THE SOURCE OF EVERY BLESSING (Eph 1:3)

Go ahead and start making your way in here. We'll go ahead and start with some announcements today. I know sometimes announcements can just become white noise and you hear them every week and you shut them out, but everyone pay very close attention to me.

Now I got your attention, right? All right, so today we actually have another new member class. So we did this two weeks ago and we had a full class two weeks ago and then we introduced some people last week as new members and today we actually have another one because we've had a couple other people step up and say, we couldn't make that one, we wanna come to a new member class, so we went ahead and scheduled it.

That does not mean that we don't have sermon Q &A after lunch today, it just means I'm not going to be doing the sermon Q &A. So I get to preach the sermon and then just leave and Pastor Jeremiah has to stay and pick up the pieces.

So if there's any heresy that I preach, call him out on it and really get on him, okay? But we're gonna do that, if you want to come to that new member class, everyone is welcome to be able to come to it, we're gonna meet over in the house and it's a good chance for you to really kind of get to know what it is.

Why do we believe what we believe? What is the distinguishing beliefs and ministry philosophy of 12 .5 and what does it mean to be a part of that? So you can come and be a part of that. I encourage you to get in the line for lunch first, if you could let anybody that's going to the class get their food so they can eat and then we can get that thing started so they don't end up here all day today with my long-windedness.

And so that leads me to the second thing, of course we have Koinonia Feast, fellowship feast that we do every single Sunday. If you're here for worship, I encourage you to stay for that. We have plenty of food.

I know Erica has ordered a bunch of pizzas also so we have ample food and you can stay and spend some time fellowshipping with us. Men, thank you for the table situation. You can see it's a little different in there.

Miss Brenda came yesterday and kind of rearranged. So what we want to do is we want to bring all the tables into this room. So as a matter of fact, to help us, if men, if we could bring all the tables in here right after service, set up about six to eight chairs at every table and then if you could fold the rest of the chairs and stack them against the walls.

That way we kind of have some room. It's not such chaos and we can fit everybody in here. Does that make sense? So thank you all for doing that. Wednesday nights, we're back to normal. We've just finished that eschatology overview series that was gonna be five weeks, ended up being six weeks because of the ice storm.

But now we start back in June. This Wednesday night is the adults in here. It's a very dialogue type of Bible study and the youth get back into 1 John and they're over at the house. We also meet every single Tuesday morning.

This building is open from the hour of seven to eight o 'clock in the morning. And this building is open for the purpose of prayer. We want to be a praying people. We want to go to the source. We want to seek God and his wisdom and his guidance as a people.

We want to pray for each other. We want to pray for this community. We want to pray for the world. And so we pick that time. Some of you can come in before work and pray. Some of you can squeeze in for five or six minutes and that's what it's designed for.

Come on by, pray with us. Let's just spend some time in prayer. So every Tuesday morning, this building is open from seven to eight. Which by the way, if you have prayer requests, please let us know so that people can be praying for you on that time.

Greeter schedule, thank you. Thank you for serving. Everyone that is a member is on the greeter's schedule. Just be sure to look at the calendar on band and mark your dates. As you can see too, we have a parking issue.

And so we have the front house up there that a few cars have agreed to park at. And we're working through the shuttle thing. I literally found out as I'm standing at the door that Blake and Miriam walked with their hands full of food from the front house to the back.

That's not what it's meant for. We wanna send somebody up to get you. But it allows for some more parking. One last announcement, our friends at Grace, Baptist and Paragould, there are some members that have the Arkansas Equal Protection.

And they have a meeting and they're part of End Abortion Now from Apologia Church or studios or whatever ministry that is. But they have some bills in for the state of Arkansas to end abortion, a very good program.

And they have a meeting. If you wanna be involved in that ministry, you wanna know more about it, Thursday, February 16th at 6 p .m. And so if you want that information, come see us. We'll give you the link for that and you can go be a part of that.

All right, that's the end of our announcements. So what's next? Pray for another church. We have other brothers and sisters that are gathering this morning all over town, all over the community, all over the world.

