Blessed & Redeemed

June 16, 2024 | Ephesians 1.7-10 | Rob Collis

From the very beginning of his letter to the church in Ephesus, the Apostle Paul’s writing and imagination is steeped in God’s activity in Jesus Christ. And he wants us to get caught up in that with him. As we continue our series going through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Rob preaches from Ephesians 1.7-10.

As he continues to unpack the longest sentence in the New Testament, he looks at the second blessing Paul identifies – that in the present, we have received redemption. But in order for us to have redemption now, it means that we must have once been in bondage to something, and couldn’t free ourselves. As we press into the meaning of redemption, we find that we have been liberated through the abundant showering of God’s grace, so that we can be united together to Jesus in his new Kingdom.