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Review
Part 1: - Redemption of the Gift (The gift of salvation, are we ready to receive it?)
Part 2: - Redemption of the sinner (Our redemption is only made possible by Christ Jesus)
Part 3: - Redemption of the Church (The Church only begins to reusable what it was intended for when we experience God Horizontally through the congregation.)
We often focus to much on the vertical when we are also called to focus in on the horizontal as the Gospel is expressed throughout our lives.
Intro
What if…?
This was different in my life / I could accomplish this or that / I had “this” in my life.
God’s blessings as seen in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: What if being a Christian is less about what I can do for God, and more about what God has done for me?
What if my purpose and identity weren’t built around the things I can produce but the things I have received?
What if God’s promise is true and I already have every spiritual blessing?
Maybe then… I could re-discover joy.
God’s blessings as seen in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: What if being a Christian is less about what I can do for God, and more about what God has done for me?
What if my purpose and identity weren’t built around the things I can produce but the things I have received?
What if God’s promise is true and I already have every spiritual blessing?
Maybe then… I could re-discover joy.
God’s blessings as seen in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: What if being a Christian is less about what I can do for God, and more about what God has done for me?
What if my purpose and identity weren’t built around the things I can produce but the things I have received?
What if God’s promise is true and I already have every spiritual blessing?
Maybe then… I could re-discover joy.
Opening Prayer
Palm Sunday - Can you imagine being there
John 12:
Not knowing what the people were doing, they had hope.
There is hope of assuring in a new era.
What if this was the Messiah?
What if our lives could be better?
What if we could find true joy and hope?
I believe the book of Eph opens up by yes defining the Savour but asking the deeper question… Are we open to the gift of the Saviour?
Eph 1-
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
Eph 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
v3 Blessings - eulogia
Rooted in:
Lego - to say or to tell
logos - word or message
eulogeo - praise
in the Greek The only worthy blessing is that of God’s blessings.
People are blessed when they receive His blessing.
Pleasure - eudokia what is Pleasing to God
v4 Time Some would use this passage to highlight a type of theological stance of Election.
I personal hold the stance of universal election, that all are called to be in relationship with Christ, yet sadly some chose not to be adopted into the family of God.
Pleasure - eudokia what is Pleasing to God
All history, all people, all that exists in heaven and on earth are included in his purpose.
Past, present and future are all embraced in this doxology
Pleasing to God
Insight into God’s purposes
Insight into God’s purposes
Eph 1:6-
v5 Pleasure - eudokia what is Pleasing to God
Sonship - adoption
Picture of Grant … and his Son
So we are are able to receive the fullness of God’s blessing which was intended from the beginning through the adoption process of being adopted into the family of God, and this brings great pleasure to God
v6 Glory I would compare this with Moses experience on the mountain side.
Grace - He freely bestowed His loved love & Grace on us
The Key is found in Christ!
v7 Christ Redemption can be found all the way throughout scripture.
We just came out of looking at Nehemiah, Israel’s unfaithfulness and Israel’s redemption out of slavery.
How much more is Christ our redeemer.
There is a cost… Immediately there there is a talk of Cost… through His blood
Redemption was a slavery term, to redeem something beyond personal redemption, it had to be done for you.
Redemption from Sin, was a calling into a life without that ailment.
Horns In Israel called a Rham’s horn… calling into Holiness
v8 Lavish - it does not matter how unworthy we are, we are welcomed at the family table.
Eph 1:13-14
Hearing and Believing
The distinction is Hearing and the Gospel is just step 1 of two steps
We can hear the horn bast, but do we respond?
In the New Testament different religious groups would tattoo on their skin the group they followed
This is what I think Paul had in mind when he said this about Jesus
Never the less it is not a seal or tattoo or as the jews falsely assumed circumcision that sealed our salvation
Rather the Holy spirit
Inheritance Going back to verse three where it talked about all the good blessing come from God, this is the inheritance as a child of God that we are promised.
But it seams to suggest that this is not fully realized, we are not fully free from the bondages of this world until we are in heaven.
Eph 1:12-
Eph 1:15-18
v18 Openness Are our eyes open and our hearts open to what God wants to say to us?
An open hand to receive
As Easter approaches what is your posture?
Are you like the one’s who came out to the Road to meet Jesus or are you to busy, over scheduled?
What is your posture?
Are you open to the gift?
Communion
Palm Sunday
Combined with and overlapping of the triumphant entry and the call of the shophare, a call to holyness and revrence!
Is Your Heart open to gratitude, a heart of reception.
Communion.
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