It is always good to be able to remember who we are and what we have in Christ, so that we can warm our love for our Lord and sharpen our understanding of the reason for our faith, explore a small section of the scriptures. we have riches that we obtain when we are in Christ, revealed in the first chapter of the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians.
Ephesians 1. 3
- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Who blessed us with all kinds of spiritual blessings in the heavenly regions in Christ.
Sheep, being blessed by God in heavenly regions is an indescribable wealth!
Eternal life is the inaugural blessing of our Christian life. To be in the heavenly regions, you need the passport to eternal life in Christ. This is just a glimpse of how blessed we are. Heavenly regions are those where God lives and when we are with Christ, our refuge is in heaven where we are blessed.
Ephesians 1. 4a
Just as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and unspotted before him;
Think about what it’s like to be elected, Thought?If we had to think about the standards of this world, we would be chosen for something we have done or for a certain quality of our character, or for something we have to offer. But our Lord chose us of his own free will. , without seeing in us anything that could be good; He chose us to separate us from evil, he chose us to be holy, and even more so to be irrepressible, perfect before the Almighty; we were not chosen because of our miserable abilities, no, we were not, we were chosen in Christ.
Ephesians 1. 4b-5
And in love, he predestined us for him, for the adoption of children, for Jesus Christ, according to the will of his will.
And when he chose us, he predestined us to join his great family, the family of the king of kings, the saints, the faithful, we entered the family of the Eternal Father, we entered the Kingdom of the Father who adopted us. without looking at our sins, our impurities, our little lives more or less, because it sees us through the lens of the cross of Christ, the Righteous. Would you put someone in your family?Would you treat that person you came out of the dark like a legitimate child and give your child life so that person could have life?Would you like to give your inheritance to that person? Probably not, but our Savior did it for us: He saved us from his own life to place us at the king of nations table and eat with him the feast of the Lamb.
Ephesians 1. 6, 7, 8
Praise the glory of his grace, which he gave us freely in the beloved, in whom we have redemption, by his blood, the remission of sins, according to the richness of his grace, which God poured out upon us with all wisdom and wisdom. Prudence. .
Redemption consists of freeing a person with a ransom. Christ paid for our freedom. We are free from our sins. We have already received the redemption of evil and one of the benefits of this is that we are free from our sins, although we have received other benefits, being redeemed from sins is the basis of the other blessings of redemption because as sinners we have been set apart from God’s presence.
Ephesians 1: 13-14
In whom you too, after hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, having also believed in him, have been sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise; which is a pledge of our inheritance, until the redemption of his property, in praise of his glory.
God put his mark on us, his seal of king when we put our faith in Christ. The seal God has placed upon us is His Holy Spirit. This seal is the guarantee of our inheritance in final redemption at the end of time. Christ, we are sealed by the Holy Spirit, who is the pledge of our heritage.
Blessed, chosen, predestined to be adopted as daughters, we have the redemption and remission of sins and have been sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the pledge of our inheritance.
Go ahead, sheep!