It was received by grace (vv. 14-15). When he was Saul of Tarsus, Paul knew little of the grace of God. He persecuted the church and sought to destroy it. When Paul met Jesus Christ on the Damascus road (Acts 9), he experienced the grace of God. It was God’s grace that saved him, and it was God’s grace that called him and made him an apostle (1 Cor. 15:8-11). “We have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name” (Rom. 1:5). In Ephesians 3, Paul explained his ministry to the Gentiles in greater detail.