And let's pray for one of them specifically, that God will work in them. And as we speak of Grace Baptist, we've chosen to pray for Grace Baptist this morning. These are brothers and sisters over in Paragould, very like-minded.

And God is doing some neat things over there. That church has been in existence for a few years now and they've had some ups and downs. But the pastor there, Michael Selesky, has been diligent to preach the word over the past year or so, and they're seeing growth.

People are coming in, people are growing spiritually. So I've asked them what we should be praying for. And one of the first things that they said was they diverted the prayer and they asked for prayer for their missionaries in Ecuador.

And so we wanna pray for their missionaries there in Ecuador. But also he said, hey, with this church growth, please pray for us that we would be able to shepherd our people well, that people wouldn't fall between the cracks and kinda get lost in the mix, and that we could shepherd them and guide them and be diligent with them.

So let's now bow our heads and pray for those things for Grace Baptist. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we come to you this morning. We thank you for your provision in our lives. We thank you for your purposes that will stand.

Yeah, we thank you for other brothers and sisters that are gathering to worship you this morning, all over town, all over the community and the world. And Lord, we just wanna lift them up, and specifically our brothers and sisters at Grace Baptist in Perigold.

Lord, I pray for them. I know a number of those people there that are dear saints that love you, care for your church, and wanna serve each other, serve others, and ultimately serve you. So God, I pray that you give them strength and wisdom and discernment.

God, I pray that Pastor Michael, that as he prepares to preach this morning, that you would give him boldness and clarity of thought. Lord, I pray you open the ears of the hearers, that they would hear that truth clearly.

God, I pray that you would be worshiped in spirit and truth in their midst this morning. God, as they grow, as you bring other saints into their midst, I pray that they would be able to be good stewards of what you bring to them, that they would be able to shepherd the people well, that they would be diligent to pour into the lives of other believers and equip the saints for the good work.

God, I pray for their heart, for their missionaries in Ecuador. I don't know these missionaries myself, but you do, you've called them, you've placed them on a mission. God, I just lift them up to you.

Whatever needs they have at the moment that you would fill them. Whatever circumstances they're in that you would grant them peace and that you would grant them strength. I pray that their ministry efforts would be fruitful.

We know that they will, because your word does not return void. It may not look like they want it to look, God, but it's gonna look exactly how you want it to look. So God, I pray that you would use them, bless them, guard them, and grow them.

In Christ's name, amen, amen. Well, let's start our worship this morning. Let's stand for a call to worship as we prepare our hearts and minds to praise our heavenly father. Our call to worship this morning comes from Psalm 138, and it's the first five verses in a read and response as we always do.

But the psalmist says, we give you thanks, O Lord, with our whole heart. We sing your praise. We bow down towards your holy temple and give thanks to your name. We thank you, Lord, for your steadfast love and your faithfulness.

On this day we called and you answered us. Our strength of soul you increased, for they have heard the words of your mouth and they shall sing of the ways of the Lord. And all God's people said.

Let's pray our prayer of adoration this morning. God, we thank you, Lord. Thank you for bringing us here to worship and honor your name. God, we thank you for your goodness, your protection, your provision throughout this week, Lord.

God, we just praise you for being so good to us, God. We thank you, Lord. God, as we come here this morning to worship you, I just pray that you open our eyes to hear the word, to open our ears to hear the word, and I just pray that your spirit would change us, Father God, from the inside out, that we would be more like you.

We thank you, Lord God, for this time together in your name we pray, amen.

God, we thank you.

Scripture reading, we're gonna take a break from the Psalms this week. I wanted us to read this portion of Romans chapter eight together as a family. Really drives home the great truth that we just sang, that God is for us.

And it really aligns with the passage we're gonna be in Ephesians today. So I wanna start reading here in Romans chapter eight, starting in verse 31, where Paul says, what then shall we say to these things?

If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?

It is God who justifies. It is Christ who is to condemn. Christ Jesus is the one who died. More than that, who was raised. Who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, for your sake we are being killed.

All the day long.

We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen? Amen.

What a great truth for us to hold to. God is for us.

