The Effectual Working Power of the Spirit

Ephesians 3

7 Whereof I was made a Minister (refers to one who serves), according to the Gift of the Grace of God given unto me (all of this was granted to Paul strictly according to the Grace of God, which means it was not because of his merit, for he had none) by the effectual working of His power. (This is the Power of the Holy Spirit, made available to us by the Cross and our Faith in that Finished Work [Gal. 1:18].)

8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all Saints, is this Grace given (humility is made evident here, which can only be made possible by the Cross, through which Grace comes to us), that I should Preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ (the “riches of Christ” come to us exclusively by and through the Cross, and are inexhaustible, with greater and greater enlargement which will last forever);

9 And to make all men see (to bring to light something which had previously been hidden) what is the fellowship of the Mystery (could be translated, “the fellowship of the dispensation of the Revelation of the Mystery”; in other words, the Mystery is no more, having now been revealed), which from the beginning of the world has been hid in God (proclaims to us the fact that this was not a new kind of action on the part of God, forced upon Him by the developments in human history; the Cross was His Plan from before the Foundation of the World [1 Pet. 1:18–20]), Who created all things by Jesus Christ (God the Father officiates; God the Son orchestrates; God the Holy Spirit executes):

10 To the intent that now unto the Principalities and Powers in Heavenly places (concerns Righteous Angels) might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God (presents the Church proclaiming to the Angelic Host a part of the Wisdom of God not previously known to the Angels),

11 According to the eternal purpose (the purpose of the ages) which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord (God has formed a Plan which is Eternal in reference to the Salvation of men, and the Plan is centered on the Lord Jesus and what He did at the Cross):