"Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings" (Ephesians 1: 3).
All the goodness of the past, the present, and the future, Christ bestows on His people. In the mysterious ages of the past, the Lord Jesus was His Father's first elect. He had from all eternity the prerogatives of Sonship. By adoption and regeneration, He has elevated us to Sonship also. The eternal covenant, based on suretyship and confirmed by oath, is ours. In the everlasting settlements of predestinating wisdom and omnipotent decree, the eye of the Lord Jesus was ever fixed on us. The marvelous incarnation of the God of heaven, with all the amazing condescension and humiliation which attended it, is ours. The bloody sweat, the scourge, and the cross are ours forever. Whatever blissful consequences flow from perfect obedience, finished atonement, resurrection, ascension, or intercession, are all ours by His own gift. Upon His breastplate He is now bearing our names. He employs His dominion over principalities and powers for those who trust in Him. His high estate is as much at our service as was His condition of abasement. He who gave Himself for us in the depths of woe and death, does not withdraw the grant now that He is enthroned in the highest heavens.