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2008

God Blessed by Men?

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13 Jun 2008

As I am preparing my sermon on Ephesians 1:3 for this upcoming Lord’s Day I came across a superb quote by B.B. Warfield. In Ephesians 1:3 the apostle Paul writes: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.” Warfield notes, “Paul blesses God because God has so highly blessed man; only, God blesses with deeds while man can only bless with words.” I thought this was a particularly nice way of reading the passage. 

About Post Author

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

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