Every Spiritual Blessing (2)
The Lord's Day Morning July 10, 2005 Ephesians 1:3-4 “Every Spiritual Blessing (2): The Blessing of Divine Election” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one. Last week we began our study of this glorious prayer in Ephesians 1, beginning in verse 3 and running all the way to verse 14. And as we did, we observed that the whole of Ephesians, chapter one, is a prayer. Ephesians 1:3-14 is a prayer of praise; Ephesians 1:15-23 is a prayer of intercession; Ephesians 1:3-14 gives adoration to God for who He is and what He has done. Ephesians 1:15-23 brings a request to the Lord that He would open our eyes to see the fullness of the blessings that He has given to us in satisfying and supplying all our needs, and so the…