God, we praise you Father that your word is true. That you are true in what you say. That you are for us, not against us. We praise you God.

In my heart goes faint with the darkness of heaven. And my fears are pressing in. Trusting you inside. Oh my son, my salvation, my son.

As we continue our time of worship this morning and giving, I just pray God that your Holy Spirit would move in this church body. God. We thank you Lord God. Thank you for the provisions, for the grace God.

Mercy new every morning, we praise you for it. God I just ask that you would use this church body to honor and glorify you with what we have. With the gifts that you've given us, the provisions you've blessed us with.

Help us Father God to see that kingdom work.

Copy of God's word to Ephesians chapter one. We have finally made it out of the greeting. Today is week five and we are starting in verse three today. But here's what I'd like for us to do. I want us to read a whole big section.

So let's start in verse three of Ephesians chapter one. The Apostle Paul says blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ. According to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace with which he has blessed us in the beloved.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses. According to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight. Making known to us the mystery of his will according to the purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time to unite all things in him.

Things in heaven and things on earth. In him we have obtained an inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. So that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believed in him were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory.

That's a lot, isn't it? That's a lot of good. Well, let's stop now. Let's go to the Lord again. Let's go to the source. Let's go to the author of this and let's ask that he would illuminate our hearts and minds to these truths.

Dear Heavenly Father, we come to you once again and we humbly acknowledge our frailty, our finite mindset that has been corrupted by sin in this world because your word is true, it is clear, it is precise that sometimes we have difficulty comprehending.

Sometimes we distort it. Sometimes we misunderstand it. Sometimes we just ignore it. But God, help us.

Help me.

Father, work in our hearts. We, if we are in Christ today, have the indwelling Holy Spirit within us that is there to illuminate spiritual truths to our hearts and minds. So I pray that we would see it.

Help me to speak only truth from your word today that it would be clear in Christ's name, amen. Well, we're obviously not going to get far into what we have just read. However, over the next few weeks, we are going to seek and more than likely start off by reading this whole section, verses three through 14.

And the reason for that is, is that despite what you see in your English translation of God's word, these verses all the way from three to 14, what we just read as a whole is actually one sentence in the Greek.

It's the longest run-on sentence in all of scripture. It was as if Paul was so excited to share these great truths with other saints, with the saints in Ephesus and all over in other churches and the saints here at 12 .5.

He was so excited to share these truths that as soon as he finishes that greeting that we spent the last four weeks looking at, which was his common way of greeting and letting people know who he is and imparting grace and peace upon them, as soon as he gets through with that, he didn't even take a breath until he could finish this thought.

He jumps right in. And as you begin to study this, this one massive sentence, you begin to understand why this truth was bursting out of the apostle Paul, why he couldn't contain himself. It was flowing out of him because this is what Paul truly wanted to speak about.

And here's the thing. I think if you're a believer, this is what you truly wanna think about. This is what you want to speak about. This is what should consume our thoughts and our minds. I mentioned last week that the apostle Paul, he often has to write to churches dealing with issues.

So for example, he has to deal with the sin that's in the church in Corinth and he needs to write dealing with that sin, encouraging them theologically to address this sin. He has to deal with the false gospel that's being spread when he writes the book of Galatians.

When he writes this letter, he's having to deal with false teachers. He's having to deal with circumstances. He's having to deal with a broken world. And praise God, he's willing to do that. And we should all be willing to do that.

We should all be willing to address the sinfulness and the brokenness that is within these walls and within the church. But that, here's the thing, that should not be our go-to. This can't be our go-to.

Have you ever seen the type of Christians that are the heresy police? It's almost as if they're consumed with dealing with the issues and that's what drives them. But that wasn't the apostle Paul. The apostle Paul's willing to address these issues and he deals with them as he needs to.

But no, there's something else on Paul's mind that he really wants to deal with. And I believe that's exactly what we're seeing exemplified by him here in the book of Ephesians. Yes, he deals with the issues as needed, but he really wants to talk about this and it's similar to Jude, Jesus' brother.

