Part 1| “The Blessing of Being Chosen”

The book of Ephesians is the Christians’ roadmap for life in a world that’s not our home. We are strange to this world. We are not of this world. This book repeatedly calls us to think of ourselves as different. For that is what we are. And we rejoice in that fact because HE has made us that way. Christian, instead of focusing on how the world may not welcome you, rejoice that heaven embraces you. You are blessed in the heavenly places with every spiritual blessing in Christ. You are “Blessed Strangers.”

From Ephesians 1

Ephesians 4-6 is about we .

Ephesians 1-3 is about we .

📖 Ephesians 1:3 (ESV) 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,

📖 Ephesians 1:4 (ESV) even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world

1. the , we have a rooted in .

📖 Ephesians 1:4-6 (ESV) even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself 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.

📖 2 Timothy 1:9 (ESV) (God) saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which He gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

📖 John 15:16 (ESV) You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name, He may give it to you.

A. God’s choosing us us.

God does not us because we’re ; we’re because God us.

B. God’s choosing us us from the .

📖 Ephesians 1:4 (ESV) …”that we should be holy and blameless before Him“

C. God’s choosing us Himself.

📖 Ephesians 1:5 (ESV) He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace.

📖 1 Timothy 1:15-16 (ESV) Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display His perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in Him for eternal life.

2. the Son, we have an and with God.

📖 Ephesians 1:7-10 (ESV) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.

A. We are from to sin.

📖 Psalm 51:5 (ESV) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

📖 Psalm 19:13 (ESV) Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me!

📖 1 Peter 1:18-19 (ESV) you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

B. We are of .

📖 Ephesians 1:7 (ESV) … “the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace“…

C. We are in with God.

📖 Ephesians 1:10 (ESV) … “To UNITE all things in HIM, things in heaven and things on Earth.“…

3. the we have a of .

📖 Ephesians 1:11-14 (ESV) In Him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also, when you heard the word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of His glory.

The has us for a life of in the who us by the of the who us in the glorious that .