Homerton Baptist Church
Evening Service (260607)

      • Ephesians 1:5–6ESV

  • Hymn 263 - When all your mercies, O my God

      • Romans 8:1–17ESV

  • Hymn 713 - A mind at perfect peace with God

      • Matthew 5:5–15ESV

      • Amos 6:1–14ESV

      • Ephesians 1:5–6ESV

  • Romans 8:1–17 ESV
    1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
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    Ephesians 1:5–6 ESV
    5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
    Introduction
    As we continue to study these these glorious truths presented to us in Ephesians 1 we come to the second, Adoption. As believers we are adopted into the “family” of God and he truly becomes our Father.
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    1. Adopted v5

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    Ephesians 1:5 ESV
    5 In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
    "in Love" should be with first 5 not 4
    The modern chapter divisions of the Bible emerged in the thirteenth century through work at the University of Paris aimed at creating a standardized biblical text. More specifically, Stephen Langton, an Archbishop of Canterbury, developed the chapter divisions around 1272, and these divisions were subsequently applied to Hebrew manuscripts in the fourteenth century.
    Sons 
    In Ephesians 1:5, “sons” refers to believers who have been adopted into God’s family through Christ. The term is inclusive and does not exclude females—it encompasses all believers
    It’s important to note that this adoption represents a future occurrence, particularly at the resurrection when believers receive glorified bodies,3 though believers become children of God at the moment of spiritual regeneration.3 The full realization of sonship awaits completion.
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    a. Set Apart by God

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    Ephesians 1:5 ESV
    5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
    In his boundless love, motivated by nothing outside of himself, he set them apart to be his own sons. Hendriksen, W
    It is rather useless to look for human analogies, for the adoption of which Paul speaks surpasses anything that takes place on earth. It bestows upon its recipients not only a new name, a new legal standing, and a new family-relationship, but also a new image, the image of Christ. Hendriksen
    Romans 8:29 ESV
    29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
    Galatians 4:4–6 ESV
    4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
    Romans 8:15–16 ESV
    15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
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    b. Through Jesus Christ

    Ephesians 1:5 ESV
    5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
    This adoption is through Jesus Christ for himself. It is through the work of Christ that this adoption becomes a reality. By his atonement the new standing and also the transformation into the spirit of sonship were merited for the chosen ones. Thus, they become God’s children who glorify him. Hendriksen, W
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    c. According to God’s Purpose

    Ephesians 1:5 ESV
    5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
    purpose :-
    good pleasure, a delightful, fixed intention of benevolent favour
    The modifier according to the good pleasure of his will not only fits the immediate context (“for himself”), but also harmonizes excellently with the words “having in love foreordained us.” When the Father chose a people for himself, deciding to adopt them as his own children, he was motivated by love alone. Hence, what he did was a result not of sheer determination but of supreme delight. Hendriksen, W
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    2. Praise God v6

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    Ephesians 1:6 ESV
    6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
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    a. Glorious Grace

    Ephesians 1:6 ESV
    6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
    This election, which was further described as a foreordination to adoption as sons, is to the praise of the glory of his [the Father’s] grace. That is its ultimate purpose. The immediate (or intermediate) design has already been designated, namely, “that we should be holy and faultless before him,” and along the same line, that we should receive “adoption as sons.” The final goal, to which everything else is contributory, is the adoring recognition (“praise”) of the manifested excellence (“glory”) of the favor to the undeserving (“grace”) of him who was called “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”  Hendriksen, W
    It is clear that it is especially that marvelous grace to which the emphasis now shifts. It was the rapturous contemplation of that freely bestowed love to those viewed as lost in sin and ruin which moved the soul of the apostle to cry out, “Blessed (be) the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Hendriksen, W
    Ephesians 2:4–7 (ESV) — 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
    Ephesians 5:25–27 (ESV) — 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
    Ephesians 2:8–9 (ESV) — 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
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    b. Blessed in the Beloved

    Ephesians 1:6 ESV
    6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
    Ephesians 1:12 ESV
    12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
    Ephesians 1:13 ESV
    13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
    Song of Solomon 5:5–6 ESV
    5 I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt. 6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
    Song of Solomon 5:8–9 ESV
    8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love. 9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
    Song of Solomon 5:10 ESV
    10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
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    The Son, knowing what is pleasing to the Father and in harmony with his will, does not wait until the Father orders him to do this or that, but willingly offers himself. He volunteers to do the Father’s will. He is not passive even in his death, but lays down his life. “For this reason the Father loves me because I lay down my life in order that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from me; on the contrary, I lay it down of my own accord” (John 10:17, 18; cf. Is. 53:10). It is this marvelous delight, on the part of the Son, in doing the Father’s will and thereby saving his people even at the cost of his own death, yes, death by means of a cross (Phil. 2:8), that causes the Father, again and again, to exclaim, “This is my beloved Son.”  Hendriksen, W
    Isaiah 53:10 ESV
    10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
    Conclusion
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    Since Christ by means of his death earned every spiritual blessing for us, and therefore wants us to have these goods, and since the Father loves the Son, it stands to reason that, for the sake of this Beloved One, the Father would gladly grant us whatever we need. To this must be added the fact that the Father himself gave his Son for this very purpose. Hendriksen, W.
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    Romans 8:32 ESV
    32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

      • Ephesians 1:5–6ESV

      • Ephesians 1:5ESV

      • Ephesians 1:5ESV

      • Ephesians 1:6ESV

      • Romans 8:32ESV

  • Hymn 715 - Loved with everlasting love
  • Hymn 723 - All I once held dear, build my life upon
  • Doxology 1145 Chorus

      • Romans 1:7ESV

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