Ephesians 1:15-16

15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your

faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the
saints,
15 Vì thế tôi cũng, sau khi tôi đã nghe về
đức tin của anh em trong Chúa Jesus, và
tình yêu thương với mọi thánh đồ,
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16 Cease not to give thanks for you,
making mention of you in my prayers;
16 Không ngừng dâng những lời tạ ơn
vì anh em, nhắc tới anh em trong những
lời cầu nguyện của tôi;
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FOR HIS WORK OF GRACE
Ngợi Khen Đức Chúa Trời
vì Công Việc Ân Điển của Ngài
Ephesians 1:15-16

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 The word “wherefore – vì thế”
points us back to all the spiritual
blessings that are in the last
sentence.

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 The faith of the Ephesians in the Lord
and their “love unto all the saints” are
the results of the spiritual blessings they
had received from God.

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Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, and remember, that
by the space of three years I ceased
not to warn every one night and day
with tears.
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I. God’s Work of Grace in their Faith

Công Việc Ân Điển của
Đức Chúa Trời trong Đức Tin của họ

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Genuine salvation requires the

sinner to believe Jesus Christ as
personal Saviour and to obey Him
as Lord

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Genuine salvation is both believing

and obeying.
The Bible does not teach that Jesus
can be your Saviour without being
your Lord
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Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

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Romans 14:8-9

8 For whether we live, we live unto the

Lord; and whether we die, we die unto
the Lord: whether we live therefore, or
die, we are the Lord's.
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Romans 14:8-9

9 For to this end Christ both died, and

rose, and revived, that he might be Lord
both of the dead and living.

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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

2We give thanks to God always for

you all, making mention of you in
our prayers;
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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

3Remembering without ceasing your work

of faith, and labour of love, and patience of
hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight
of God and our Father;

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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

4 Knowing, brethren beloved, your election

of God.

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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

5For our gospel came not unto you in word

only, but also in power, and in the Holy
Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know
what manner of men we were among you
for your sake.
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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

6And ye became followers of us, and of the

Lord, having received the word in much
affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

7 So that ye were ensamples to all that

believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

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I Thessalonians 1:2-10
8For from you sounded out the word of the
Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia,
but also in every place your faith to God-
ward is spread abroad; so that we need not
to speak anything.

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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

9For they themselves shew of us what

manner of entering in we had unto you, and
how ye turned to God from idols to serve
the living and true God;
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I Thessalonians 1:2-10

10And to wait for his Son from heaven,

whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus,
which delivered us from the wrath to come.

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I Thessalonians 1:3
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and
labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
vì trước mặt Đức Chúa Trời, là Cha, chúng tôi nhớ mãi
về công-việc của đức-tin anh em, sự lao nhọc của lòng
yêu-thương anh em, sự kiên nhẫn về niềm hy vọng của
anh em trong Đức Chúa Jêsus-Christ chúng ta,
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I Thessalonians 1:6
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord,
having received the word in much affliction, with
joy of the Holy Ghost:
Anh em cũng đã là những người đi theo của chúng
tôi và của Chúa, lấy sự vui-vẻ của Đức Thánh-
Linh mà tiếp-nhận lời giữa lúc nhiều sự khốn-khó,
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I Thessalonians 1:2-10
9For they themselves shew of us what manner of
entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to
God from idols to serve the living and true God;
Vả, mọi người đều thuật lại thế nào anh em đã tiếp-
đãi chúng tôi, và thế nào đã trở lại cùng Đức Chúa
Trời, bỏ hình-tượng đặng thờ Đức Chúa Trời hằng
sống và chân-thật,
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I Thessalonians 1:2-10
And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he
raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered
us from the wrath to come.
để chờ-đợi Con Ngài từ trên trời, là Đức Chúa
Jêsus mà Ngài đã khiến từ kẻ chết sống lại, tức là
Đấng giải-cứu chúng ta khỏi cơn thạnh-nộ ngày
sau.
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Yet with all the spiritual and human

opposition against them, the Christians in
Ephesus remained steadfast and faithful to
the Lord Jesus Christ.

Their faith was God’s work of grace

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