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The Blessed Christ: A Meditation on Christmas and the Beatitudes

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Summary

The message surveys the Bible’s language of “blessed,” from the Beatitudes to the Psalms, and shows that blessedness did not begin with anything people accomplish. It arrives instead through Christus Victor, the Lord’s Servant who bore sin and triumphed, so that in the fullness of time God sent His Son, born of a woman, to redeem those under the law (Galatians 4:4-5).

Because of that redemption, believers already possess every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3), receiving grace upon grace from His fullness (John 1:16) and a settled inheritance in His kingdom. True blessedness, then, is not a mood or a moral achievement but a status secured entirely by what Christ has done, meant to be received with confidence rather than earned.

Essential truths

  1. Blessedness is rooted in what Christ accomplished as the victorious Redeemer, not in personal performance.
  2. In the fullness of time, God sent His Son to redeem those under the law and adopt them as children.
  3. Believers already possess every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
  4. All grace, from first to last, flows from Christ's fullness as grace upon grace.

Encouragement and challenge

Stop chasing blessedness through your own effort and rest instead in the spiritual blessings you already have in Christ.

Reference verses

  • Ephesians 1:3
  • Galatians 4:4-5
  • Romans 4:6-8
  • Isaiah 53:10-12
  • John 1:16

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