The Greatest Run On Sentence Ever Written

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Monday, July 22, 2013   Jeff Lampl

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ for he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love  . . . . . . . . . . . ."
 Ephesians 1:3, 4 Ephesians 1:3-14 is all one sentence in the Greek language, the language in which the New Testament was written.  Here’s what verses three and four look like in the Greek New Testament in case for some very odd reason you’re interested.  

 Εὐλογητὸς ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατὴρ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ εὐλογήσας ἡμᾶς ἐν πάσῃ εὐλογίᾳ πνευματικῇ ἐν τοῖς ἐπουρανίοις ἐν Χριστῷ, καθὼς ἐξελέξατο ἡμᾶς ἐν αὐτῷ πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου εἶναι ἡμᾶς ἁγίους καὶ ἀμώμους κατενώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀγάπῃ,  

I actually used to be able to read this!!!  

I hope you read verses 3 to 14 today or at least sometime this week.   If you are like me you won’t understand a whole lot of it.   What, for example,  does Paul (the author of Ephesians) mean by heavenly places?   

 

But there’s hope!  Picture Paul not writing a theological thesis to be dissected, rather picture him standing up, walking around excited and amazed and kind of preaching to no one while his secretary writes down what he says.  He’s amazed almost singing or just shouting out all the incredible  things that amaze him about God.     

Basically in this long sentence Paul is saying, “WOW”.   Chosen!  Adopted!  Included in Christ!  Christ in me!  Are you kidding me?   Wow!!!!!!!   And this what YOU get when you believe!  Are you kidding me?!!

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