We have been blessed in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
God has chosen us in Christ before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight adopting us as sons.
Ephesians 1:4-5
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will
The term used here relates to paying the required ransom to God for the release of a person from bondage. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross paid that price for every elect person enslaved by sin, buying them out of the slave market of iniquity.
Ephesians 1:7
In whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace.
God’s own Spirit comes to indwell the believer and secures and preserves his eternal salvation.
Ephesians 1:13-14
In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory.
By Grace Through Faith
Ephesians 2:1-5
And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature the children of wrath even as others. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us Even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us together with Christ by grace ye are saved.
It is by grace we have been saved through God's gift of faith.
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God.
Redeemed sinners not only become heavenly citizens but also members of God’s own family.
Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God.
He is able to do more than we could ever ask or think.
Ephesians 3:20-21
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages world without end. Amen.
The New Man. Our new identity in Christ was created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness .
Ephesians 4:20-24
But ye have not so learned Christ If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts And be renewed in the spirit of your mind And that ye put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
The Holy Spirit has SEALED you.
Ephesians 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
We were once darkness, but now we are light in the Lord.
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Quench the fiery darts of the enemy to guard against temptation.
Ephesians 6:16-18
Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
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