BIBLE STUDY EPHESI. Ch1 WK1 Part 1️⃣ 9.10.24 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Christ’s BlessIngs 

💥NOTES (A)💥 Revivaltime Restoration Worship Center Tuesday Evening BIBLE STUDY SERIES: Book Of Ephesians Ch1 WEEK 1 PART 📍 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Spiritual Blessings In Christ📍 ●INTRODUCTION● ●Themes & Doctrines Of Christianity ● ●Your Identity in Christ● ●Apostles Anointed • Saints Set Apart● ●positional sanctification) & (progressive sanctification)● ●15 Spiritual Blessings We Have In Christ (Apostle Paul) ●Chosen before the foundation of the world With Bishop Worrell Hylton September 10, 2024 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Spiritual Blessings In Christ Ephesians Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION ●Ephesus was a wealthy port city in the Roman province of Asia. It was a center of learning and was near several key land routes. The apostle Paul wrote this letter to the churches in Ephesus and the surrounding region c. A.D. 62 while imprisoned in Rome (Acts 28). During this time, he also wrote Colossians and Philemon. All three letters were sent with Tychicus and Onesimus. Ephesians offers general instruction in the truths of God’s redemptive work in Christ; the unity of the church among diverse peoples; and proper conduct in the church, the home, and the world. ●Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is different compared to many of the other New Testament letters he wrote. Like Romans, Ephesians was not written so much to address problems in a particular church; more so, it was written to explain some of the great themes and doctrines of Christianity● ●The great themes and doctrines of Christianity● I. All people are by nature spiritually dead. They disobey God’s law and are ruled by Satan (1:7; 2:1-3, 5, 11-12). II. God predestined his people to redemption and holiness in Christ (1:3-14; 2:4, 8-9). III. God’s rich mercy in Christ has saved sinners. This free gift is by grace through faith alone (1:7-8; 2:4-14). IV. Jesus’ saving work was part of redeeming a fallen creation for God. For this, he deserves glory, honor, and authority in this age and the next (1:15-23; 3:1-13). V. Jesus unites Jews and Gentiles into his one body, the church, as a new creation (1:23; 2:10-22; 3:1-21; 4:1-6). VI. Christ’s people are saved to new lives of holiness in thought, word, and deed. They must reject their old, sinful lifestyles (4:1-3, 17-32; 5:1-20). VII. Holiness in life includes submission to proper authorities, in home and family life, and those in authority must care for those in submission to them (5:21-6:9). VIII. Jesus has given powerful gifts to his church. These bring unity, maturity, and defense against the devil and his allies (4:7-16; 6:10-19). ●YOUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST● As followers of Christ, it is extremely vital that we know and understand our identity in Christ. ●YOU ARE A SAINT Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are at Ephesus and who are faithful in Christ Jesus: 2Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul "an apostle". ●The term "apostle" comes from the Greek verb "to send" (apostellō). ●This is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew term "messiah" (see Special Topic at Col. 1:1; cf. Dan. 9:25-26; John 1:41; 4:25), which meant "an anointed one" (cf. Matt. 1:16). It implies "one called and equipped by God for a specific task."● ●In the OT three groups of leaders: priests, kings, and prophets were anointed.● Paul says he is an Apostle "by the will of God", Paul was convinced that God had chosen him to be an Apostle. This special sense of calling began at his Damascus road conversion (cf. Acts 9; 22; 26). This was also a theological way of asserting his apostolic authority.

