BLEST IN CHRIST (EPHESIANS 1:3-14)

we will understand in our new series today what our new life in Christ really means probably you're asking yourself pastor boots why do we study this why the book of efficient why are we studying the letter of Apostle Paul to Ephesus it's because we need to understand because I'm afraid that we may not be understanding the full extent of what Paul was trying to say repeatedly he would say this phrase in Christ that every time he would mention in Christ in him in the one he loves through Christ it is a very loaded statement that Apostle Paul laid before us this six chapters very short book of Apostle Paul to a church that is so peculiar and so strategic and after we have understand the entire series is that we may be able to live up fulfill the expectation maximize and leverage on what the new life in Christ is really about okay so it started when Paul was impressed on he wrote this letter when he was imprisoned chapter 4 of the letter in Ephesians he said as a prisoner of Christ so he gave us a glimpse that he was writing it in prison this is what we call the prison epistles including Philippians Colossians so he wrote letters when he was in jail and I want you to pay attention also on the dates a.d between AD 60 to 63 this is just 30 years after Jesus ascended or rose from the grave 30 years after he comes Paul writing to a church in Ephesus and you if I don't know if you're keen in observing that comparing the other letters of Paul there's something different when in the letter of officiants compared all the letters of paul are beautiful but bible scholars are very fond of efficience and you will understand somehow in the series because somehow the theology of paul mature and as he was writing it there is you can sense Paul's overflowing and the understanding of Paul as he laid down in a Parana ramicus cushon and picture what God has done in Christ and you will be amazed so hold on to that efficients is a strategic place it's a hub in the Asia Minor there are important port city Ephesus is one of those key cities where if you are a merchant traveling by boat or by ship they were always duck in a pieces or in Korean before they go to Rome not only the hub in in Asia Minor when it comes to the commerce economy or Trading's but Ephesus is also the hotbed the breeding ground or the melting pot of Oriental magic black magic and superstitions they thought and they believed that something fell from how they are heaven a god and they started worshiping this many breasted image portraying fertility and they would worship idols they would practice magic sorcery witchcraft and so on and so but that's why when Paul ministered in the city for the past three years second and third missionary journey Nepal if you have time I want you to read that acts 18 19 and 20 because that's the backstory of the church in Ephesus in and there was a time if you read Acts 18 there were many magicians who were involved in this occultation came to know the Lord and they public declare by burning their magic books publicly but only that Paul stayed there for three and a half years preaching the gospel every day to the point that Luke wrote this in acts saw that the people throughout the province of Asia Asia Minor both Jews and Greeks heard the word of the Lord when I came to this verse I said wow very very much like Singapore if you have been in this church for more than 25 years we were we were instrumental in sharing too in smart starting churches and overseeing churches in Asia and the Oceania part pairen-sama Gungan open up an aha nepal in episodes because that was a strategic place it's a hub people are coming and going so you like that de la silla and gospel the merchants whatever they go so this the word of the lord spread in asia both of the greeks and to the jews efficience is considered as the crown or the queen of all the peoples of all it is so beautiful because when you read ephesians that the only book that probably in the absence of personal touch the last poll no personal test of a Mostafa tychicus who mustafa poprad itis he I don't know if there was no mention of that because the letter of Paul in spite that the state for three years in this region in this case it II his letter was so profound that he was describing in detail and in beauty what God has done in Christ in salvation and the plan of God and the mystery of his will in Christ Jesus so Knapp Academy passo but this is considered as the crown come back upon marentina 'barmageddon a letter according to Bible scholars efficients is the crown in the queen of all the epistles of Paul because all the teachings of Paul were laid out here and some of the beauty of it because of the maturity of his understanding were thoroughly explained in visions now here's the overarching question that we will be trying to answer what does our new life in Christ mean and why should you care to know why should I understand what my new life in Christ because there's more it's not just attending the church and joining the ministry new life is not just giving it's not just singing it's not just like that sometimes if we view Christian life as just coming to church every Sunday is that that it's not the Christian like that it's more than that brothers and paul is shouting at the top of his head in officience let us not miss it there's more to our life in Christ and why should we care to know because if you do not understand it we are missing the Christian life that got the