{"id":2786,"date":"2014-03-08T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2014-03-08T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T12:22:12","slug":"all-spiritual-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"All Spiritual Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All Spiritual Blessings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus    Christ, who hath blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in heavenly  places   IN CHRIST.\u201d Eph. 1:3<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Spirit uses this phrase over and over again \u2013 IN CHRIST. The  whole   of the word of God is to reveal to us the Lord Jesus and his  accomplished   salvation. The whole of God\u2019s word is to teach us what we  have IN CHRIST.<\/p>\n<p>When Our Lord Jesus Christ said, \u201cCome unto me, and you shall find  rest   for your souls\u201d He is telling us there is no other place, other  than in   Him, to find rest for our soul \u2013 rest from the guilt and power  of sin.<\/p>\n<p>When Christ said, \u201cCome unto me\u201d, He didn\u2019t say come to a    particular position on doctrine, come to election, or come to imputed    righteousness. He didn\u2019t say come to total depravity, or to God\u2019s    Sovereignty. He told sinners to COME UNTO ME! Why? Because when a sinner    comes to Christ they receive all that he did in his work, all that he  is in   His person. We were chosen in HIM, and accepted in HIM.  Redemption is through   HIS blood, we obtained an inheritance in HIM,  and we were quickened together   with HIM, raised up to sit together in  heavenly places in HIM. The long and   the short of it beloved is that  if we have Christ we have ALL WE NEED, and we   have it where it counts,  before God Almighty who demands perfection. Blessed   be his name for  he has provided us perfection IN CHRIST. \u201cAnd ye are   COMPLETE IN HIM,  which is the head of all principality and power\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We need righteousness \u2013 Christ is our righteousness. We need wisdom \u2013  Christ   is our wisdom. We need sanctification \u2013 Christ is our  sanctification. We need   redemption and Christ is our redemption. God  made Him so unto us (1Cor.   1:30).<\/p>\n<p>Christ said: COME UNTO ME, in coming to Him you will have all that is  IN HIM   and you will spend the rest of your life learning about all  you have IN HIM!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Don Bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Spiritual Blessings \u201cBlessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN CHRIST.\u201d Eph. 1:3 The Holy Spirit uses this phrase over and over again \u2013 IN CHRIST. The whole of the word of God is to reveal to us the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,72,68,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-don-bell","category-christ-and-his-church","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-gospel-preaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}