Enriched with Utterance and Knowledge

The end of the work of the Gospel is to restore man to fellowship with God. One again, the apostle is striking a theme that will be developed more fully in the epistle.

The Gospel is not primarily about knowledge, eloquence, and gifts: it is about fellowship with the Triune God.

Man’s problem is his alienation from God—it is not lack of power, or lack of knowledge, or lack of gifts from God: it is alienation. This alienation comes from one source: the sin of Adam, for all his seed is born in sin and under the curse of God. But what was lost in the first Adam, is gained for us in the last Adam, Jesus Christ.