- Blessings begin with God, the Father.
- Spiritual blessings are delivered by the Holy Spirit.
- The reason we can receive the blessings is because Jesus died for our sins.
- Profession of faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord makes us saints.
- This faith in Jesus is exhibited in the way the saints live their lives and what they do to expand God’s kingdom.
- Jesus’ death and resurrection was the only way for us to gain salvation.
- Through Jesus’ blood, we have redemption of our sins.
- Because Jesus shed His blood, we have received a pardon for our sins.
- Forgiveness is when we give up the bitterness and resentment that we feel because we have been wronged.
- Sin is a conscious or unconscious act where we disobey God and break one of His laws and commandments.
- Jesus, our Redeemer, died on the cross so that all sins save one could be forgiven.
- The Plan of Salvation was God’s plan all along.
- Grace is a free and unmerited gift from Heavenly Father given through His Son, Jesus Christ that enables salvation and spiritual healing to believers.
- Grace doesn’t give us a license to sin.
- God uses the Holy Spirit to impart His wisdom.
- God will reveal Himself to us — giving us understanding for what we can read in the Bible and understanding for things God Himself will reveal to us.
- Knowledge comes before wisdom and holiness.
- Our growth particularly comes when He supplies wisdom through experiences.
- God uses the insights that He puts in our hearts through our observations so we can use that, rather than our own understanding, to determine what He is telling us.
- God calls all of mankind; however, not all of mankind accept God’s gift of salvation.
- All who are chosen because they have chosen to accept the gift of salvation receive the eternal blessings.
- Jesus’ glory is the expression of the qualities of God resulting from the authority of God.
- While Ephesians 2: 6 is not the first or only time in this letter that Paul referred to heavenly places, he uses this term only in this letter.
- God and Jesus (at God’s right hand) are going to rule from New Jerusalem.
- God has made Himself very accessible to us.
- Those reigning with Jesus for 1,000 years will be those who remained faithful unto death during persecution and those who did not worship the image erected (Rev. 13: 14) or take the mark (Rev. 13: 16).
- The great thing about New Jerusalem and whoever gets there first is that they will be living in fellowship with God the Father and God the Son.
- God is going to take His grace and kindness to the next level.
- Salvation means we are not only saved from our sins by redemption, but we are also delivered from spiritual death.
- If we admit our sins, believe Jesus is our Redeemer, and confess God as our Sovereign Lord, God will forgive us of our sins and grant us salvation.
- Grace is a free and unmerited gift from our Heavenly Father given through His Son Jesus Christ that enables salvation and spiritual healing to believers.
- Through God’s kindness, He shows mercy and compassion to us.
- The foundation of God’s actions is His unfailing love for us.
- We make the choice to believe what God says is true.
- Choosing faith is the first step; the second step is choosing His laws.
- As faith is a gift, it isn’t because of us, either.
- Works can’t fix us.
- Doing good works is not enough for salvation because it doesn’t make us holy.
- Faith isn’t just knowledge and acceptance of that knowledge.
- The evidence of saving faith is the existence of good works in the lives of Jesus’ disciples.
- We have to have the outward and inward profession of faith.
- If our faith has no roots, it hasn’t gotten down to our foundations, making it a cosmetic change, not a fundamental change.
- Jesus called His disciplines to be laborers.
- The first thing we need to do to remake ourselves by working out our salvation is to make a total commitment.
- The second thing is living as God would have us live.
- Finding God’s Will for our lives is the third thing.
- To accomplish His Plan, God has prepared works for us based on our talents and nature.