{"id":36486,"date":"2022-09-13T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-are-the-spiritual-blessings-according-to-ephesians-13\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:57:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:57:59","slug":"what-are-the-spiritual-blessings-according-to-ephesians-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-are-the-spiritual-blessings-according-to-ephesians-13\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the spiritual blessings according to Ephesians 1:3?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing<\/strong> in the heavenly places in Christ,” Ephesians 1:3.<\/p>\n

The spiritual blessings referred to in Ephesians 1:3 are given to Christians who have consecrated their lives to God<\/strong> through His Son<\/strong>, Jesus Christ.  These spiritual blessings, as opposed to material blessings, such as prosperity in this life, begin with knowledge of the creator Father and a recognition of Jesus as mankind’s Savior.<\/p>\n

After one understands that God’s Son, Jesus, paid the price for his sin, repents and devotes his life to following God’s will, he receives the blessing of the holy spirit. <\/strong>God’s spirit works powerfully to transform them into the character likeness of Christ. (Romans 12:1,2)  As Christians walk in obedience to God’s will, they receive the blessing of peace with God<\/strong>. (See Romans 5:1, Ephesians 1:2.) <\/p>\n

Christians are also blessed because the Lord Jesus Christ is their advocate <\/strong>(see 1 John 2:1) with the Father. These have the great, necessary privilege of prayer,<\/strong> asking and receiving the blessing of forgiveness of sins<\/strong> through the merit of their Lord Jesus Christ.  <\/p>\n

Furthermore, Christians desire to study and understand the Bible<\/strong>. God, through the holy spirit, opens our hearts and minds<\/strong> to understand His magnificent plans and purposes.  (See John 16:13, John 6:63, John 17:17) “He made known to us the mystery of His will<\/strong>, according to His kind intention…” Ephesians 1:9 (NASB). This clearer knowledge of God’s righteous, loving characte<\/strong>r, and of His comprehensive plan for all<\/strong>, are spiritual blessings (see 1 Corinthians 2:9, 10).<\/p>\n

“This is why only someone who has God’s Spirit can understand spiritual blessings.  Anyone who doesn’t have God’s Spirit thinks these blessings are foolish,” 1 Corinthians 2:14 (CEV). <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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,” Ephesians 1:3. The spiritual blessings referred to in Ephesians 1:3 are given to Christians who have consecrated their lives to God through His Son, Jesus Christ.  These spiritual blessings, as … Continue reading “What are the spiritual blessings according to Ephesians 1:3?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}