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*Blessing Inventory: Redeemed in the Son*
*Ephesians 1:7-12*
A story is told about media mogul William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst spent a fortune collecting fine works of art.
One day, he read about some valuable pieces of art and decided he must add them to his collection.
His agent was sent abroad to locate and purchase these items.
Months later, the agent returned.
He told Hearst that the items had been found.
They were being stored in Hearst’s own warehouse.
He had purchased them years before.
Like Mr. Hearst, there are believers who are seeking something more when they already have a warehouse full of spiritual blessings which they have long forgotten.
In the first section of Ephesians one, we are drawn into a blessing inventory.
I remind you of the introduction of this section found in verse 3. /Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ…/
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Last week we noticed the first magnificent blessing mentioned here.
We were chosen by the Father before the foundation of the world by an act of His gracious will to the praise of His grace.
Today, we continue our blessing inventory by noting that we are not only chosen by the Father, but redeemed in the Son.
Look again at vv. 7-12.
Here we find that what the Father planned in election, the Son purchased in redemption.
As we look at this text, we need to approach it as though we are opening a treasure vault to rejoice in what we have been given.
I.
In Christ we are set free and forgiven (vv.
7-10).
A.
We have redemption in Christ.
1. Redemption is the deliverance from bondage which
is accomplished by the payment of a ransom.
a.
Redemption is our present possession.
We
/ have/ redemption.
b.
This means that we are free from the slavery
of sin.
1) the penalty of sin (justification)
2) the power of sin (sanctification)
3) the presence of sin (glorification)
2. The price of our redemption is Christ’s blood.
a.
Through his blood means that it was the
sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross which
accomplished our redemption.
B.
We have forgiveness in Christ.
1. Forgiveness (/aphesin/) is a word which means to
release from an obligation.
In this connection, it is
used to speak of the release from the guilt of sin.
It
is an official pardon from God.
2. The forgiveness is of trespasses (/paraptomaton/).
It
refers to specific false steps wherein we transgress
against the law and will of God.
It is not sin viewed
as a controlling power but specific acts of sin.
3. So, in Christ’s redemptive work, we are released
From the guilt of each wrong step we have made
Against God’s law.
C.
Our freedom and forgiveness are results of God’s grace.
1. It is according to the riches of His grace.
We did
not earn our freedom from sin.
We did not earn our
release from guilt.
It is only through the grace of
God that we have these blessings.
2.
This grace was lavished on us.
The term means to
have a superabundance of something.
It is used to
describe the baskets of food collected after Jesus
fed the 5000.
So, this is not value menu grace.
This
is buffet grace.
It is superabundant, overflowing,
more than enough, kind of grace.
3.
This grace provides to us spiritual wisdom and
insight or understanding.
The wisdom is the truth
about Christ in the gospel (1 Cor.
1:24).
Insight is
our ability to understand that truth.
APPLICATION: Dear believer, by the lavish grace of God you have been released from the guilt of your sins.
The enemy will from time to time try to hold your sin up in your face and discourage you.
He will try to paralyze you with accusations and reminders of your sins.
Luther wrote that when the devil tried to vex him by facing him with his sins, he would say, “"Dear devil, I have heard the record.
But I have committed far more sins which do not even stand in your record.
Put them down too. . . . .
" Luther taunted the devil because he understood the power of Christ’s redemptive work.
Jesus died for our sins, all of our sins, and freed us from the guilt and penalty of them.
When Satan faces you with your sins, you simply remind him of Ephesians 1:7.
You are free because Jesus paid your debt.
His infinitely precious blood was spilled for your sins.
He bought you.
He freed you from sin’s slavery.
As Charles Wesley wrote, “He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free.
His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood avails for me.”
D.
Our freedom and forgiveness are part of God’s sweeping
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