His Love Ministries
Episodes
Thursday Aug 29, 2013
EPHESIANS 1:8-11a IN HIM ALSO WE HAVE OBTAINED AN INHERITANCE
Thursday Aug 29, 2013
Thursday Aug 29, 2013
Eph 1:8 which He
made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us
the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in
Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might
gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which
are on earth--in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being
predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to
the counsel of His will,
God has made his
forgiveness abound to us because of His wisdom & foresight. He gives us
knowledge of His mysteries, the things which were hidden in the Old Testament, such as the
Jew & Gentile becoming one in the church. He did this so he could reconcile
everything back to himself as it was in the beginning of time. The Bible is the
story of man being created, falling & God working throughout time to
restore us to Him in the end. This
does not suggest that everyone will be saved; instead, sin’s disorder will be
removed & universal peace will be established (Isa. 2:2–4; 11:1–10). We also see that everything that God has will
ultimately belong to us too because we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
Wednesday Aug 14, 2013
EPHESIANS 1:7 REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
Wednesday Aug 14, 2013
Wednesday Aug 14, 2013
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
The first great
act of redemption in the Old Testament is the exodus, the deliverance of the
nation Israel from her bondage in Egypt. From the time of the exodus on this
event epitomized redemption in Exodus 6:6. Thus, the nation Israel not only
looked back in time, to see God’s redemption, but also to the future. They
called upon God to redeem them: Psalm 25:22 In order for God to bring
His elect people into the inheritance that He has in the future for them He,
must redeem them. Redemption is an act
of God by which He Himself pays as a ransom the price for sin which has
outraged His holiness. It means to pay a price to free somebody from bondage.
Everybody that comes into the world is
a captive, the Bible says. We are slaves. No man is free. Every person in the
world is a slave in their sinful state. And to whom are they slaves? Who is the
captor? Who is the captor of every man? Listen to this, John 8:34 says,
"Men are slaves to sin." Romans 6:17 says, "Men are servants to
sin." Romans 7:14; "Sold under sin." Romans 8:21; "In
bondage to corruption." What is the captor of men? Sin.
So, sin is the
captor that holds men. Now sin demands a price to be paid to release its
victim. What is that price? The price or the wage of sin is death. So in order
to purchase sinners from the grasp of sin there must be death. Without, says
Hebrews 9:22, the shedding of blood, which is simply a term for death, without
death there is no remission of sin. The soul that sinneth, the Old Testament
says, it shall die. All right, the wages or the price of sin is death. But
Jesus redeemed us. What does it mean? He paid the price of sin to free the
slave to set him free. That's the whole point of redemption. That is exactly
what He did. He paid the price to set us free.
We have been set
free from the law - In Galatians
chapter 5:1 it says; "For freedom Christ has set us free. Therefore stand fast and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage."
Set free from slavery to sin
Rom 6:6 knowing this, that our old man
was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from
sin.
Set free from the power of Satan and the world Gal 1:4 who gave
Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age,
according to the will of our God and Father
Wednesday Aug 07, 2013
EPHESIANS 1:3 BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
Wednesday Aug 07, 2013
Wednesday Aug 07, 2013
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having
predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the
good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which
He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
In this section we see that the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ. What are these
blessings? The first 3 chapters describe all of them. We will talk about three
of those blessings today. First we have
been chosen by God so that He could make us holy and without blame, next we
have been adopted as sons and have become part of the family of God, and lastly
we have been accepted in Jesus Christ the Beloved because of what He did on the
cross. To be accepted means we now are
approved of by God. Before we were
sinners not able to come into His presence and now we can because we are now
saints in the eyes of God because Jesus blood shed on the cross took away all
of our sins.