If you've been with us on Wednesday nights, as we've gone through this letter from Jude, what does he say near the beginning? Right there in verse three, he says, hey, beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation.

This is what Jude wants to talk about. He goes, I'm eager to write to you, like my longing, what I desire, what I want most in this life is to talk about salvation. I wanna talk about what unifies us.

But notice what he says right after that. But he says, but I found it necessary to write to you, appealing to you, to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints, because there were false teachers in that church and he had to address the issues.

Willing to, but that's not where Jude's heart was. And here in this book in Ephesians, in this one long sentence from the Apostle Paul, we see the whole of God's redemptive plan. We see the entire big picture just pouring out of him.

It's as if he doesn't even take a breath. He doesn't even put a period in the sentence to break it up, to make it functional and chewable for us. Now he's like, it just comes out of him and it just, he can't stop.

We see the past, we see the present, we see the future of God's eternal plan laid out right here in these few verses. This plan for his people is clearly laid out by the Apostle Paul here. And I want you to see kind of an overview of this one sentence.

In the first few verses, in verses three through six, we see God's plan from eternity past. His plan through election. And then in the last part of verse six, up through verse 11, we see the present redemption that is ours in Christ Jesus.

And then he closes out this sentence in verses 12 through 14 and he's showing us our future inheritance that is ours in Christ Jesus. And this is the very means that we, who were once enemies of God, have been brought into communion with God.

This is why Paul wants to talk about this, isn't it? This is what consumes him. If you are in Christ, you have been saved, right? You ever heard that phrase? I've been saved. I'm being saved. And I will be saved.

This is what Paul is, it's just, it's coming out of him. And we know this because of what Paul said in Philippians, right, that he who began a good work in you will see it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.

He has done a good work, God the Father has elected you, and God the Holy Spirit will see it through in sanctification and it will be accomplished at the day of Christ Jesus because of Christ Jesus. But notice how Paul starts off speaking about this magnificent truth.

Look at our verse here, verse three. He says, blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. There's much talk about salvation, isn't there? We hear it often from Christians and churches. Many churches speak of the gospel every single week.

They're always trying to get people to come down the aisle and say a prayer. They're constantly trying to close the deal. And a lot of talk about salvation, and we should. Churches should, I'm glad that they did.

I'm glad they do, we should. Yet more often than not, in our cultural context, that talk has very little resemblance to this massive sentence by Paul, especially with how Paul begins. When the subject of salvation arises, it generally starts with the blessing.

The blessing of salvation. And there is a blessing in salvation. But that's where it starts usually in our conversation. And even worst case scenarios, it begins with the blessed. Here's what I mean. The recipient of that blessing is who?

Me.

And when we talk about this great salvation today, it typically starts with me. Starts with me. And you've heard it said before. Jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. That's a bold statement.

For one, how do you know Jesus loves them? And two, how do you know he has a wonderful plan for their life? Because what you're meaning by wonderful may not be what God's plan for them is. Because his plan for them might be destruction.

But that's where we usually start. Yet Paul starts with something totally different. Where does Paul start? The source. He starts with the source. Paul starts out this amazing conversation, this beautiful truth of this blessing of salvation.

He starts with praise. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It all starts with God. He grounds everything in this sentence all the way up through verse 14. Every bit of it. The election, the predestination, the adoption.

Everything that you see up through verse 14. He grounds with the acknowledgement fed from worship flowing out of praise to the origin of this blessed hope. This is where Paul starts. Let's look in great detail at this.

This word blessing in the Greek, eulogia, is the word that's used here. It's where we get our word eulogy. You can hear the connection there. Maybe that'll spark some memory here. It's where we get our word eulogy, which we use often in context of a funeral, right?

Where we honor someone, we acknowledge them, we praise them, we put a spotlight on their accomplishments. But unlike deceased loved ones, this word is being attest to what?

To God.

It's being attested to a living and active, all-powerful, holy, perfect creator. As we see in Romans chapter 11, for from him and through him and to him are all things. He's the source. So if we're going to talk about salvation, as a matter of fact, I'll take it even further.

