John Piper | – Ephesians 3:14–19 // Part 1 // Why Does Paul Pray After Teaching?


Prayer comes before and after teaching because God must reveal the truth to us for doctrine to have any lasting effect on us.

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  1. The way that Paul breaks off his train of thought in 3:1 and then resumes it again in 3:14 helps to show how human the Bible is. Of course, it is also thoroughly divine. But it is still thoroughly human too.

    There are some Christians who think that God dictated the Bible and the authors just wrote down what they heard. Passages like this show that, at least usually, the author was going through the same kind of thought processes that any author does when they write.

  2. i spiritually bow my knees in reverential awe unto Christ Jesus always and in all ways.
    Indeed, reverential posture IS desired (as led by the Holy Spirit) for each occasion we enter into that endeavors a bodily and spoken (audible) expression of prayer

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