1. Eph 1:3-14 (A Thanksgiving message)
Because of Calvary
Eph 1:3-14
(A Thanksgiving message)

2. Because of Calvary we have...

3. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive

4. Rom 8:35, 38-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

5. Rom 8:35, 38-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? … For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation

7. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
We were chosen before the foundation of the world (v4)

8. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
We were chosen before the foundation of the world (v4)
We’ve been redeemed by his blood (v7)

9. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
We were chosen before the foundation of the world (v4)
We’ve been redeemed by his blood (v7)
We’ve been forgiven by His grace (v7)

10. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
The promise of His blessings

11. Romans 8:32
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?

12. 1st Corinthians 1:7-8
So that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

13. 2nd Peter 1:3-4
His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

14. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
The promise of His blessings
The expectation of His inheritance

15. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
The promise of His blessings
The expectation of His inheritance
We will share in His reward

16. Because of Calvary we have...
The assurance of God’s motive
The provision of His salvation
The promise of His blessings
The expectation of His inheritance
We will share in His reward
We have His Spirit now as a guarantee

17. John 7:37-39
On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, 'Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'" Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

18. Because of Calvary we should...

19. Because of Calvary we should...
Believe and receive

20. Because of Calvary we should...
Believe and receive
Give thanks and praise Him!

21. Because of Calvary we should...
Believe and receive
Give thanks and praise Him!
V3 “Blessed be…”
V6 “To the praise of his glorious grace”
V12 “To the praise of his glory”
V15 “To the praise of his glory”