"Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself" (Eph. 1:9).

Grace and peace comes from knowing God as Father through His Son – the Lord Jesus Christ (Eph. 1:2).  Our Heavenly Father has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in Christ (Eph. 1:3).  This is why our Father chose us to be in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4).  Our Father's will is that we would choose to become His adopted sons by and through Jesus Christ, according to His good pleasure (Eph. 1:5).  Our Father worked His eternal plan to have us Spirit birthed into Christ, with Christ placed in us for life and expression (I Cor. 12:13; I Jn. 5:11-12; Gal. 2:20).  Our Father placed us in Christ for our eternal position and fellowship with Him.  Christ was placed in us for our temporal expression of His love-for-others Spirit and life.  We have fellowship with one another in the Body of Christ through the Christ-life in us (I Jn. 5:1).

Our Father has accepted us in His Beloved Son, through the glorious grace of His finished work on the cross (Eph. 1:6).  Our Father has granted redemption and forgiveness of sins through His shed blood and grace which He did through Jesus Christ, His Son (Acts 20:28; Eph. 1:6; II Cor. 5:19).  Our Father has made these things "abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence" (Eph. 1:8).  Our Father sent the Holy Spirit to make the mystery of His will known to us, according to His good pleasure (Eph. 1:9).  According to His good pleasure, our Father purposed to unfold His eternal plan in Himself to us (Eph. 3:9-10). Our Father has chosen in the fullness of all dispensations to gather in one all things in Christ (Eph. 1:10).