Ephesians Part 12 (Wonderful Work of Salvation)

INTRO: I want to change the order of the words of our text just slightly. I have mentioned to you already that I believe that the words in love at the end of verse 4 belong to the following verse. The Greek language may differ from English in sentence structure. Our English sentence pattern is generally subject verb, or subject, verb then object. The Greek sentence has no such pattern. They would place first that which they wanted to stress. The reason why the words 'in love' precede the verbal, 'having predestined us' is, I believe, because stress is being placed on how, or the context in which God predestined us. He predestined us in love.