All Spiritual Blessings in Christ

"Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ,

who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings

in heavenly places in Christ." (Ephesians 1:3)

Our justification by Grace and acceptance with God is only to be found where it is treasured up: in Christ. You cannot find it in yourselves. It has pleased the Father that in the LORD Jesus Christ, all fullness should dwell for every poor, sensible soul who is brought by God the Spirit to confess his guilt and misery, feel his need and have earnest desires, hungering and thirsting after Christ's justifying righteousness. The LORD brings His people to know that in His solemn presence, they are all together as an unclean thing and that all their doings and righteousness are as filthy rags, Isa. 64:6. They find that when they would do good, evil is present with them and that the good they would they do not, while the evil they would not, that they do.

So that the poor soul who is brought more and more to feel his evils and to see that he has nothing in self to glory in but that he is as an unclean thing before the LORD, will be led by the Holy Spirit to discover that his justification and acceptance is treasured up in the Precious Christ then he will burst out in the language of the church of old, "Surely shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength..." (Isa. 45:24) and again: "In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory." (Isa. 45:25) Our justification, our acceptance and our glory before a Holy God is in the LORD Jesus Christ. Boasting is excluded on every side, Romans 3:26-27.