beauty and the wonder of what Christian life is all about okay so everybody now let's begin as I entitled my first conversation with you in chapter 1 blessed in Christ what does it mean to be in Christ what does our new life in Christ means Paul is shouting at the top of his head if you are in Christ you are blessed so blessed the word blessed is no longer used today in the English word because that's an old english translation but to give it some poetry here blessed in price turn to your neighbor and say you are blessed always understand Paul would repeat the phrase in Christ in him in the one he loves because that's the crucial thing that Paul is going to explain in Ephesus okay here's the focus passage we will concentrate in verses 3 to 14 now before we dive into this beautiful passage loaded profound passage let me say a few things if he says 3:1 to 14 in the Greek original translation of the New Testament is a 1 long complicated complex sentence that only tells us how overwhelming Paul when he was explaining what God has done in Christ the salvation he laid it in a panoramic view that he forgot to pause that he was writing so long a very very long sentence until verse 14 it's only in our new English translation that the English version of the Bible was broken into different sentences but the original Paul was not breathing when he was writing it until he reached verse 14 . that is a long sentence and 3 to 14 as the Jewish minds would call it Baraka and the word Baraka means it's a worship and a declaration of praise and adoration to god 3 to 14 Paul is saying join me as we bless the Lord and then he would give us the reason why do we need to bless God it's do why do we need to worship God and Paul started this letter by saying Baraka why do we need to be ingratitude with God why do we need to trade praise God why do we need to adore and declare and bless God for who he is he explained it in 3 to 14 now the the overarching principle that I want you to catch that in Christ our lives we have been blessed beyond measure the reason why I said that this will be the truth that you will can you can capture in this conversation is because Paul in verses 3 to 14 enumerated the blessing that we have in Christ is beyond measure when you say beyond measure : and tape measure more Paris cotton and pop-pop Alonso's in other translation in Christ we have been blessed in excess and here comes Paul saying at the outset of his letter using the traditional way of writing in the first century where the writer would name himself and the address see where that letter is being st. Paul unlike today when we write our letter you write your name at the end of the letter Devan Nagma Mahalo moon and up and then you write your name but in those days no analogue a young synagogue Zola Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ apostle means I am appointed and sent sent by God and look at the words by the polios by the will of God what is he saying this is not my own doing being an apostle this is not my choice I am called I was appointed to be an apostle by the will of God this is not my own doing this is not because only I wanted to become an apostle so when I was reading this like for flashbacks am i including Paul was writing his way to Damascus and then he encountered Jesus with a bright light and then the Lord and he was converted on that time and the Lord commissioned Paul to be his apostle messenger of the gospel to the Gentile world so Paul when he was writing this he was assuring the people that he was writing I am an apostle by the will of God and then he continued saying to the Saints in Ephesus the faithful in Christ Jesus grace and peace to you from our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ and then he said this in verse 3 praise be to the God and father of our lord jesus christ the word praise can be translated as Baraka or blessed is the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ so there was actually a play of words you see how many times the word bless is repeated if you will translate the word praise as blessed blessed is the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessings in Christ no wonder you cannot give any title to spaces and not unless it's really about the blessing of God in Christ now Paul I want you to pay attention carefully here he was writing this and Paul was very particular blessed be the god but Paulo and Jos Hama company no mr. priest oh now I want just got to patch this very carefully when we talk about God that is very generic but Paul is qualifying this that the God I am talking here that the God that I want to bless it's not just an ordinary God it's not just because of generic God this is the God that showed himself through Jesus Christ so that's important mad about it you may be talking about God just like today in Hollywood oh I thank God oh I honor the man upstairs you may speak of God but until until the God that you are talking about is connected and express himself in Christ we are not talking the same God sometimes we hear other people oh wow please God until Jesus Christ is connected to that God that that God did something in Christ that's the same God we're talking about and that's the same God that Paul is trying to praise because the word God is generic who whose God are you talking about so it is not enough to just to praise God and omit Christ in the declaration of worship in a totally second on Hindi Latin dances are being Parisian and just praise God that