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  • Blessings

    Eph 1:3 NLT

    All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.

    Notice that God has blessed us. This has already been done for those who are in Christ Jesus. We need not seek the blessings of God because He has already blessed us with all possible blessings.

    Because we are united with Christ.

  • When I Think of All This

    • What is Paul thinking of?
    • Is it important?
      • Eph 3:1 Eph 3:14 Repeated thought! Important?
      • We are blessed with every spiritual blessing Eph 1:3
        • Because we are united with Christ.
      • God Chose us to be holy and without fault in His eyes ( We are innocent) 1:4
      • God has adopted us 1:5
        • Through Christ Jesus
        • It gave Him pleasure
      • He is rich in kindness and grace
        • He purchased our freedom with the blood of Christ
        • forgave our sins
        • Showered His kindness on us
          • along with wisdom
          • and understanding
      • We are under the authority of Christ 1:10
      • We received an inheritance 1:11
      • God makes everything work according to HIs plan.
      • We are identified as His own 1:13
      • He has given us His Spirit
      • We are guaranteed this inheritance.
      • He purchase us so that we can praise and glorify Him.
    • This is our identity.
      • Understand the power of this
      • Paul is praying that we understand this
      • That we understand the implications of who we are because of who’s we are.
    • Christ is now the authority of everything
      • Both in this world
      • and in the one to come.
    • We are made compete in Christ
    • Chapter 2
    • We are alive with Christ
    • We are free from sin
      • We used to be under the power of sin
      • now we are free
      • We used to obey Satan
      • Now we can obey Christ
    • We are seated in the heavenly realms with Christ 2:6
      • Because we are united with Christ
    • We are an eternal testimony of God’s great mercy and kindness
    • We are saved totally by God’s gracious gift. We can not save ourselves
    • We are citizens with the people of Israel (True Jews, sons of Abraham)
    • We have been brought near to God
    • We believers, globally are one with each other and with Christ
    • The Law is done away with. 2:15
    • We are reconciled to God with all believers 2:16
    • We are members of God’s family 2:19
    • We are God’s house 2:20

    3:14-21

    • Paul is praying that we would truly understand and receive all of this
      • That we would be empowered by the Spirit of God
      • From His unlimited resources
      • Through His Spirit
    • That we would understand the Love of God for us
      • How great it is
      • That we would experience it
      • Then we would be made complete
        • With the fullness of life
        • and the power that comes from God
    • God wants us to understand who we are
    • God wants us to understand Who’s we are
    • God gets all the glory for what He does in and through us
    • If we don’t understand who we are we can’t bring glory to God
    • If we understand who we are and walk that:
      • What would we do
      • How would we behave
      • what would life be like?