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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: 5having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6to the praise of the glory of his grace, (Ephesians 1:3-6)
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The word "even as" he chose us and foreordained us unto the adoption as sons is the example that demonstrates we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing. If you do not understand when that happened or what these blessings are then it is hard to understand what it means to be chosen and foreordained unto the adoption as sons.
For example:
Galatians 3:9 says We were blessed with Abraham when he received 7 blessings. Ephesians chapter 1 gives us the story of Genesis from Abraham all the way to Joseph, Prince of Egypt.
First blessing to Abraham — “Unto a land that I will show thee”.
Ephesians 1 ends with this prayer —
that we might know the power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, and he put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church.
It is a blessing that we could have a spirit of wisdom and revelation to know this Christ.
The six books of Ephesians walk through the 7 blessings given to Abraham. These 7 blessings are the structure for the book as well as being the structure for the first 6 books of the Bible (Genesis through Joshua). But after seeing that you will see that all 7 of these blessings are involved in our being chosen and foreordained unto adoption as sons.