💥NOTES (B)💥 Revivaltime Restoration Worship Center Tuesday Evening BIBLE STUDY SERIES: Book Of Ephesians Ch1 WEEK 1 PART 📍 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Spiritual Blessings In Christ📍 ●INTRODUCTION● ●Themes & Doctrines Of Christianity ● ●Your Identity in Christ● ●Apostles Anointed • Saints Set Apart● ●positional sanctification) & (progressive sanctification)● ●15 Spiritual Blessings We Have In Christ (Apostle Paul) ●Chosen before the foundation of the world With Bishop Worrell Hylton September 10, 2024 God’s Plan Is To Lavish You With All Spiritual Blessings In Christ Ephesians Chapter 1 ●TO THE SAINTS WHO ARE IN EPHESUS: Paul described the Ephesian believers as ●God’s holy people (NIV) or saints. It doesn’t mean we are perfect. To be means that you are no longer defined by your sin, but by the righteousness of Christ.● The Greek word ‘hagios‘ translated as saint, means “set apart and dedicated as holy unto the LORD.” That is what we are as Christians (see 1 Peter 2:9,10). ●God's people are holy because of the imputed righteousness of Jesus (cf. Romans 4; II Cor. 5:21). God set us apart as his own "treasured possession" to be a "holy nation" through which God make himself known to the world. ● ●In the New Testament, believers in Jesus Christ are referred to as "saints" or "holy people" because they are set apart by God as the bride of Christ. ● ●A saint is simply a sinner who has discovered the marvelous grace of God through Christ Jesus.● Paul refers to the believers as “those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus.” ●To be sanctified means, “to be made clean, to be separated and set apart for a purpose.”● 1 Corinthians 6:11: “And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” Hebrews 10:10: “We have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all.” We are called “to be saints together will all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” ●The word “Sanctify” and “saint” come from the same root word in Greek. Saint is the noun form of sanctified. When you are saved, you are immediately set apart because you now belong to Christ.● It is God's will that we live holy lives (cf. 1:4; 2:10; 4:1; 5:27; Col. 1:22; 3:12; Matt. 5:48). ●Believers are both declared holy (positional sanctification) ●and called to lifestyle holiness (progressive sanctification). Justification and sanctification must be affirmed together! Ephesians 1:3 "Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in Christ:" ●Spiritual blessings are invisible blessings; heavenly gifts that are invisible and intangible, and yet they alone, are able to completely satisfy our souls.● Ephesians 1:4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. ●Paul gave us 15 Spiritual Blessings We Have In Christ.● ●1. Chosen Before the Foundation of the World (v.4) Notice that this is the first blessing in Christ from the heavenly places that we have received. “He chose us in him before the foundation of the world.” We are chosen by God before He said, let there be light. ●To know you’ve been chosen before the foundation of the world is to know that your life matters. Your existence isn’t an accident or by-product of natural selection. God has been thinking about your destiny before He ever said, “Let there be light.●” ●The imagery of being chosen comes from the Old Testament. Israel was chosen by God. Listen to how Moses describes the selection of Israel in Deuteronomy 7. “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 7:6-8 ESV)● ●There was nothing that Israel did to warrant their selection as God’s people. God simply said, “You are my people” and therefore Israel was set apart from the world to be his people. They were not chosen by God for who they were or what they had done.● In Ephesians 1:3. Paul says that we were chosen to be a holy and blameless people. Moses says the same to Israel that they are a holy people to the Lord, chosen to be his treasured possession. Before the foundation of the world. Paul says that “we were chosen in him before the foundation of the world.” This tells us that our election cannot be based on our actions. God chose us before the creation. Before the worlds were established, we were selected. Before anything was ever made and before any human walked the earth, God says that he chose us in Christ. ●Before anyone was made, God decided that he was going to have you as one of those who would belong to him and therefore, He sets you apart for him.● ● Election means that the existence of the people of God can be explained only on the basis of God’s character, plan, and action, not on some quality in the people who are chosen.● The initiative is always based on God’s grace. Before the foundation of the world were laid, God had determined that all who believed in his Son should be saved. For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. (Isaiah 14:1 ESV) But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; 9 you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”; 10 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isaiah 41:8-10 ESV). ●Only two men, Joshua and Caleb, were granted access to the promised land and did not perish in that desert.● The people were elected by God, but few showed themselves to be the offspring of Abraham. ●In the beginning, only the people who had the heritage of being Israelites had access. But even though Israel was elected by God, many of them were not truly God’s people. Then God made a promise to open the doors of access to the whole world to belong in relationship to him.● 💥 But our election calls for us to continue in faith toward the one who called us.💥