Ephesians 1:3-6
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 made us accepted in the Beloved.
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 made us accepted in the Beloved.
God who is blessed has so blessed us in Jesus Christ the Lord who is ours. He has given blessings in the place of His dwelling in heaven, come down to earth as He came down and became a man. He chose us before creating the world, not waiting for us to choose Him, and that was to make us like Him as set apart and righteous by His love. In this predestination, this setting events in order before they were to happen, He knew us intimately before we were in Christ and did not merely see our choice ahead of time (Ps.139:16). He chose us before time to be adopted in His time as His children through His Son, His very word manifested as a man with us. This was solely by His pleasure and grace, not our deserving or earning. These things all bring God glory and His grace to us as He has made us acceptable to stand in His presence in Christ’s work and righteousness!
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