"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just
as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be
holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as
sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to
the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the
Beloved." Ephesians 1:3-6 NKJV
Is there anything in want from what we have received from God and the
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? Nothing! Paul, the authorized spokesman of the
Lord Jesus Christ, said in the Epistle to the Ephesians that we have received
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. Yes, God has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
What is every spiritual blessing? Let's see what it is. First, He chose
us in Him before the foundation of the world [the creation of the universe]
that we should be holy and blameless before Him. The God’s pronouncement makes
us be eyeballed with full of awe and wonder in hearing such a breathtaking
statement that God chose us in the Son Jesus Christ before the creation of the
world to be holy and blameless in His sight. It is almost impossible to
believe. But it is true. That is what God the Father did for us. Why? The
answer is "in love." Our Heavenly Father delights the high calling
for His beloved children to be holy [whole, fully acceptable] and blameless [sinful
yet handling sin rightly through repentance, knowing the fact that we died to
sin and alive to God], even before the creation of the world. That is the love
of Father which is unchanging, glorious, just, fulfilling, overflowing, and
pouring out eternally.
Our Father, in love, also predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus
Christ to Himself. Why did He do that? Again, it is His delight and glory to
accept us as His sons according to the good pleasure of His will to the praise
of the glory of His grace by which He made us accepted in the Beloved Son,
Jesus Christ. The Father delights His children to have the eternal inheritance
as sons in Christ Jesus. It is His pleasure and will for us to be what He is. The
adoption as sons by Jesus Christ wonderfully demonstrates the praise of the
glory of His grace. Our God is forever praiseworthy of His glorious grace that
he made us fully and totally accepted in the Beloved Son.
Although we do not feel it what has happened for us in Christ Jesus, it
is true. Yes, it is really given for us as the gifts of God when we entered
into His grace and mercy in Jesus Christ our Lord. Verse 3 says every spiritual
blessing is in the heavenly places. What does it mean the heavenly places? It
does not indicate some remote place in the universe or some faraway location in
space. No. It indicates the place where the Almighty God is in power and
authority in the visible and invisible realms. There is no place else in
heavens and on earth and under the earth where God does not reign. So, we are
living in the heavenly places now.
That is what our Father God did for us in the heavenly places. Is there still
anything in want? He chose, predestined, adopted, and made us holy and
blameless and accepted in the Beloved Son Jesus Christ. That is what we are in
Jesus Christ. We contributed nothing to earn it. All these glorious riches of
being chosen and predestined and adopted as the sons of God are the gifts from
the hands of living God through the faith in the Son Jesus Christ whom the
Father sent. Are you deeply appreciating the full riches of inheritance of God in
Jesus Christ? Or are you not?
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