Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,-Ephesians 1:3
We have been blessed by God the father in Christ. He is talking to saints as we saw earlier in verse 1. Paul even specified by saying that they are ones who are "faithful in Christ Jesus". These are ones who have been blessed by God the father in Christ. What have we been blessed with? We have been blessed "with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places". To be clear, this doesn't mean that everyone is guaranteed financial gain and/or health and/or good relationships. Some may interpret it differently, but I think Paul goes on in the next few verses to talk about what these spiritual blessings are and I don't think it's financial blessings or other kinds of things that you may think. In addition, Paul uses the word "has" to mean that this has already taken place. These believers have already been blessed by this blessing that Paul is talking about. Not all of them are financially rich or physically healthy at the moment, so it can't be referring to that, otherwise they would have already received it. What's really interesting is what NLT adds to the end, "because we are united with Christ". They seem to interpret this to mean that the unity with Christ is the reason why we are receiving every spiritual blessing. In any case, we should be reminded that we have already received every spiritual blessing, which we'll be learning more about in the next few verses.
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