we are on the same page that we are only in the same page if the God that you're talking about has expressed himself in Christ you see the balance of paul paul is because in ephesus and that means you see if paul you're talking about this god yeah maybe that the same god no no no no were not the same polly saying i am praising the god of and father of the lord jesus christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessings and this blessings Paul is qualifying you cannot find this blessing in any other place it can only be found in Christ no Monica petite Shannon giggling and Papa Palin and just I know attacking isoparm a Gitana Christo hindi chaya impact Paulo and just now not through Christ the blessing of God is always by virtue of our relationship with Christ I hope you get it because the term God is generic and polishing you know but Paulo in operation and Pangolin and Jose and just a ma than adding banging on his crystal then in only then we're talking about the same God verse 4 Paul started in numerating what are these spiritual blessings that we have received Paul is declaring what God our Father has done to us in Christ any pixel kupaza Christ para is an cuarto that like crisis a room that if I am in Christ the blessing of God is there but if I am NOT in Christ there is no blessing if you're outside of him no wonder see John the Apostle when he was writing to his parishioners he mentioned that anyone who has Christ has life and he who does not have the son does not have life I'm Aaron Cristo my boo high and cinnamon wollen Cristo along do I concur simply and Polly see you saying if you are not in Christ then you don't enjoy this blessing but that's my fear we who profess to be Christians are actually in Christ but it should manifest in our lives but why is it that we are missing a lot because we think that Christianity or being in Christ is just coming to church worshipping and singing so being in Christ is more than that it's far far more than just coming to church and living and calling ourselves Christian and reading the Bible there's more to our life in Christ that's what police trying to say so he enumerated in verses 4 and following Paul started by saying the reason why we we have to bless the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who bless us with the every all blessings in the heavenly one of those blessings because he chose us in him in Christ he chose us in him before the creation of the vimana but it was in a beacon inna that the bottom line the main thing that I want you to capture in this conversation is in Christ we have been blessed beyond measure Papa anima so so cotton an alum papaya and bag opening window pineal ikan Anna now think about that for the moment he chose you and me in Christ before the creation of the world how can God choose people like you and me on what basis on what Mary it means to say that we have nothing to boast that his choice is not dependent on our goodness on who we are but on his sovereignty that he chose you and me in Christ he did not choose us apart from Christ it is by virtue of your being United with my son that you were chosen now I want you to hold on to that thought because Paul would try to break this thought he said you he chose us in him before the creation of the world you know what does it mean apini like an angel it means you are not insignificant it means I am NOT worthless if God has chosen me I am NOT zero it echoes in my mind Jeremiah when Jeremiah was overwhelming God said to Jeremiah Jeremiah before I formed you in your mother's womb I chose you I know you I knew you Jeremiah and I appointed you and Jeremiah was wondering it's a mind-blowing God how can you do that even before I was born pineal yeah janab-i even before I formed you I knew you now tell me brothers and sisters if the blessing in Christ is not beyond measure don't feel so sad and lonely now you know master booth I feel so sad I feel so disappointed why because nobody would choose me nobody I feel like worthless I feel like zero because of the circumstances in my life Mohammed after reading this God chose you if God chose us therefore we are not insignificant therefore there is meaning to life there sensed life and Paul continued saying in love there is a union Padma Mahal in love he predestine as another big world he already defined the destiny he predestined us to be adopted you know sometimes we look at adoption as maybe for some it had not not so good term you know possible adapted long ago did you know that we are all adopted because God has only one son one only begotten son that is Jesus all of us are adopted children of the Father he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Christ in accordance with his good pleasure his pleasure and will well I'm a shadow effect Saturnian I look at your pattern no no my young adopted but police try in the in the times of the Romans adoption is a very heavy thing you know why because adoption is a legal matters that are sometimes accent and process to be done the father's absolute power and authority he can kill the son he can send his son to prison to be a son is to be an heir of the kingdom or whatever reaches and well and you know what not only that to be adopted once you are adopted under the Roman rule your past is erase once you are adopted from this family and this family adopted you everything about you in the past is erased including your debts as I'm a human are alternative but that's the principle of adoption