If we're gonna talk about creation, if we're gonna talk about marriage, if we're gonna talk about preaching, if we're gonna talk about mathematics, if we're gonna talk about science, if we're gonna talk about our vocation, if we're gonna talk about logic, if we're gonna talk about anything and everything within all of creation, it must start with the source.

God.

People think I'm crazy when I say something like along these lines you realize two plus two only equals four because God. I had a teacher look at me like that's the dumbest statement I've ever heard. Like why would I ever teach my students that math has a connection to God.

Well there's a reason for that order and logic apart from him makes absolutely no sense. There is there is no mathematics there is no science there is no logic there is no thinking. There is nothing apart from the source.

And just for the simple fact of who he is makes him worthy of all blessing and praise. As Paul starts this sentence off blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ all of creation even the pagan who will live out their life never hearing the name Jesus.

Right. Let's take somebody that's in a foreign land. The missionaries have not made it there and that person lives out their life and dies and they never heard the name of Jesus. They still owe him that adoration and worship.

They still owe it to him. Now here's the thing. So how much more do you. And I owe him praise. So it has to start here. It has to start with God. It starts with praise to God because he is the source of it.

As we talk over the next few weeks of all of the things that Paul goes through in this one long sentence we're gonna see predestined God. He's the source chosen God. He's the source adopted God. He's the source in Christ God he's the source.

Everything has to go back to him. So praise God for that amazing tremendous blessing. Look back at our passage. Here we owe him praise because blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ.

We see this word blessed in the Greek it's it's different. We see the same word but it's essentially the same word in a different form in the Greek. And that first one you like yeah. Right. That's the way that's a way that Paul writes it in the Greek.

But here who has blessed us. You like Gale it's essential the same word in different form. That first one is an adjective form meaning it's essentially attributing blessing to God. But the second one is in the verb form.

It's describing an action. Now bear with me here for a moment. Some of you may have detached to just now. You're like I don't do well with English. Please don't talk about that stuff. I'm lost now bear with me.

There's a reason for this. We need we need to be students of this. Right. If we would understand the the specifics of God's Word we need to be students of this. We need to understand these distinctions because we're looking at the same word.

But it has different purpose. We see to God it's being attributed. Do we see to us. It's a it's an action word. It's described as an action that is being done towards us. Meaning that we are not blessing God.

Yeah. That we're not blessing God by adding something or giving something to him. We often think of praising God. That we're bringing something to God. We're bringing worship to God. And and we are in the same way that my seven-year-old brings me my quarter that she found in the couch all.

Right. We're not giving them something him something it belongs to him. He already has all of the praise and all of the worship and all of the glory. It all belongs to him. And we're not adding anything to him.

We're simply participating in this. We're acknowledging and pointing out what is already his. And we do so because of what he has actively done for us he has blessed us in Christ. Again. If all of creation owes him allegiance if all of creation owes him love and worship even the ones who are designated as vessels for dishonorable use.

Then how much more do you and I the recipients of such blessing owe him our utmost praise. Now here's the beautiful part. Before Christ we were utterly incapable of blessing God. Weren't we that that person who's never heard the name of Jesus he owes God the praise and worship.

He's fully incapable of doing. He has no power to do so. We're commanded to do so. And you and I before before Christ were commanded to do so. But our master separated us from him. Didn't he who was our master sin.

We're slaves to sin is what Paul says. We were entrapped by it and we had to obey it. And we could not worship God as commanded. Not only did it separate us from him. It caused us to be at total enmity with him.

Didn't it. This is. Romans 8 says. For the mind that is set on the flesh is indifferent to God. Is that what it says. And it's not what it says. It says. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile towards God.

For it does not submit to God's law. Indeed it cannot. That was the state. That's the state of humanity. That was the state of you and I before Christ. But praise God. For three verses later there in Romans 8.

And verse 10 says. But if Christ is in you. Right. If you're in Christ. If Christ is in you. If you're in Christ if Christ is in you it's the same thing. If Christ is in you you are in Christ. You are one.

