Ephesians 1:7-14

In the measure that you place your trust in Him is the measure that you can receive from Him.

The dear Holy Spirit will teach you all things pertaining to Christ and place you where you need to be in His Body. We were created to be doers and not just hearers of the Word of God. We who were once slaves to sin are made free and washed clean by the precious blood of the Lamb of God.

It is all about Jesus and the salvation that only He can provide!

The Greek word redemption used here, apolytrōsis, refers to the act of paying to free a slave. In Paul’s writings, the Greek word used here, mystērion, refers to God’s plan of salvation, which was formerly kept secret but is now revealed in Christ. This plan includes the unification of Jews and Gentiles into one new people of God. God’s work in Christ extends over all creation, including the heavens.

The gift of the Holy Spirit not only empowers believers to live holy lives, but also serves as a guarantee and reminder that God will one day fully complete His work in believers. Faithlife Bible.

In ancient times, one could buy back a person who was sold into slavery. In the same way, Christ through His death bought us from our slavery to sin. The blood of Christ is the means by which our redemption comes. The Old Testament  and the New both clearly teach that there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood. Blood here is a vivid symbolic equivalent of death. It recalls the sacrificial system of the old covenant, which looked forward to the self-sacrifice of Jesus Christ that took away the sin of the world.

The seal or mark of ownership in believers’ lives is the Holy Spirit.

Interestingly, the Greek word for guarantee can also be used to indicate an engagement ring. As Christ is the Bridegroom and the church is the bride, so the Holy Spirit is the down payment, the earnest money, in the long-awaited marriage of the two. NKJ Bible.

Ephesians 1:7–14 (NKJV)

⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace ⁸ which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, ⁹ having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, ¹⁰ that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. ¹¹ In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, ¹² that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

¹³ In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴ who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

John 1:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Romans 3:24 (NKJV)

²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,

Acts 20:28 (NKJV)

²⁸ Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

Romans 3:25 (NKJV)

²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,