Sermon Tone Analysis

Verse 3

Blessed be fthe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing gin the heavenly places,

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

Blessed be the God…

blessed: to praise

who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

blessed: to act kindly toward, divine favor.

Do we fully understand how blessed we are, how kind God is to us?

How has God acted kindly toward us?

Now more specifically, in Christ?

We are so blessed, God is so good to us.

Let’s be thankful for what God has done, and is doing in our lives.

Thank God every day.

spiritual blessing: generous gift.

Such as what?... Future inheritance, current grace and life.

Verse 4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

he chose us in him before the foundation of the world

God called us, His people, in His perfect knowledge before the foundation of the world, He called you! Incredible right?

To be redeemed, and adopted, and because of this a new way of life for us… living holy and blameless before him.

holy: pure and dedicated to God

blameless: without blame, unstained

In light of Jesus’ work, there is a natural outflow in the way we live.

Living holy and blameless, but remember, all of this is through the power of Jesus and Holy Spirit living in us.

We can’t do it on our own.

And we will fail, but guess what the good news is?

Fast forward to And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith.

And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.