once you are adopted into the family of God the past is erased and now having if in the adoption a no your old life is gone you're totally a different citizen no wonder Apostle Paul would say that that concept in Corinthians when he said those who are in Christ a new creation the oldest gun behold he is a new person so you see when there is an adoption transaction that happened in the times of the Romans imagine in Europe it away ordinary allow an acronym problema in the definition Emperor or console or whatever sinto Leon and the process of adoption has done so I may have the same face walking in the streets of Rome but Alma the Latin up in acatenango and may all right that has been erased yet I can never be pursued and persecuted because of my past I can never be accused because of my past because of this adoption so Paul is saying those who are in Christ you have been adopted into the family which means you have been freed from your old life now life in Christ is not just coming to church and enjoying the every Sunday touch more to him that only if we understand the value and the weight of it and it will give impact in our life it will change the way we live our lives today to the place why did God do it to the praise of his glorious grace but ever beginning operation and Joseph Boyden which he has freely given us in the one he loves it is all done God's glorious miraculous salvation intervention was done by virtue of our inclusion in Christ being in Christ is being United with Jesus here's the principle to be in Christ this is how they understood it before specially the Hebrew people now let me let me rewind a little bit remember the time when David was fighting Goliath remember the time and the argument was if I kill you you will be all servants or if you kill me we will be your service so that is a principle of representation that David representing the entire Israel and Goliath is representing the entire Philistines army that anything happened to David happen to Israel anything happened to fit the Goliath happens to the Philistines okay so when be bit warned the battle that's is that's the allegory that's the metaphor when David won the battle the Israelites I wonder if they knew and understand the impact of the victory of David the same principle we are in Christ whatever happens to Christ whatever god bless his son it happened to us that's in in the writings of Paul we are crucified with Christ we rose with Christ because that's the intention of being in Christ when we are included and United in Christ that when Christ died we died with him when Christ rose we rose with him when Christ is seated at the head as we are seated at the right side of the Father that's how they understood being in Christ so God Paul is not trying to say you know what that's what it means to be in Christ that what it means to live the new life in Christ that all the blessings of the Father given in Christ is also for you immeasurably beyond what we can imagine in him he continued illuminating the blessings in him we have redemption another big word remembering the Old Testament what happened to the Israelites in Egypt they were redeemed they were set free look at that through the blood when when Joshua was commanded put the blood on the doorpost Joshua because I will pass over you that night God redeemed Israel from the bondage of Egypt from the slavery so here's an Old Testament term and Pali saying in him in Christ we have been set free we have been delivered we have been redeemed now I am Bunga Dean but when I was growing up in vehicle I was so familiar with pawnshops Sbrocco happenin boja in the province they were tight and opening sang live or this tape recorder bring it to the pawn shop as far as I can remember voilá napoo coming not to booze lahat London Ellis a pawn shop stayed inside the pawn shop except for the jewelry of my dad the watch gold watch of my father Phoenix accompanied Aminah to Busan and that is my first time to experience when I came there and we came there as a family and we paid to redeem back that watch with interest and the watch became ours again that's what Polly saying you have been in bondage of sin but God in Christ redeem you he paid the penalty he delivered you so that's an echo of the Old Testament look at the blood the forgiveness of your sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace the nobis cannon and jaws don't go back to the pawn shop don't go back to their slavery of sin to your old life do not go that's the problem and look at again the Israelites for thousands for hundreds of years they were crying to God to Yahweh deliver us from the Egyptians deliver us from the Egyptians and God sent a deliverer when they were marching in the wilderness going to the promised land what were their complain bring us back to Egypt we missed the onions we missed the garlic we missed the roti prata bring us back to Egypt you read that and Moses was saying what's going on with you guys don't you not understand you have been set free you have been delivered from the bandits do you want to return back to making the bricks in Egypt have you forgotten that you were asking my god of other set us free and now God has set you free and because of the hardship you complain bring us back to Egypt well where is it is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you bring us out out of Egypt to die in the wilderness they complain to Moses and Moses was so patient as a person dealing with this description poonam