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The Christ Gift (1 of 5)
Series: Ephesians
D. Marion Clark
Ephesians 1:1-3
Introduction
We are in the season of gift-giving or, depending on what excites you more, gift-receiving. We have the wonderful assistance of ads to help us with the process. Some gifts, we are told, are gifts ''that keep on giving,'' like the annual subscription for Sports Illustrated my brother gives me. There are practical gifts, gag gifts, sentimental gifts. There are gifts that are ''just right'' for the specific relationship. And then there is the ''perfect gift.'' That is the store card or general credit card that allows the recipient to purchase whatever he or she really wants. Of course, the greater the money amount on the card, the more perfect the perfect gift becomes!
For four Sunday evenings we will consider the gifts that God our Father considers to be the true perfect gifts that keep on giving blessing after blessing. This evening we begin with the gift through which all the other gifts come.
Text
Let me read again our text, and you should not have difficulty understanding what that special gift is.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful? in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
The special gift is the Christ-gift. Consider how just in these three verses he impacts everything.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
Paul is an apostle in the church made that way by the will of God. But Paul is an apostle of Christ Jesus. If he is not an apostle of Christ Jesus, he is an apostle of nothing. It is the Lord Jesus who stopped him in the middle of the road to Emmaus, who gave Paul the commission to carry his name ''before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel,'' even to ...
Series: Ephesians
D. Marion Clark
Ephesians 1:1-3
Introduction
We are in the season of gift-giving or, depending on what excites you more, gift-receiving. We have the wonderful assistance of ads to help us with the process. Some gifts, we are told, are gifts ''that keep on giving,'' like the annual subscription for Sports Illustrated my brother gives me. There are practical gifts, gag gifts, sentimental gifts. There are gifts that are ''just right'' for the specific relationship. And then there is the ''perfect gift.'' That is the store card or general credit card that allows the recipient to purchase whatever he or she really wants. Of course, the greater the money amount on the card, the more perfect the perfect gift becomes!
For four Sunday evenings we will consider the gifts that God our Father considers to be the true perfect gifts that keep on giving blessing after blessing. This evening we begin with the gift through which all the other gifts come.
Text
Let me read again our text, and you should not have difficulty understanding what that special gift is.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful? in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
The special gift is the Christ-gift. Consider how just in these three verses he impacts everything.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
Paul is an apostle in the church made that way by the will of God. But Paul is an apostle of Christ Jesus. If he is not an apostle of Christ Jesus, he is an apostle of nothing. It is the Lord Jesus who stopped him in the middle of the road to Emmaus, who gave Paul the commission to carry his name ''before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel,'' even to ...
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