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Blessed Be God Elder George Walker (dec)

In 2nd. Corinthians, chapter 1, verse 3, the Apostle Paul says;

blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.

For many years now I have read and studied about how that God has blessed us with

all spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus. How that he has made us to sit together in heav-
enly places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. How that we have
been positioned in him and how that every blessing that we have, denotes the fact that
we are in a blessed condition, or position.

But our text says; blessed be God. This is not telling us that we have been placed in a
blessed state, but rather that because of the blessed state or condition that we have

been placed in; God is worthy of Praise, Honour, and Glory. It very well could have
read; Praise is to God, Glory is to God, or Honour is to God. Paul had just established
in verse 2, Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is saying; this grace is to you, this peace is to you and both of these come
from God. Not only does this Grace and Peace come from God, but that it comes from

God that is supreme deity, one that has all power, one that speaks and it comes to past.

This God that has all this power is our Father, but he is also the Father of our Lord and

Saviour Jesus Christ. I remember reading about Mary standing at the sepulchre of
Jesus weeping because she thought that someone had taken the body of her Lord. At
that time, she did not know that Christ had risen from the grave, but as she was weep-
ing Christ appeared unto her and said, why weepest thou? She turned to him and
called him Master. Jesus said to her, touch me not: for I am not yet ascended to my

Father: But go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your
Father; and to my God and to your God.

This God is not only our God; he is also the God of Jesus Christ. He is not only the
Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, but he is also our Father. So not only
does grace and peace come from God our Father, it also came from and through Jesus
Christ.

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