Bible stiff neck hard-headed people I wonder if we are like that God set us free from our old life he redeemed us and here we are wanting pressure and cut up and zaboo high or maybe we are forgetting to live a life of being a free person a free man penal ionic crystal life in Christ is not just receiving forgiveness and enjoying life in this world it's more than that there's more implied to our being United with Christ and Paul without breathing writing from verse 3 a very long complicated complex sentence and ended in verse 14 he was trying to pour out in a panoramic view what Christ what God has done in Christ for those who have believed truly in Christ we have been blessed beyond measure you cannot measure all about it : tape measure para so cotton because the blessings in Christ is beyond this world limitless extravagant in excess and then Paul said that he lavished on us with all wisdom I like that word lavish that's why I said beyond measure extravagantly in the Katyn lipid Bennigan's and just say by virtue of your being included in Christ now Kyah permission it's so guilty when we feel so guilty when hoster a dominant chord well I'm blessing as a mobile-first officience chapter one to what extent God did or has done for you and here we are downcast so sad that mu mock mock that we self-pity bucket while I'm blessing in the manna wanna do you not understand what it means to live in Christ that God has chose you before the creation of the world he practiced in you he sent his son to die for you to pay Ransome so that you live a free life and here we are as Christians today hunting pressure Lang left and rights office Kentucky her up and lung and then we are so easily downcast sad and disappointed para Gandhinagar nana mundo are you blessed I don't I'm not blessed he loves on you more than anything but so if you read the first chapter to chapter three he ended chapter three with an exclamation God is able to do exceedingly abundant can you imagine Paul like being in a civility if he says it sanim ain't India new Christians in Ephesus it's not in the fertility of the god of fertility Artemis that your favor and your blessing depends it is in the God of our Father the Lord Jesus Christ who has chosen you before the creation of the world in love he predestined you and in him he redeemed you and forgive you and he loves on you with all wisdom and understanding you will not be ignorant anymore he revealed to you the mystery of his will look at that next one and he made known to us the mystery of his field I want you to to to pay attention very carefully here because Paul is about to unload to us a huge truth that many of us Christians who they have actually missed in the way we understand it now hold on to that and he made known to us Pina alumnae Josiah's do reveal the word revealed means to uncover it's there but God has uncover it so that it is now into the open God made known to us the mystery of his will what is that mystery of his will what is God doing from the time of Abraham from the time of Adam until the end of the world what is God trying to achieve what is the mystery of his will and Paul is about unloaded to us he made known to us in Christ the mystery of his will so that we will understand what is God up to in this world what is God doing actually and then Paul said this to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment when the time comes that it will be fulfilled the plan of God and he said this to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head even Christ now here's the bomb that Paul dropped to the efficients and many of them understood it but I'm afraid for all of us we missed this as we were growing in the 1980s I don't know maybe because of the books that we have read from the West I'm not saying the West is bad but sometimes the influence of some writers and the teachings that we have received Nepean Agee he was a nothing in heaven and earth there is this notion that when you receive your life in Christ by by even on earth I'm going to heaven as if life in Christ salvation is just leaving the earth and going to have and finally I'm going to have the parable and salvation at and I packed in anger Casa Cristo someday I will leave this world and I will be united with my father in heaven bye-bye we are separating heaven and earth but actually that's not the purpose of God that's not what God is doing what God is doing the mystery of Israel is that he's bringing everything under the headship of Jesus Christ heaven and earth will be merging that's the intention of God no wonder in the prayer of Jesus it's already given a glimpse when Jesus said you pray this way let your kingdom come on earth in the Book of Revelations Revelation chapter 21 22 what is the final picture sub-unit John I saw the New Jerusalem the new heaven and the new earth is merging so me on ocean Athena emerging Christian Oh an elitist ayah we all go to heaven actually heaven is coming down to earth because there will be a merging and the whole world will be redeemed book of Romans says it's not only the humanity is being saved the creation is groaning and waiting for the redemption they know to boost in and just and nature that has been cursed because of sin but the overall picture here is God is bringing all things pay attention to that God is bringing to bring all things in heaven and on earth under one headship that is Jesus Christ mark uppity God will not abandon the earth this is part of his relation he is actually