BIBLE STUDY EPHESI. Ch1 WK2 Part 2️⃣ 9.17.24 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Christ’s BlessIngs

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💥(NOTES A)💥 Revivaltime Restoration Worship Center Tuesday Evening BIBLE STUDY SERIES: ✅Book Of Ephesians Ch 1️⃣✅ WEEK 2 PART 2️⃣ 📍 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Spiritual Blessings In Christ 📍 ●Paul's Explanation of The 15 Spiritual Blessings We Have In Christ Continues● ●Holy and Blameless (v.4) ● ●In His Love (v.4) ● ●Predestined to Adoption (v.5) ● ●Accepted in to the Beloved● ●The Basis Of Adoption● With Bishop Worrell Hylton Septembet 17, 2024 ●Paul's Explanation of The 15 Spiritual Blessings We Have In Christ Continues● God made a promise to open the doors of access to the whole world to belong in relationship to him. But our election calls for us to continue in faith toward the one who called us. ●2. Holy and Blameless (v.4) This is the second heavenly blessing. Notice how this fits what Paul goes on to teach. He does not end the sentence that he just chose people. ●Notice that he chose us to be holy and blameless before him. God has not elected us to remain sinners. The process does not stop with the election. God has not selected us to continue in sin. God has called us to be holy. Israel was called to be holy and blameless and now we are that chosen people (Deuteronomy 18:13; Exodus 19:6). ●Therefore, the test of our election is the holiness of our lives. We do not belong to the elect if we are not living holy lives before him. ●Notice that the apostle Paul, in a parallel text, makes the same point to the Colossians: And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. (Colossians 1:21-23 ESV)● ●In Christ, you are holy and blameless. This means you are fit to serve Him and worship Him despite your shortcomings.● God enjoys you when you approach Him and He gladly moves through your life to touch others, not because of your own righteousness, but because of the righteousness of Christ that has been imputed or attributed to you. ●The apostle Peter puts it this way. Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:10-11 NIV) ●The apostle Paul instructed the Corinthians in the same manner. Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? - unless indeed you fail to meet the test! (2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV) ●We have been called/elected/chosen to be holy and blameless before him. This happens by continuing firmly in the faith and not shifting away from the gospel which called us. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:4-6 ESV) ●3. . In His Love (v.4) In Christ you stand in agape or unconditional love. You cannot earn it. Today, you are unconditionally loved in Christ. Have you received it? Make the following confession today, “Jesus, I receive your unconditional love.” ●4. Predestined to Adoption (v.5) God has predetermined to call you His own in Christ. -Predestined- The word “predestined” means what it sounds like - “to decide beforehand, mark out beforehand, to determine beforehand.” God decided in advance. I want us to stop and think about this statement for a minute. ●People want to know the purpose of their lives. Why are we here?● ●God has a purpose for you and every human being before you were ever created. That purpose is to be adopted as his children through Jesus Christ. Our destiny is to enter the family of God so that we might become children of God. God created you to belong to the family in Christ.● ●We were predestined to belong to Jesus. That is what you have been called to. God chose us to be in Christ and decided to bring us into relationship with himself through adoption. To state this another way: God determined in advance that those who are in Christ would be his people.●

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💥(NOTES B)💥 Revivaltime Restoration Worship Center Tuesday Evening BIBLE STUDY SERIES: ✅Book Of Ephesians Ch 1️⃣✅ WEEK 2 PART 2️⃣ 📍 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Spiritual Blessings In Christ 📍 ●Paul's Explanation of The 15 Spiritual Blessings We Have In Christ Continues● ●Holy and Blameless (v.4) ● ●In His Love (v.4) ● ●Predestined to Adoption (v.5) ● ●Accepted in to the Beloved● ●The Basis Of Adoption● With Bishop Worrell Hylton Septembet 17, 2024 ●5. Accepted in the Beloved (v.6) You are not rejected. You are not an outcast. You are not unworthy of approval. The Creator of the universe accepts you in Christ. You have been relationally reconciled in Christ and are pleasing to God. You might not have health in all of your relationships right now, but, in Christ, there is nothing between you and God today. Paul says that we were predestined for adoption as his children. Adoption carries so many significant truths. ●First, the one adopting pays a great price. The cost for our adoption to become children of God was the blood of Jesus. His blood is the means that secured our adoption. The highest price that could ever be conceived, the death of the Son of God, was what was necessary to adopt us. ●Second, the one being adopted cannot will the adoption to happen. If God did not want to adopt us sinners as his children, then we could not have been adopted. Third, adoption means you are part of a new, permanent family. There is nothing temporary about adoption. You are given all the rights and privileges of the family. It is as if you are born into the family by blood once you are adopted. God signed the adoption papers for you with the blood of Christ. Your identity is secured in this new family. Before we could do anything, before we even existed, God chose to adopt us. ●THE BASIS OF ADOPTION● ●Why did God do this for us? Notice the beginning of the sentence which is found at the end of verse 4: “In love he predestined us for adoption.” The basis of our adoption is his own love for us. Can we begin to see and try to understand the depths of God’s love for us? Can we try to get our minds around the idea that God is acting for us, like a parent on the basis of love? ●God’s love for you is deeper than you have for your own children.● ●God has chosen to adopt you. Listen to how the apostle John proclaimed this desire for our hearts.● See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! (1 John 3:1 NIV) Do we see this love? ●The second reason God predestined us for adoption was because of “the purpose of his will.●” I think the NKJV has a good interpretation, “according to the good pleasure of his will.” Our adoption was the plan of God and that plan came from his own good pleasure. This is what God desired to do and God accomplished that will. ●Salvation is not some accident or afterthought on the part of God. His purpose and desire was always to draw you to himself. God wanted you to be his child.●