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Introduction
Paul bursts into adoration here in our verse.
He doesn’t work His way up to it, he jumps right in.
This shows us that he cannot contain his joy and that he is thrilled with the truths the he presents in the following verses.
The truth of what God has done in Christ has so grasped his heart that he bursts forth in exultation of His great God!
These next set of verses are definitely high ground.
They are a summary of God’s working in the salvation of every believer.
They should cause us to worship and adore our God just like they did Paul.
A Good God/The Source of our Praise
To Bless God means to give him praise.
To commend him as God and worthy of praise.
Blessing God is the normal for Christians.
His Goodness
We bless God because He is Good!
God is the very definition of goodness.
Psalm 47:
He is the source of all goodness in this world.
Therefore he is worthy of our worship!
This means we praise God when we feel like it and when we don’t.
At all times and in all circumstances God is worthy of Praise.
His Goodness revealed as being a Father
God has revealed Himself as a Father, and that the Father of Jesus Christ.
We don’t fully understand this or comprehend it, but we dare not pass it over.
In eternity past, this good God was expressing His goodness always towards His Son.
(God doesn’t need us, he had the Son!)
God’s Good Gifts/Fuel for our Praise
God manifests his goodness through giving.
to bless (favor) v. — to invoke (or enact) divine favor, often implying a positive disposition or kind actions toward the recipient.
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God’s Goodness to all (Common Grace)
These are life and material blessings that come to all people.
All people don’t experience the same degree of them, but they all experience God’s goodness manifested to them.
This is why sin is so heinous, it is the slighting of the goodness of God!
God’s Special Goodness to His People
God delights in showering his goodness to his People!
This is just the introduction to the catalogue of what this Spiritual Blessing Is, we won’t discuss that today but lets mention them.
The Blessings are but aren’t limited to:
Election, adoption, redemption, forgiveness of sins, the Revelation of God’s purpose in history, sealing by the Holy Spirit, an eternal inheritance.
-They are exhaustive
“every”… God did not hold back when providing for the redemption of His people.
He provided all spiritual blessings.
God emptied his storehouse of blessings and poured them out.
He didn’t hold back in pouring out his goodness and kindness on you!
He lavished them on you.
God cannot give us more than He has already given us in His Son.
There is nothing more to receive.
The believer’s need, therefore, is not to receive something more but to do something more with what he has.
Mcarthur
-They are spiritual/heavenly
God’s best gifts are not material.
This world has the stain of sin on it.
God delights in giving the best gifts, that’s why they are spiritual, in the heavenly places.
We don’t judge God’s affection for us based on our outward circumstances!
We can be thankful for the good that comes in our life and rejoice knowing that God gives good gifts.
But we judge God’s affections towards us by our spiritual inheritance.
These are untouched by our circumstances and offer us a wonderful hope.
Are you down, defeated, believer?
Praise God today as an act of the will for providing you with good things that satisfy and are untouched by this world!
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They are in Christ!
All of our Spiritual Blessings come to us through Christ.
It is because of our attachment to Christ that we have God’s spiritual blessings!
We have no spiritual blessings apart from Christ.
The priest or Mary can’t give you spiritual blessings.
The pope can’t give you spiritual blessings.
Muhammad can’t give you these spiritual blessings.
Buddah can’t give you these spiritual blessings.
Only Christ and in Christ do you find the special favor and blessings of God!
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