redeeming the entire universe and when that is done he will give us the new heaven and the new earth and God would rule not in heaven God would rule in this world that's why Jesus said you will rule with me when I reign and my kingdom come in this world in the Old Testament in the wilderness remember the tabernacle the tent in the wilderness that is the meeting point that Devine is meeting with the humanity and that that Tabernacle is actually the heaven and earth merging it is already being pictured by by God in the Old Testament look what is going to happen there will be a meeting of the heaven and earth and that is the tabernacle and you know in the book of Ephesians he said that already chapter 1 that is God's mystery of is really he's bringing everything together not only the heaven and earth Greeks and Israel Jews and Greece are no longer - God is bringing them together last man and wife are no longer two they are becoming one that's the imagery of Paul Paul lays down the truth before them in hymns I've been appalled we were also chosen having been practiced it again he repeated the word according to the plan what's the plan that's the plan that's what God is working in this world and you and I are part of that plan who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will in verse 12 in order that we who are first the word we or the pronoun we is referring to the Jewish people in behalf Paulo saying come in Maggio in order that we who were first to hope in Christ because the Jewish people were the first generation chosen by God and God revealed himself to the Jewish people so that we who hope in Christ might be for the praise of his glory you know why God chose Israel not because they're good God chose them for a purpose panini Nando Samba song ancient Israel was chosen because God would reveal himself to this nation piracy like mugging allow so that the other nation would see or may just belong Israel and these people will start to worship the God that the Israelites is worshipping but the Israelites the ancient Israel failed to do that they became inward-looking they become arrogant were the chosen people and they started dividing the temple the Jews up the Greeks you cannot come in Paul said in Ephesians no God will destroy Jesus destroyed the wall and now he's bringing the Jews and degrees into one body and intentional just bucket at our opinion Paulo para Makita Namanga Tata Cebu hi Nathan Namir on couple enjoys the Necropolis a Cohiba haka hi Baba I am just not in Cebu hi Nathan and because of that our lives becomes a blessing to the God who has blessed us beyond measure in order that we who are out to hope in Christ might be for the praise of his glory that's the intention of God and you and then he focused on the leaders and new Gentiles in episodes and you also were included not only us you also were included in Christ you see Paul is no longer dividing the minima Jews are chosen that we are elite than you now polish D by taking out the dividing line you also were part cement Allen in the temple if you're not a Jew you cannot enter there's a gentle Court there is a boundary you cannot enter there only the Jew people can go in the Jewish people can go into that part there is a Gentile called the gentle who wanted to worship Yahweh are there cannot even listen to what's going on in that in the in the center of the temple because they were discriminated Paul would say that in officience Jesus destroyed that wall no longer now there is no more Jew nor Gentile because God is bringing everything under one head shape that is Jesus I like what Paul said here listen carefully as we end when you heard you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation having believed you were mark him last Sunday pastor maan introduced his sermon with a golf analogy I was one of the students of our brothers who are teaching us in golf I'm learning to play this interesting game but one of the many things I've learned as I observed them play is they mark their golf balls because when you hit the ball and everybody hit the ball and they're how do you know which one is yours and everybody claiming the partes is mine but you cannot argue when the ball is mark it's just know it's PB it's mine that's what Paul is trying to say those who are in Christ you were mark in him nobody can claim you and said you might not know even Satan cannot claim you if you are in Christ he may have hold on you before but because you are adopted that has been erased and you're in Christ and not only you are adopted in try you have been marked that Sabini said oh no no no having and no no how many got done this is mine Satan which I know that that's my mark allow an American Cena sabe you are marked tribuna Paul you were marked in him it's not visible animal mark because here Paulo saying the mark is not something tangible the seal the authentication to make it legitimate and valid in legal document the seal you were marked in him with a seal in the along bus terminal quran may sell you in the Roman government seal is important in our context stamp duty any transaction without a stamp duty is not valid paul is saying you are not just mark you were sealed and the seal is the Holy Spirit look at the Trinitarian approach of all blessed is the God and father of the Lord Jesus price and later on said of the Holy Spirit at the Trinity here how balanced Paul would well to the efficient and laid down what God has done in Christ through