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In Christ We Have It All (Ephesians 1:3-14)
Terry Sharbaugh, September 18, 2011Part of the It’s All About Glory series, preached at a Sunday service
Getting Started:
As we start a new year, we pursue a path of building a foundation with the Lord that will carry us through both good days and hard ones. Ask yourself, “when I’m spiritually dry, or when I’m feeling like life is wearing me down, what does God give to me that will let me rise above my feelings or circumstances?” It seems like often we live lives that are a shadow of what God has planned for us, and often the reason for that is we don’t have the right foundation built in our souls. Ephesians starts with a bang, and reminds us just how blessed a life we live (or should live) in Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 1:3-14
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. (ESV (http://www NULL.esv NULL.org))
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