EPHESIANS 1:3 BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

Ephesians 1:3 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, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.

        In this section we see that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.  What are these blessings? The first 3 chapters describe all of them. We will talk about three of those blessings today.  First we have been chosen by God so that He could make us holy and without blame, next we have been adopted as sons and have become part of the family of God, and lastly we have been accepted in Jesus Christ the Beloved because of what He did on the cross.  To be accepted means we now are approved of by God.  Before we were sinners not able to come into His presence and now we can because we are now saints in the eyes of God because Jesus blood shed on the cross took away all of our sins.