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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, The high mystery of election is taught in the Word of God, but some are afraid to speak of it. Not so our Apostle. He brings it out very...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
According as he hath chosen us in him,.... This choice cannot be understood of a national one, as Israel of old were chosen by the Lord; for the persons the apostle writes to were not a nation; nor does he address all the inhabitants of Ephesus, only the saints and faithful in Christ that resided there; nor are they all intended here, if any of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: The first great blessing of the covenant of grace is our election. We were chosen, but chosen in Christ — chosen not because we were holy, but chosen that we should be holy. The great object of the divine choice is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, That is the commencement of all the blessing, God’s electing love. This is the fountain from which the living waters flow. There would have been no stream of blessing to us at all if it had not been for this first primeval choice of us by God, even as Jesus said to his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That we should be holy and without blame before him in love: We are chosen, not because we are holy, but that we may be made holy. The election precedes the character, and is indeed the moving cause in producing the character. Before the foundation of the world, God chose us in Christ, “that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should he holy and without blame before him in love The apostle did not ignore the glorious and blessed doctrine of divine election; he delighted to meditate upon it, and to speak of it. I wish that some Christians, nowadays, were not so much afraid of it. All...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: What an inheritance! To be made holy. Oh, that we might be perfected as our Father which is in heaven is perfect, sanctified through and through. We are elected to this end: it is the very object of the divine...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will. You hear much about the free will of man, hear a little about the free will of God. You would think, from the talk of some, that God was man’s debtor and must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Having predestinated us,.... Predestination, taken in a large sense, includes both election and reprobation, and even reaches to all affairs and occurrences in the world; to the persons, lives, and circumstances of men; to all mercies, temporal or spiritual; and to all afflictions, whether in love or in wrath: and indeed providence, or the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, After election comes adoption. Men are not by nature the children of God but they are heirs of wrath. And this is very clear, because a man never adopts his own children. But adoption in itself proves that by nature we are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, Oh, what a blessing this is, altogether inconceivable in its results! “Behold what wondrous grace, The Father hath bestow’d On sinners of a mortal race, To call them sons of God!”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having predestinated us Having destined us before we were born, Eph_1:5. Unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, The chosen ones are adopted; they become the children of God. The universal Fatherhood of God, except in a very special sense, is a doctrine totally unknown to Scripture. God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Adoption follows predestination. We were chosen of God ere time began; and the result of that choice is, that he puts us into his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. It is well said, by an old writer, that there is no book, which is written with such brevity as the Bible; it seems to give us the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. See how Paul goes on taking one city after another of this heavenly Canaan. It was election, now it is adoption, now it is acceptance...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
To the praise of the glory of his grace,.... The grace of God manifestly appears in the predestination of men to adoption; in that God had no need of sons, he having a dear and well beloved one; in whom he is well pleased; and in that those he adopts are so unworthy of the relation; and in that men, and not angels, should be taken by him into his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Christ is so acceptable to God that that acceptance is sufficient to spread over all those who are in him. And tonight every believer here is accepted before God, but it is through Jesus Christ. Do notice that. Nothing comes but by that silver pipe. “He hath...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. There is music for you: “accepted in the Beloved.” Are there grander words in any language than those four? Oh, the joy of being beloved, adopted, accepted by God the Father because of his beloved Son! Now comes something more: —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. There is another precious doctrine, the acceptance of those who are adopted. We are beloved of God; he has a complacency toward us; he takes a delight in us; we are acceptable in his sight. Oh, what a blessing this is! But remember that it is all in Christ:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Are there four words in any language which contain choicer meaning than these, “Accepted in the Beloved”? Oh! if you can say that, if you can feel it to be true, you are among the happiest of men and women. “Accepted in the Beloved.” You can never be accepted...