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May 9, 2016
We thank and praise God for His good gifts day by day, and rightly so. But biblical figures also focused their praise on God Himself—both His deeds and His character. D. A. Carson leads us through Paul’s great passage of praise in Ephesians 1, drawing our attention to the spiritual blessings that are ours in Christ. Because He has chosen and adopted us, redeemed and forgiven us, shown us His great plan for humanity, and claimed us as His own, our lives should be, as Paul wrote, “to the praise of His glory.”
3eBlessed be fthe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing gin the heavenly places, 4heven as he ichose us in him jbefore the foundation of the world, that we should be kholy and blameless before him. In love 5lhe predestined us2 for madoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, naccording to the purpose of his will, 6oto the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in pthe Beloved. 7qIn him we have rredemption sthrough his blood, tthe forgiveness of our trespasses, uaccording to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9vmaking known3 to us the mystery of his will, naccording to his purpose, which he wset forth in Christ 10as a plan for xthe fullness of time, yto unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11In him we have obtained zan inheritance, ahaving been predestined baccording to the purpose of him who works all things according to cthe counsel of his will, 12so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be dto the praise of his glory. 13In him you also, when you heard ethe word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, fwere sealed with the gpromised Holy Spirit, 14who is hthe guarantee4 of our iinheritance until jwe acquire kpossession of it,5 lto the praise of his glory.
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