He's brought you in to unity with the triune God. And you are in him. If you are in Christ. If Christ is in you although the body is dead because of sin the spirit is life because of righteousness. The spirit is life because of righteousness.

What righteousness. Christ's righteousness. An imputed righteousness. A righteousness that wasn't mine. That wasn't yours. That we could not conjure up that we could not do. We couldn't obey a law perfectly.

We couldn't obey the law at all. Even when we thought we could obey the law by by not coveting or not stealing from our brother we still had covetousness in our own heart. Right. We still broke the law.

We can't keep it. But that righteousness that's imputed from Christ who never broke the law. That's what it means to be blessed in Christ. It's a beautiful thing right. This is why we of all people should bless our Heavenly Father to worship him to serve him to praise him.

And now because of that righteousness of Christ we can do so we were commanded to before we couldn't do it. So God steps in says I choose you. I call you my child. And the Holy Spirit comes in and awakens you from death to life takes the heart of stone and gives you a heart of flesh awakens you from death to life.

And now you see the beauty of what he has provided in Christ. The third the second person of the Godhead. Right that Christ came and paid the penalty for you. And now you have faith in what he's done.

And now you were brought into unity and you have been given righteousness. And God says oh now you can praise me. Now you can worship me. Now you can commune with me. Now you can love me before you couldn't.

But now you can because of my sacrifice because of the great work of the triune God. If this doesn't stir us up if that if that truth doesn't drive you to want to fall on your face and worship and praise towards our Heavenly Father.

Something's wrong with your soul friend. Something's deeply wrong either. You've never experienced that that imputed righteousness in your life at all. Or you have been you've been sit in an unrepentant sin and it out of communion with God because of your sin.

What has God the Father blessed us in Christ with. Look at our verse again says blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

Well here's that word again. Bless. Blessed blessing again. Remember the first one is an adjective. It's toward God. The second one is a verb. It's towards us. Lastly this third mention of this same word.

It's the same form of the word but it's in the form of a noun. We have obtained blessing. Right. However this blessing is not open-ended in the way that we would possibly distort it. Meaning if we're left to assume what these blessings are we would have a propensity to only see them within the physical realm.

Right. That's our nature anytime we think of blessing anytime we think of of God working in our lives it's usually only in ways that we can tangibly see that we can tangibly feel that we tangibly experience.

And they're usually material things. And so our minds just have a propensity to go in that direction. And he's he's obviously the source of material blessing. We know that God is not promised material blessing.

He's not promised physical blessing. Despite many false teachers claims he does not care whether you are financially successful or wealthy or not. As a matter of fact he's the one that provides financial security and wealth.

But he also he also provides destitute brokenness. You have some Christians that live with a lot of external blessings. Don't they. But you have a lot of Christians that live in the gutter with nothing and die as a martyr and everything in between.

That's God's prerogative. Those are blessings. But we have a propensity to see them. One way we have our own perceived a perceived idea of what a blessing is. But either way all those material things are still blessings from God.

Well this word this word that we see spiritual in the Greek is pneumatic. Us. It's another Greek word here bear with me if some of you may be familiar with the sound of that word. If you have done any study on the topic of pneumatology which is the study of the Holy Spirit.

Okay very similar word because it comes from the same source. And this word spiritual is always used in Scripture in relation to the work of the Holy Spirit. Always. So Paul is not identifying material or spiritual blessings.

He's not making that distinction. Is he. Paul's not making a distinction. He is pointing to the divine origin of the blessing. You with me. Paul's not saying material blessings or spiritual blessings and making a distinction between the two.

What he's doing is he's tying it to the work of the Holy Spirit. We see the triune God all through this big long sentence of the Apostle Paul. He's tying it to the work of the Holy Spirit. John MacArthur says it like this.

He says spiritual refers to the source not the extent of the blessing. And what does this mean for us. What does this mean as we look at the Apostle Paul's words here and say who's blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.

It's because he has blessed us in Christ. We have now big been given absolutely everything we need. You hear that when you think that you have need if God has not filled that need it means it's not a need.