What do we have in connection with the "mystery" concerning Christ and the Church?
•We have every blessing in the heavenlies.
•We shall reign over all things with Christ in the eternal state.
•We shall enjoy with Him the entire inheritance of all created things.
•We have all spiritual blessings from the Father-to be included in the heavenly family in the Father's own house forever.
•We have been chosen in Christ before the world was founded, to be holy and without blame (as Christ is) before the Father in love.
•We have been predestinated to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of the Father's will. (Predestined means to be singled out before the foundation of the world, to have a place with Christ in heaven in a coming day.)
•We have been accepted with the same acceptance that Christ, as man, has, for we are in the Beloved-in Christ.
•We have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of our sins through the riches of His grace.
•We have been given wisdom and intelligence, in that He has made known to us the "mystery" of His will-that in the fullness of times He will gather together in one all things in Christ in heaven and on earth. Then, with sin gone, all will be holy forever.
•We have obtained our inheritance.
•We shall be to the praise of His glory.
•We have been sealed (a sign of possession) with that Holy Spirit of promise, the earnest of our inheritance until we have been taken to heaven-His purchased possession.