the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament remember this for a while before we end remember the the tabernacle while they were marching in the wilderness there is a cloud and a pillar of fire that would guide them if the clouds would be lifted up Israel will move on move forward if the cloud stops the Israel will stop and settle down at night they have the fire to light their way if the clouds and the fire for Israel represents the powerful presence of Yahweh ma petite the Holy Spirit is the same cloud and fire for us Christians today the Holy Spirit is given to guide us towards the promised land towards inheritance the Holy Spirit is supposed to guide us and lead us no wonder jesus said I will pray that the father will send the spirit and when he comes he will guide you into all the truth now life in Christ you and I have the Holy Spirit Paul said your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit he lives within you but why is it we claim to be Christians and in Christ taia Andina in the tayo nicotinic secure binominal espírita Santa why are we still living our lives on our own way like the Israelites they have the clouds they have the fire and yet they were disturbing and doing a lot of things that's why this journey for 40 years Christians today we have the Holy Spirit to guide us but are we letting him guide our lives that's what it means to be in Christ that you have been given a GPS that you have been given a Holy Spirit in you to guide you navigate this life because without a navigator we tend to get lost in this life I'm talking Maranatha crystal logging at that and on Lord is this the right thing to do is this the right job Lord it is the right relationship you always ask you elaborate the Holy Spirit given to you because he was given to guide us to see to it that we will reach the promised land and the last verse Paul said who is referring to the Spirit given to you is a deposit if you're buying a car and the car is worth $10,000 some company would ask 10% and you have to give a down payment of $1,000 that is a down payment that is a deposit and it means it's a guarantee now I am pledging committed to pay whatever every month until I pull evade everything in this commitment so that's the same thing the presence of the Holy Spirit in us is God's guarantee saying guarantees are the young commit at the hope that I will finish what I have started in you he who began a good work in you will be faithful to completely because he already gave a downpayment mahabhava read Hindi Habibi Tina and Jessica Leggett nan so the presence of the Holy Spirit in us is actually a guarantee and assurance that he will bring us to the finish line that's what it means to live in Christ you're not alone our inheritance until the redemption of Christ Jesus of all those to the praise of his glory now going back to my question a while ago what does our new life in Christ mean and why should you care because there's more to our Christian life than just coming to church and reading our Bible there's so much more at stake and if we do not understand it we're missing a lot because of what God has done through Christ just to enumerate what God has done in Christ for you and me look at that it's oshio he adopted you he redeemed you he gave you wisdom he revealed the mystery of his will in Christ so you will not be surprised anymore what happens in the world he gives you an inheritance my momma inka marrying someone donated our own Gulam oh it's okay better my mom and I led Roca antara you are an heir by virtue of your being in Christ and the last is his sealed deal Marhaba did no turning back Valen bowie onion indiana petting him o alas Agana because you have been marked and sealed now are you bless I think when you are us again are you bless I don't think saying yes is enough I mean I suggest with you when somebody asks you are you blessed the rightful response is beyond measure if somebody asked you are you blessed Oh mark about it do you have two minutes it's not enough you cannot measure how blessed I am because God has poured everything in Christ for you and me so the bottom line if you miss everything is in Christ Jesus you have been blessed beyond measure endemic I am so hot in there for what tyoma look mo vaca-oom a long coat well Allen para para nada no mundo am pop Allen and Jose a Hindi NASA cut some material in a bag I your self-worth is not dependent under what's in your pocket your self-worth your value is not dependent on your grades on your work those things are good but God has chosen you in Christ and in him your blessing is beyond measure so as I call our brothers and sisters who will sing as we leave this sanctuary this is my challenge for each and every one of us let us live up to bless God la la mascota Asarco sailing in tow Bob Mollica Iran Iranian trabajo office school community those who are working at home let us work and let us leave this life that we may bless God I'm a big a nut in a couple Rihanna Karen Allen and Jose Paul said that in a different way in Corinthians whatsoever you do do it all for the glory of whether you eat or drink or play or cook or whatever you do you bless God there are blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus [Music]

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Keywords: win sq, win-church, word international ministries, disciples, followers of Jesus, Ephesians, In Christ

Id: 0rIXnl7XMnw

Length: 46min 49sec (2809 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 22 2019