The Gifts Of God

Ephesians 1:7-8  

"In whom we have redemption through his blood, 

the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; 

Wherein he hath abounded toward us 

in all wisdom and prudence;" 

    In our verses we study today we come across three of the great conceptions of the Christian faith.    The first is deliverance:.  In every case the conception is the delivering of a man from a situation from which he was powerless to liberate himself or from a penalty which he himself could never have paid, for his own redemption.  
   God delivered men from a situation from which they could never have delivered themselves. That is precisely what Christianity did do for us. When Christianity came into this world we were haunted by the sense of our own powerlessness. We knew the wrongness of the life we were living; and we also know that we were powerless to do anything about it.

   Then we have forgiveness: Even the rich and the strongest people in the world knows that they are in the grip of something they are helpless to deliver themselves from, and they need liberation. It is  that liberation which Jesus Christ brought. It is still true that he can liberate men from slavery of Sin, to the things that attract and disgust them at one and the same time. To put it at its simplest, Jesus can still make bad men good. 
    If there was one thing which men knew it was the sense of sin and the dread of God. Jesus changed all that. He taught men about the love of God. Because Jesus came into the world, men, even in their sin, discovered God's love.  My Friends, as the Scriptures tell us there is wisdom and prudence (sound sense), and Christ brought both of them to us, therefore let us stand on our Christian faith with God's gifts in hand.
Amen!
Reading: Eph. 1:7-8
Ref: HG SB

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry