Every Spiritual Blessing: Part 1-3

Delight in grace the teaching ministry of Rich Powell Pastor Grace Bible Church in Winston-Salem. Here's the third and final part of Pastor Rich's sermon titled every spiritual blessing.

There is 1/3 inference in this. Not only is there preference and inference of preference and not only is there an inference of purpose.

But there's also an inference of protection protection because why because you are his.

He looks at you and he says you are my minutes trying to look at my children in a picture I care for them and I want to be there protecting loving giving father and that's how God looks at us and the protection here is just with the understanding that it is done what he has for us is done. Our destiny is determined it is done is not left up to how hard we try, or how good we are from God's infinite transcendent perspective. Our journey is complete.

Remember, God knows everything right here, right now he doesn't look down the road of time.

God doesn't do that he can't knows everything and therefore in his knowledge from his perspective.

Your entire journey of life is done and how does he see you well this is what he starts describing because the apostle Paul says I can. Romans eight for example, who shall bring a charge against God's elect is God who justifies. We've unpacked that will be just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, to what end chose us for what remember the inferences preference and purpose, and protection. But just as he chose us to be holy and blameless before him just as he chose us in him to be holy and blameless. This is a perfect reflection of his character. We are as Paul says in Romans eight predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ to reflect his perfect life, but it's very interesting to words.

It could very easily be passed over in here that we should be holy and blameless before him.

As such a profound word. The word there is cotton opium on three parts to that word to see down in from his incident perspective.

He looks down into the core of your being and mine. And what does he see that we should be holy and without blame before him cotton opium has a season down in so think about this. Think about this York infinite loving heavenly father Christians I'm talking to you.

He looks down into you and he looks he's not looking for the hypocrisy is not looking for the superficiality is not looking for the faults but his piercing gaze looks down into you and he is looking for that delight in that satisfaction that he sees in the perfection of his cells, but this is how God sees you. You need to know your father this way he has predestined us to adoption as sons in the adoption there to adoption as sons in the Roman world and adopted son had the same rights and privileges as natural son, yet natural sons when biological birth and then you had adopted sons who is God's natural son, not by biological birth but they of the same essence and that is Jesus Christ. He is very God of very God is the second person of the Trinity.

He is his only begotten son. He is the natural son of God, you and I are adopted sons of God. But as we are adopted as sons we have the same rights and privileges as the natural sons is not awesome, we are adopted into that son ship John says as many is believed he gave the right authority to become children of God, and we read it earlier during the early part of the worship behold what manner of the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God.

This is family this relationship. Imagine the love that God has lavished on us that he and infinitely perfectly holy God can reach down to me and call me his child whom he cares for deeply and affectionately and has desire for what is in a family relationship when a father thinks of this child is the name you you share a name. There is a sense of care.

There's a sense of protection, a sense of guidance favor. Love, belonging all of that and this is how God looks at us because he says here according to the good pleasure of was will to the praise of his glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in the beloved accepted in the beloved.

Who is that he speaking of Christ, we are in Christ, he is our element. He is our identity day as the blessing that God has favored on us with the son of his love in Christ, we are loved and lavished with goodness. And so, just as God takes pleasure in his son Jesus in the same way he takes pleasure in us Christians.

Let me ask you again. Do you know him that way, your heavenly father just as he takes pleasure in his son Jesus. So he takes pleasure in us.

I invite you to know him.

That way, father delights and you just as he delights in Christ. Why is this. There's two statements that he gives here. Why is all of this as he is gushing all of this truth out about God and his disposition toward us in our status in him.

According to verse five according to the good pleasure of his will. The good pleasure of his will. This is his desire. This is what brings him pleasure. This is the outflow of his goodness understand this, God is good. He doesn't just do good.

He is good in his very being.

He is the definition of good and so it follows that he should act in this fashion, because he is good and then it says to the praise of the glory of his grace on the impact that for just a minute. Praise praise is translated approval, it is sometimes translated up lots on one occasion for what reasons do we applaud we clap our hands. We clap our hands when something meaningful has been done. We clap our hands when we see genuine beauty. We clap our hands when we receive pleasure from something we clap our hands when we recognize a profound accomplishment has been we clap our hands when we recognize goodness. All of those things. So all of these are who God is and what he has lavished on us, meaning beauty, pleasure, accomplishment, goodness, all of that praise and it deserves our praise and he deserves absolute praise from us to the praise of the glory in this word glory Dokes means splendor, something that is profoundly beautiful thing upon which we can gaze that just leaves us in all, to the praise of the glorious splendor of his grace and what is grace.

It is his goodness. His acts of favor and kindness all the good that God has lavished on us, and so let me paraphrase what the apostle is saying here that we are to make much of the lavished splendor of his goodness that he is poured out on us when it's all said and done when time is done and you and I are forever with the Lord. Here's what happens. The great I am, takes center stage and believe me there will be pro-fusion of gushing extravagance. There will be a cosmic adoration that will make the Super Bowl sound like a walk in the library because God is so deserving as we conclude our time together today.

I want you to consider this. All this that the apostle is pouring out here in what circumstance did he write this, he was in prison and Roman prisons were nothing special.

There was nothing delightful about them. What does this tell us what you listen to this place. This application, as we glean from the example of the apostle Paul.

First of all I want you to know God the way he did. I want you to know God for who he is.

Secondly, you can't control most of what happens to you, you know that right all of you control freaks. You can't control most of what happens to you, but what can you control you can control how you think about it and how you engage it remember all of this profusion that is gushing out of the apostle Paul to describe God in his lavished goodness. His disposition toward us in our status in him. He's writing this change in a Roman prison that was beyond his control, but what he could control is how he thought about it and how he engaged it. Loved ones.

Let's learn from that. Let's learn from that and then I want you to consider God's disposition towards you. You those of us who are in Christ. When God looks at you.

He gets pleasure he sees all people of all time in one shot and when he looks upon you. He looks at you and me with delight and deep affection and care. I want you to know him.

That way because that's who you are in Christ. Father, we are so blessed to have a word from you that you have indeed made yourself known to us so that we can know you father rescue us from knowing you inaccurately or inadequately rescue us father from simply imagining you according to our imagination but father, thank you that you have manifested yourself to us.

In truth, and may we know you that way. Father Lord I pray that you would take these truths and plant them deep in us in shape and fashion us in the likeness of your son, the Lord Jesus because father we in Christ are the objects of your desire and you are pleasure and you are delight. Thank you for that. In Jesus name, amen. Been listening to the lighting grace teaching ministry of Rich Powell, the pastor of Grace Bible Church in Winston-Salem visit our church website to see upcoming events to listen to my messages@gbcwinston.com to discover how to live by grace to you in with us on weekdays at 10 AM