INCORRUPTIBLE LOVE

EPHESIANS 6:2

Ephesians 6:21–24 ESV

21 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

1- THE MESSENGER

A-TYCHICUS WAS A FAITHFUL MESSENGER.

Colossians 4:7–9 ESV

7 Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, 9 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

COL.4:7-9

Ephesians: An Introduction and Commentary b. Final Message and Greeting (6:21–24)

Tychicus was Paul’s messenger, whom he could call a beloved brother and faithful minister (see on 3:7), and he adds now, for the last time in the letter, the phrase that conditions all true Christian living and service and relationships, in the Lord. Tychicus is the bearer of Colossians and, inevitably, of Philemon too. We first hear of him as one of the representatives of the Asian church who went with Trophimus from Greece and presumably on to Jerusalem at the end of Paul’s third missionary journey (Acts 20:4; and see also 21:29). In Titus 3:12 Paul speaks of sending him or Artemas to Titus, while 2 Timothy 4:12 refers to him as actually sent to Ephesus from Rome, by which it is implied that he was one of those who served faithfully with Paul in his last trying days.

2- THE CONCLUSION

Ephesians 6:23–24 ESV

23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

EPHESIANS 6:2

Colossians 4:7–9 ESV

7 Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts, 9 and with him Onesimus, our faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you of everything that has taken place here.

A- PEACE

COL.4:

John 16:33 ESV

33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

B-LOVE

Galatians 5:6 ESV

6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

C- GRACE

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV

9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

3- INCORRUPTIBLE LOVE

Ephesians 6:24 ESV

24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

EPHESIANS

Romans 8:38–39 ESV

38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.