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*Lesson 14*
*/Trinity’s Plan of Redemption/*
*/Eph 1:3-14/*
verses 3-14 make up the longest sentence in the Greek NT.
The subject is the Triunity of God, the roles each person of the Trinity has in the Plan of Redemption, and the spiritual blessings given to His saints.
Why a single sentence to explain the Plan of Redemption?
Because Paul thinks of the Plan of Redemption as a single thought.
The plan of Redemption is so complex and interrelated that Paul can only think of the Plan of Redemption as a single complex of events.
Thus, Paul communicates the Plan of Redemption from the perspective of the Trinity.
verse 3 is a summary statement of vv.
4-14.
In other words, if we took v. 3 and unpacked it you would find that it contains everything in vv.
4-14 and actually much more.
Put another way, if you want to summarize vv.
4-14 you would simply quote v. 3. v. 3 corresponds to the box and vv.
4-14 are what is inside the box.
This is a very Hebrew way of communicating.
You summarize what you are going to say and then you expound it.
*/Blessed is the God/*…why is God blessed?
He is blessed for two things.
First, His intrinsic character…who and what God is (SRJLOOOIE).
Second, for what this God has done for His saints (*/because/*, v. 4).
What has He done for His saints?
He has given them */every spiritual blessing/*.
Next we find that not only is God blessed but that God
*/has blessed us/*.
This is a constative aorist meaning that this took place */before the foundation of the world /*(cf.
Eph.
1:4).
God blessed us before the foundation of the world.
Not only are we to bless God for every spiritual blessing but God */has blessed us/* with every spiritual blessing.
The word for */blessed/* is /eulogeo/ and it means “to speak well of” “to say good things about”.
It’s the word we get “eulogy” from (e.g.
funerals).
Why does God say good things about us?
Because we are in union with the 2nd person of the Trinity.
Not because of anything we have done but because of Christ.
What have we been blessed with?
*/with every spiritual blessing/*…if you are a believer here tonight you already possess every possible */spiritual blessing/*.
*/Spiritual/* indicates the nature of the blessing.
It’s */spiritual/* in nature not physical.
Israel under Joshua was given every physical blessing, particularly the land.
According to Josh.
1:3, everywhere the Israelites stepped foot the physical land had already been given to them.
Eph.
1:3 therefore is the NT complement of Josh.
1:3.
Members of the NT Church have every spiritual blessing.
The Book of Joshua is therefore the OT corollary to Ephesians.
You as a believer today have every spiritual blessing.
However, even though these spiritual blessings have been given to you there are still enemies to overcome.
Israel had physical enemies, the land was full of enemies that they had to overcome if they were to enjoy the land.
We have spiritual enemies, we do not fight against flesh and blood */but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness /*(Eph.
6:11-12).
Israel would be victorious if they trusted God’s promises and the only way they could trust the promises was to meditate on the word of God.
So, for Israel, the way of victory was by the word of God (Josh.
1:8).
For you to be victorious you must take the same road Israel took to victory.
That road is the word of God (Eph.
1:17-19).
You cannot overcome your enemies if you don’t take in the word of God.
But where are these blessings located?
*/in the heavenlies in Christ/*…this phrase refers to the source of our spiritual blessings.
The spiritual benefits come from heaven and are for the believers united with Christ (1:2b), who has ascended into heaven (1:20; 2:6).
Because we are united to Christ and Christ is seated in the heavenlies then we partake of all that Christ has given us.
Thus, our spiritual blessings can be said to be */in the heavenlies/*.
This does not mean that they are not for the here and now on earth.
They very much are, but they find their source in heaven.
Why is God blessed?
We already said it was because of all the spiritual blessings He has given us.
Here’s the verse that proves that.
It should begin by saying…
v. 4
*/because He chose us/* rather than */just as He chose us/*.
*/because /*marks the beginning of the actual spiritual blessings we have been given.
The first spiritual blessing mentioned is */He chose us/*.
This refers to election.
The verb is used 21 times in the NT.
We looked at every usage including the controversial Luke 9:35.
We made 5 concluding observations: /First/, we find that in all cases a choice was made out of a multiplicity of known choices (cf.
Lk. 6:13; John 15:16, 19; Acts 1:24).
The choice is not arbitrary but based on knowledge.
/Second/, just because one option was not chosen does not mean that the unchosen option is disliked (cf.
Acts 6:5; 15:22, 25).
/Third/, the fact that the middle voice is always used (with possible exception of Luke 9:35) indicates a personal interest.
The middle voice is as personal as the language can express because it means literally “to choose for oneself”.
The middle “calls attention to the whole subject being concerned in the action” (Mark 13:20; Luke 10:42; 14:7; John 15:16).
/Fourth/, in most of the contexts the subject is God.
Of the 21 instances, 16 of them have the subject as God or Jesus.[1]
/Fifth/, election is clearly a loving choice.
Election doesn’t have anything to do with people going to hell.
Sin has one destiny, God another.
There are 3 views of the doctrine of election.
/First/, God chose those He foreknew would accept Christ.
This view states that God looked down through the corridors of time and saw who would respond and He elected them.
/Second/, God chose Christ and those who believe in Christ are therefore elected.
Christ is the sphere in which God’s elective purposes take place.
This is called corporate or group election.
This is reading into the passage more than the grammar allows.
It says God chose us, not God chose Christ.
It may say God chose Christ elsewhere, but Christ was chosen for a specific service, not salvation.
The context here is the plan of salvation.
I think this is only a partial answer to election.
/Third/, God, before time, chose individuals to be saved.
It seems to both be reasonable and in line with Scripture to teach that individual election is the basis for group election.
Individual people make up a group.
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