1 John 2:16 tells us, “For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the prideful boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the godless world.” Ignorance of our unholy and unrighteous state before our holy and righteous Creator God produces darkness and blindness in a life seeking happiness, but never finding it on the highway to Hell; that wide road to destruction (Matthew 7:13), oblivious to the light of Truth. This is what we are saved from! This is what we have to rejoice about! Sovereign is your loving Savior! From this prospective of salvation by grace through faith, the blessings of God (blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him (Jesus) before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved), allows us to more fully comprehend what we have been saved to. Tell someone that you love today about what God has done for you, and them.
Ephesians 2:1-9 “You He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast."
Blessed in Christ, Brian
1 comment:
Thanks Brian.
Wonderful Job!!!!! Beautifully written and Scripturally sound!!
Nancy
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