Facebook post 285 (Send Tuesday December 20, 2022)
Ephesians 1:3-14 is God, through the Apostle Paul, revealing to Christians, members of Christ’s body, the church, how when God stood alone in His darkest tomorrow, He saw everything from that moment through eternity; therefore, it has already been revealed to us God already knew the time, for what purpose, and the solution, to everything every person in every generation faces, so Christians can become mature in Christ, by trusting everything to Him, in praise, thanks, and worship that glorifies Him.
Ephesians 1:3-14—3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. 4 Even before He made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. This is what He wanted to do, and it gave Him great pleasure. 6 So we praise God for the glorious grace He has poured out on us who belong to His dear Son. 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that He purchased our freedom with the blood of His Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered His kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding. 9 God has now revealed to us His mysterious plan regarding Christ, a plan to fulfill His own good pleasure. 10 And this is the plan: At the right time He will bring everything together under the authority of Christ—everything in heaven and on earth. 11 Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for He chose us in advance, and he makes everything work according to His plan. 12 God’s purpose was for us Jews who were the first to trust Christ would bring praise and glory to God. 13 And now you Gentiles have also heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you. And when you believed in Christ, He identified you as His own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom He promised long ago. 14 The Spirit is God’s guarantee that He will give us the inheritance He promised and that He has purchased us to be His own people. He did this so we would praise and glorify Him.
Likewise, 2 Peter 1:2-4 is God revealing through the Apostle Peter that His grace and peace in Christ Jesus (John 1:17; Ephesians 2:13-14) is not only multiplied to us, but His divine power has already given us everything pertaining to life and godliness, for we also have all God’s exceedingly great and precious promises, so through them we may partake of God’s divine nature, having already through Christ Jesus, escaped the corruption in the world through lust, which is evident, God, through Christ Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, has already freed us from the lust of the world, for John 16:33; 1 John 5:1-5, and 1 John 3:8 reveal Christ Jesus has already overcome the world for us, even all its lust, and through faith in His finished work, we can keep the devil’s works destroyed.
2 Peter 1:2-4—2 May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. 3 By His divine power, God has given us everything we need to live a godly life. We have received all this by coming to know Him, the One who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence. 4 And because of His glory and excellence, He has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires (lusts).
To sin we must, in our thinking, destroy everything God gave us in Christ Jesus, before time began, yet God’s love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness, while standing alone in His darkest tomorrow saw us struggling in sin’s consuming pit, and sent Christ Jesus, His Living Word (Psalm 107:17-22), to deliver us and all God asks in return is our praise, thanks, worship, and total trust, for God already knew we could not overcome sin’s lust, so He overcame it for us, so allow God, through Christ Jesus, by the Holy Spirit, to conquer sin’s lust for you—He will.
Jim Nabors
