Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast as: We take a biblical walk through the book of Ephesians, to learn and study the blessings of our redemption and how we ought to live now that we are in Christ Jesus.
In Him...,
👉🏾 We are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms (study Ephesians 1:3).
👉🏾In God's love, He chose us in Christ (actually selected us for Himself as His own) before the foundation of the world so that we will be holy and blameless in His sight (study Ephesians 1:4).
👉🏾He predestined and lovingly planned for us to be adopted to Himself as His own children through Jesus Christ (study Ephesians 1:5).
👉🏾We have redemption (that is, our deliverance and salvation) through His blood, (which paid the penalty for our sin and resulted in) the forgiveness and complete pardon of our sin, in accordance with the riches of His grace (study Ephesians 1:7).
👉🏾We have received an inheritance, having been predestined (chosen, appointed beforehand) according to the purpose of Him who works everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His will (study Ephesians 1:11).
👉🏾 When we heard the Good News of our salvation, (and as a result believed in Him), we were stamped with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit as owned and protected by God (study Ephesians 1:13).
Amen! Therefore beloved, by these wonderful blessings, you and I are made alive in Christ! We were once spiritually dead and separated from Him because of our transgressions and sins. We were following the ways of this world influenced by this present age, in accordance with the prince of the power of the air (Satan), the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient (the unbelieving), who fight against the purposes of God. But God, being (so very) rich in mercy, that even when we were (spiritually) dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us (spiritually) alive together with Christ! For by His grace, you, and I, have been saved from His judgment! (study Ephesians 2).
We must no longer live as the unbelieving Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds (and in the foolishness and emptiness of their souls). We must be continually renewed in the spirit of our mind (having a fresh, untarnished mental and spiritual attitude). We must put away all sin, and do not give the devil an opportunity to lead us into sin! We must not grieve the Holy Spirit of God (study Ephesians 4), as we are in this wonderful sanctification process! We are called and commanded to be imitators of God, to be holy, to live clean, and to consider all our ways before the Lord as we await his soon coming! We are to walk as children of Light (study Ephesians 5)! Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
