(This is an encore presentation of one of my earliest tips.)
- They can take the form of instructions, like in the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20 “Go… teach… baptize… teach.”
- They can be attributes, as in 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
- They can be an action plan. “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord and to do it and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Israel.” (Ezra 7:10)
- Every spiritual blessing (We could actually stop there. The rest of it explains some of what that entails.)
- Chosen in Him before the foundation of the world
- Holy & blameless before Him in love
- Adopted as His children
- Accepted by His grace, according to His will.