Waterbrooke Christian Church

This Sunday’s message was called Every Spiritual Blessing. In Ephesians 1:3-14, the apostle Paul writes one long run-on sentence about the incredible riches of God’s grace in the gospel. One commentator called this section of Scripture “a snowball tumbling down a hill, and picking up volume as it descends.” (Sorry to bring up snow in September!) Paul praises God for the mind-blowing grace that He has shown us in Jesus Christ. For Paul, it really is undeserved. It is riches to rebels. It is lavish love completely at Christ’s expense. As Paul calls the Ephesian believers to pursue unity in gospel love for each other, he sets before them just how much God in Christ loved us when we did not love Him. The Father chose to give us the opposite of what we deserved. This week we are just going to look at verses 3-4. There we see God made the first move towards us. God was all in for our salvation before we would have or could have moved towards Him. The reason any of us belong to God is because God chose to save us fr