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It is understandable that one may say `I do not feel this mighty power'; `Should I not
be conscious of it if such a power was associated with my Christian life?' In chapter 2:
we read that the unsaved are energized by a mighty spiritual power, yet at the same time
such walk according to the age of this world, that is, they are just ordinary people. They
fulfil their own desires, and are certainly not conscious they are being inwrought by the
spirit of the Prince of the power of the air. In the same way, we who now seek to walk
worthy of our high calling, who seek to fulfil the will of God, who are guided by His
written Word, we are not always conscious of the power that alone makes such an effort
possible or acceptable.
The doxology that has been interrupted by this testimony to the mighty power that is
related to its prayer is resumed by the repetition of the words `Unto Him'.
"Unto Him be glory by the church and by Christ Jesus."
A little previously the Apostle had written that through the church heavenly beings
were learning the manifold wisdom of God (Eph. 3: 10), and in chapter 2: 7 he reveals
that this church when raised and seated in the heavenlies will show in the ages to come
God's exceeding riches of grace in His kindness toward them in Christ Jesus.
What we may do now in our small measure `whether we eat or drink or whatsoever we
do', we shall do then in a fuller degree. This is indeed `fullness'. It will be so for the
very earth itself. The marginal reading of Isa. 6: 3 being:
"His glory is the fullness of the whole earth."
When heaven and earth are united and the great dwelling of God is at last complete,
Psa. 29: 9 will be fulfilled `Every whit of it uttereth glory'.
"For all the generations of the age of the ages."
What this statement indicates is perhaps beyond our present abilities to grasp. When
we read "A Hebrew of the Hebrews" or a "Pharisee of the Pharisees" we know that we
are reading of something superlative. So here this represents the climax and crown of
time.
In Gen. 2: 4 we read of the `generation of the heaven and earth', a history which
takes Gen. 2: 5 to 4: 26 to unfold. Within this short compass Sin, Death, Curse. The
Two seeds and finally Seth are introduced. Here in Ephesians is the glorious opposite.
Sin and death will be unknown: no curse will ever fall. The false seed will have been
gathered and removed as the tares are, and God will be all in all.