Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings? Ephesians chapter 1 verse 3. All the goodness of the past, the present and the future Christ bestows upon his people.

In the mysterious ages of the past the Lord Jesus was his father's first elect and in his election he gave us an interest for we were chosen in him from before the foundation of the world. He had from all eternity the prerogatives of sonship as his father's only begotten and well-beloved son. and he has in the riches of his grace by adoption and regeneration elevated us to sonship also so that to us he has given power to become the sons of God

the eternal covenant based upon surety ship and confirmed by oath is ours for our strong consolation and security in the everlasting settlements of predestinating wisdom and omnipotent decree the eye of the Lord Jesus was ever fixed on us And we may rest assured that in the whole role of destiny there is not a line which militates against the interests of his redeemed.

The great betrothal of the Prince of Glory is ours, for it is to us that he is affianced, as the sacred nuptials shall e'er long declare, to an assembled universe. The marvelous incarnation of the God of heaven with all the amazing condescension and humiliation which attended it is ours.

The bloody sweat, the scourge, the cross are ours forever. whatever blissful consequences flow from perfect obedience finished atonement resurrection ascension or intercession all are ours by his own gift upon his breastplate he is now bearing our names and in his authoritative pleading at the throne he remembers our persons and pleads our cause

his dominion over principalities and powers and his absolute majesty in heaven he employs for the benefit of them who trust in him his highest state is as much at our service as was his condition of abasement He who gave himself for us in the depths of woe and death doth not withdraw the grant now that he is enthroned in the highest heavens.