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Every Spiritual Blessing (Ephesians 1:1-23)
Manage episode 458138838 series 1160824
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12/29/24
Rev. Clint Smith
Every Spiritual Blessing (Ephesians 1:1-23)
As we close out the year, we hear the Apostle Paul encouraging the Church with God’s divine plan of salvation. We praise God for revealing the divine mystery of His will.
Paul addresses the saints (God’s people) who are in Christ. A key spiritual blessing is the calling to love God, along with the evidence of this calling seen in those who are set apart to be holy and faithful before Him (Galatians 5:22-23).
Paul rightly blessed God the Father first for every spiritual blessing given only to the saints, through the power of the finished work of Jesus Christ.
God foresaw the adoption of all the saints for Himself, according to His good pleasure. All saints in Jesus are saved by God’s grace. (Ephesians 2:8-10)
Redemption means to “buy out.” In Christ, saints have redemption—deliverance and salvation through His blood, which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in the forgiveness and complete pardon of our transgressions, in accordance with the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. (Romans 3:21-26)
In all wisdom and understanding, God made known to the saints the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ—regarding the fulfillment of history, when all is completed: to bring all things together in Christ, both things in the heavens and things on the earth.
In Him, saints have received God’s blessed spiritual inheritance through His sovereignty. We have been chosen according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the counsel and design of His will, so that we, who first placed our hope in Him as our Lord and Savior, may live to glorify God.
Paul preached to the saints: “In Him, you also, when you heard the gospel truth—the source of your salvation—and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, the One promised by Christ, marking you as belonging to and being protected by God.” (Romans 10:9-17)
The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of the saints’ spiritual inheritance, serving as a pledge until the redemption of God’s own purchased possession—His saints—unto the praise of His glory. (2 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; Ephesians 4:30)
The post Every Spiritual Blessing (Ephesians 1:1-23) appeared first on Town Creek Baptist Church.
214 episoade
Manage episode 458138838 series 1160824
Sermon Direct Link
12/29/24
Rev. Clint Smith
Every Spiritual Blessing (Ephesians 1:1-23)
As we close out the year, we hear the Apostle Paul encouraging the Church with God’s divine plan of salvation. We praise God for revealing the divine mystery of His will.
Paul addresses the saints (God’s people) who are in Christ. A key spiritual blessing is the calling to love God, along with the evidence of this calling seen in those who are set apart to be holy and faithful before Him (Galatians 5:22-23).
Paul rightly blessed God the Father first for every spiritual blessing given only to the saints, through the power of the finished work of Jesus Christ.
God foresaw the adoption of all the saints for Himself, according to His good pleasure. All saints in Jesus are saved by God’s grace. (Ephesians 2:8-10)
Redemption means to “buy out.” In Christ, saints have redemption—deliverance and salvation through His blood, which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in the forgiveness and complete pardon of our transgressions, in accordance with the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us. (Romans 3:21-26)
In all wisdom and understanding, God made known to the saints the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ—regarding the fulfillment of history, when all is completed: to bring all things together in Christ, both things in the heavens and things on the earth.
In Him, saints have received God’s blessed spiritual inheritance through His sovereignty. We have been chosen according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the counsel and design of His will, so that we, who first placed our hope in Him as our Lord and Savior, may live to glorify God.
Paul preached to the saints: “In Him, you also, when you heard the gospel truth—the source of your salvation—and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, the One promised by Christ, marking you as belonging to and being protected by God.” (Romans 10:9-17)
The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of the saints’ spiritual inheritance, serving as a pledge until the redemption of God’s own purchased possession—His saints—unto the praise of His glory. (2 Corinthians 1:22; 5:5; Ephesians 4:30)
The post Every Spiritual Blessing (Ephesians 1:1-23) appeared first on Town Creek Baptist Church.
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