August 17, 2025

Bless the Blesser for His Blessings

Teacher: Tim Paulding Series: Ephesians Topic: God's Secret Purposes Revealed Passage: Ephesians 1:3

Bless the Blesser for His Blessings (Ephesians 1:3) 

Ephesians 1:3–14 blessings:

  1. Election. “chose us” (vs. 4)
  2. Sanctification. “to be holy and blameless” (vs. 4)
  3. Adoption. “by predestinating us to adoption” (vs. 5)
  4. Redemption/forgiveness. (vs. 7)
  5. Revelation. “wisdom and insight” (vss. 8–9)
  6. Inheritance. (vss. 11, 14)
  7. Sealing by the Holy Spirit (vss. 13–14) 

Bless the Blesser for the Blessings:

 The Blessed One 

Psalm 41:3; 106:48 

2 Corinthians 1:3; Romans 1:25; 9:5 

1 Peter 1:3–5 

John 20:17; Revelation 1:6; 1 Corinthians 15:24 

John 1:23 (w/ Isaiah 40:3)

 

  1. The Blesser 

Numbers 6:23–26 

Genesis 1:22, 28; 

Genesis 12:1–3; 24:34–35 (w/ Galatians 3:13–14)

 

  1. The Blessees… “the saints … who are faithful in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 1:1b)

 

  1. The Blessings 

Deuteronomy 28:1–4, 15; 29:2–4; 30:6 

Jeremiah 31:33–34 

1 Corinthians 2:14–14 

1 Corinthains 2:9 

John 17:24 

1 Peter 1:4 

Ephesians 1:20; 2:4–7 

1 Corinthians 1:30–31 

Ephesians 2:10