Monday, August 07, 2006
Eph the best chapter
I am in rochester so no calls please. I got here last night. It is my birthday so cards are still ok. I still like to know I am loved out there in blogger land. I know I am because all you come. I got footprints so I am glad people are enjoying this thing I do so I am going to do it until everyone on this earth thinks like I do and it is going to be a long time. I find myself sometimes a little down and I have been drawn many times to a bible passage I want to work on today and that is Eph 1.
Eph 1 3How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.
Note first that in Jesus we have every blessing. Some are going to tell you that you have to grow into the blessing or somehow earn them. This passage said we have been blessed already with aall blessings. When you come to Jesus you have all of Jesus and not just some of him. Every thing in the bible is yours and not one thing is lefgt out. Forgiveness, life forever in heaven, faith, power to live for Jesus and everything is all yours the time you made Jesus king. And we belong to Jesus forever and nothing is lost when you got saved. Not one person has lost salvation or blessing so you that want to think your lost after your saved are wrong. God saved you...
4 Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.
Now I could go the way many want me here but I am going to go the way I need to. God choose us before the beginning of time. It said that. It does not say here we had the choice and this is not popular in some fronts of the faith. I am going to side here on the place where I know many in my realm are not. God choose people to go to his side and they are the ones that go. No people are not going to side on Gods side or even choose to go to Jesus God does it. God choice is that he is going to save some and lose others. It means that some are saved and others are lost by Him and not on the your side. If you get into Jesus it is becasue God chose you and not because you chose him. That takes all the glory and gives it to Jesus and not you. It means you had nothing to do with it and God did it.
6So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. 7He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven. 8He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.
God gives you all so he gets all the praise. It is the kindness God gave to us not because we do anything at all to deserve it. Yes you accepted the gift but you do nothing to get it. It is not of you at all that you got saved it is God alone that gave you the love for him and the truth and the love you have for him. Note how you are given life. It is the blood of Jesus alone that gives you freedom and forgiveness. He died on the cross so you can be saved. All forgiveness is of ther cross and offered via the blood of Jesus. Without Jesus no forgiveness can be given and thus no heaven is granted. If you do not have Jesus you will never be forgiven and your sins will place you away from Jesus and God forever in a place called hell with nothing for you. It looks mean in a way for Him to no pick you but the bible also said it is your sins that place you in hell and they are your fault. If your not saved that is on you and if you are that is all of God. Gods kindness is for them he wants to give it to. Gods wrath is for those who do not want the gift of salvation and the ones who God does not choose. Why does God save only some? Here is the wrong thing to ask. It ought to be why does God save anybody. Why does God allow anybody into heaven.
9God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. 10And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth. 11Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[b] for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.
The plan is centered on Jesus and not with you. It is a plan to give Jesus all the pleasure and not for you. It is not for your plesasure to go to heaven it is Gods. Your a gift to the Lord from God. It is a gift to Jesus that you got saved. It is all God and not a part of you. Your gift of heaven is a gift from God to Jesus.
2God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. 13And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. 14The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.
When you trusted in Jesus your got the deposit of the Holy Spirit to promise you your trust is not in vain. This is a statement of pure secure trust. God is going to bring you to heaven if your in Jesus and are saved. Nobody lost salvation ever or they do not give it away or they did not jump from Jesus. If God choose you your going to be in heaven with Jesus forever. Its not a hope it is a fact. God does not just save you for a short time he saves you forever and heaven is part of the plan.
What I vsaid this morning is for people who are saved. If your not saved nothing above has been gicen to you. I do not want to neglect the fact the Lord might be chooseing you. All Gods people are chosen yet if you are not in Jesus you must choose him. God is asking you to make a choice to ask Jesus to save you. If your not in Jesus please ask him to show you the way to be saved..
Admit your in need of Jesus Believe in him alone to save you and then confess it to Jesus. God bless you
Eph 1 3How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.
Note first that in Jesus we have every blessing. Some are going to tell you that you have to grow into the blessing or somehow earn them. This passage said we have been blessed already with aall blessings. When you come to Jesus you have all of Jesus and not just some of him. Every thing in the bible is yours and not one thing is lefgt out. Forgiveness, life forever in heaven, faith, power to live for Jesus and everything is all yours the time you made Jesus king. And we belong to Jesus forever and nothing is lost when you got saved. Not one person has lost salvation or blessing so you that want to think your lost after your saved are wrong. God saved you...
4 Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure.
Now I could go the way many want me here but I am going to go the way I need to. God choose us before the beginning of time. It said that. It does not say here we had the choice and this is not popular in some fronts of the faith. I am going to side here on the place where I know many in my realm are not. God choose people to go to his side and they are the ones that go. No people are not going to side on Gods side or even choose to go to Jesus God does it. God choice is that he is going to save some and lose others. It means that some are saved and others are lost by Him and not on the your side. If you get into Jesus it is becasue God chose you and not because you chose him. That takes all the glory and gives it to Jesus and not you. It means you had nothing to do with it and God did it.
6So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son. 7He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven. 8He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.
God gives you all so he gets all the praise. It is the kindness God gave to us not because we do anything at all to deserve it. Yes you accepted the gift but you do nothing to get it. It is not of you at all that you got saved it is God alone that gave you the love for him and the truth and the love you have for him. Note how you are given life. It is the blood of Jesus alone that gives you freedom and forgiveness. He died on the cross so you can be saved. All forgiveness is of ther cross and offered via the blood of Jesus. Without Jesus no forgiveness can be given and thus no heaven is granted. If you do not have Jesus you will never be forgiven and your sins will place you away from Jesus and God forever in a place called hell with nothing for you. It looks mean in a way for Him to no pick you but the bible also said it is your sins that place you in hell and they are your fault. If your not saved that is on you and if you are that is all of God. Gods kindness is for them he wants to give it to. Gods wrath is for those who do not want the gift of salvation and the ones who God does not choose. Why does God save only some? Here is the wrong thing to ask. It ought to be why does God save anybody. Why does God allow anybody into heaven.
9God's secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure. 10And this is his plan: At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ--everything in heaven and on earth. 11Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God,[b] for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.
The plan is centered on Jesus and not with you. It is a plan to give Jesus all the pleasure and not for you. It is not for your plesasure to go to heaven it is Gods. Your a gift to the Lord from God. It is a gift to Jesus that you got saved. It is all God and not a part of you. Your gift of heaven is a gift from God to Jesus.
2God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. 13And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago. 14The Spirit is God's guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people. This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God.
When you trusted in Jesus your got the deposit of the Holy Spirit to promise you your trust is not in vain. This is a statement of pure secure trust. God is going to bring you to heaven if your in Jesus and are saved. Nobody lost salvation ever or they do not give it away or they did not jump from Jesus. If God choose you your going to be in heaven with Jesus forever. Its not a hope it is a fact. God does not just save you for a short time he saves you forever and heaven is part of the plan.
What I vsaid this morning is for people who are saved. If your not saved nothing above has been gicen to you. I do not want to neglect the fact the Lord might be chooseing you. All Gods people are chosen yet if you are not in Jesus you must choose him. God is asking you to make a choice to ask Jesus to save you. If your not in Jesus please ask him to show you the way to be saved..
Admit your in need of Jesus Believe in him alone to save you and then confess it to Jesus. God bless you
