This verse begins in a way that some may consider odd. The KJV says, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” In Modern English it says, “Sacred, holy, and sanctified is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
That is simply declaring the obvious!
Verse 3 tells us that Jesus Christ is our lord (Gr. kurios). That indicates that He is our owner and proprietor. Jesus bought us at Calvary. He paid the full and complete redemption price for our salvation.
This verse also tells us that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
That may also seem odd until you realize that we have been baptized into Christ Jesus, and as a result our citizenship is now in heaven where Jesus is!
If we have been baptized into Christ Jesus we are where he is! That shall become apparent within a few verses.
Some may assume that being baptized into the “body” of Christ is similar to being voted into the legislative “body” of Congress.
However…when Paul describes what all that means he uses actual body parts in his description.
1 Cor 12:12-26
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14 the body is not one member, but many.
15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
We are blessed!
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