God's Salvation brings Us Blessings and makes Us Holy and Blameless

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This blog ought to have been January 30, 2017

Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-4

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, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. 

Insights: As we continue our study through the Believe material we come to the aspect of our belief system that centers on our life in the Lord.  In other words, what makes it possible for us to have life in Christ is the salvation we have because of His work.  When we are saved we learn we have received every spiritual blessing from the Lord.  We receive His peace.  We receive His joy.  We receive His love.  We receive every spiritual blessing.  All too often I believe we forget all we receive from Jesus.  He enables and equips us to live in this world completely and purposefully for Him with these blessings He provides.  There is a second aspect in today’s verses we see regarding our salvation.  God’s salvation also makes us holy and blameless.  Notice the key preposition used in this fourth verse.  The preposition is the word in.  In Him (Jesus) we become holy and blameless.  He imputes His holiness and blamelessness into our lives.  We are not holy and blameless based on our good deeds and abilities, but rather because of the transformational life change found in Jesus.  Ted Dekker in his book The Forgotten Way illustrates this life change through the example of Superman and Clark Kent.  When we become born again, we are Superman.  Unfortunately, we put on the business suit of Clark Kent and forget we can actually fly.  Jesus has made us holy and blameless and we can fly in Him.  Until someone taps us on the shoulder and says, “Um, you know you are Superman, don’t you,” we become trapped in our old self of Clark Kent.  Once we are tapped, however, we must then make a mental jump to agree with that statement or not.  If we do, then we run into the phone booth and change into our real outfit and we fly.  Beloved, in Christ, you are holy and blameless.  Live life from this victorious perspective.

Questions:

 1. What are some of the blessings you can identify as having received Jesus gift of salvation?

 2. Do you actually think of yourselves as being holy and blameless before God?

Prayer: Father, thank You for saving me and imputing into my life holiness and blamelessness.  I am grateful to be Your child and to experience Your love found in my salvation.  Amen.

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