I Am (Blessed with Heavens Best)

Blessed with Heavens Best Overview

In this opening message of a new teaching series, the pastor introduces the theme of being blessed with Heaven’s best — not through striving or religious effort, but through receiving and growing in the love of God. Drawing from 1 John 4:5-19, Ephesians 1:3-21, and Colossians 3:1, the message establishes that every spiritual blessing in heavenly places belongs to the believer who simply confesses that Jesus is the Son of God. The pastor challenges the congregation to set their affections on things above, explaining that the more one grows in the love of God, the more beautiful and purposeful life becomes. Key themes include the danger of heresy as drawing away from God, the fourfold dimension of God’s love, the meaning of being accepted in the Beloved, and the truth that as Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father, so are believers in this world. Through personal illustrations — including a powerful story of leading a roomful of bikers to Christ and a tribute to a beloved minister of love — the sermon calls every listener to stop searching for lesser solutions and simply say yes to the love of God.

Blessed with Heavens Best Outline

• 0:00 – Launching the New Series: The pastor introduces the new teaching series on being blessed with Heaven’s best, explaining how every series demonstrates the Bible’s singular theme: the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• 5:30 – The Bible’s One Theme and Heresy Defined: An exploration of how Jesus is the center of all Scripture, and a clarifying definition of heresy as drawing away from God rather than pressing toward Him.
• 13:00 – The Environment of Love: Using Colossians 3:1 and the new birth experience, the pastor explains how growing in God’s love makes everything in life more beautiful and fruitful.
• 21:00 – 1 John 4:5-19 — Abiding in Love: Verse-by-verse teaching on how confessing Jesus as Son of God places believers in an eternal environment of love, and why perfect love casts out all fear.
• 31:00 – Ephesians 1:3-6 — Blessed with Every Spiritual Blessing: The pastor unpacks how believers are chosen before the foundation of the world, predestined as sons, and made highly favored — accepted in the Beloved.
• 40:00 – Ephesians 1:15-21 — The Exceeding Greatness of His Power: Paul’s prayer for wisdom and revelation is examined, showing that the same resurrection power that raised Christ now works in every believer.
• 49:00 – The Biker House — A Story of Love in Action: A vivid personal testimony of walking into a rough gathering and watching the light of God scatter darkness, resulting in an entire room surrendering to Jesus.
• 56:00 – As He Is, So Are We — Living the Truth: The pastor draws together all threads: believers are more than conquerors, principalities hold no power, and the only barrier to blessing is failing to receive God’s love.
• 1:02:00 – Tribute to a Minister of Love and Final Exhortation: A moving tribute to a longtime friend in ministry who preached nothing but love for 92 years, followed by a final call to embrace God’s love and reflect it to the world.

Scripture References

1 John 4:5-16, 1 John 4:17-19, Colossians 3:1, Ephesians 1:3-6, Ephesians 1:15-21, John 17, Romans 8:37, Philippians 1:23-24

Key Takeaways

• God has already blessed every believer with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ, and nothing needs to be earned or begged for.
• Heresy, rightly understood, means drawing away from God — and any teaching that causes people to back away from His love, His healing, or His provision is the true heresy.
• The more a believer grows in the love of God, the more beautiful people, life, and creation become, because God’s beauty does not diminish anything — it magnifies everything.
• Perfect love casts out all fear, and fear is simply evidence of immaturity in the love of God, not a permanent condition for the child of God.
• As Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father in heavenly places, so are believers in this world right now — fully accepted, fully favored, and fully empowered.
• God created humanity because love requires an object to be known and expressed, meaning every believer carries the unique calling to make God’s love visible in the earth.
• Receiving God’s love is not passive resignation but active faith — saying yes to His love daily is the most powerful thing a believer can do for their health, family, finances, and purpose.

Blessed with Heavens Best Notes

Heaven’s Best Is Already Yours

The central thesis of this message is radical in its simplicity: every spiritual blessing in heavenly places is already the possession of every person who confesses that Jesus is the Son of God. The pastor draws on Ephesians 1:3 to establish that this is not a future promise contingent on performance but a present reality rooted in grace. Believers do not need to fast, strive, or find a more anointed intermediary. The inheritance is already theirs, and the great need is not more effort but more revelation of the love that guarantees it.

Why Growing in Love Changes Everything

One of the sermon’s most striking observations is that spiritual maturity does not make the world seem smaller or duller — it makes everything more vivid. The pastor recalls how at the new birth, colors seemed brighter and creation more alive. This is not nostalgia; it is the natural result of God’s beauty entering a human life. As believers continue to grow in the knowledge of God’s love, described in Ephesians 3 as having length, breadth, height, and depth, they find themselves seeing the good in people, appreciating overlooked blessings, and losing appetite for lesser things.

A Roomful of Bikers and the Power of Love

Among the sermon’s most memorable moments is the account of a young, newly saved believer walking into a rough gathering at the invitation of a stranger’s mother. Where others warned of spiritual danger, the pastor saw an opportunity. After praying over a young woman in her language of tongues — which a Finnish-speaking man in the room recognized and translated — the entire room of roughly thirty people gave their lives to Jesus. The story illustrates powerfully that Satan is not a formidable barrier to someone who walks in the love of God; darkness cannot withstand the light.

Predestination Means Love, Not Exclusion

The pastor addresses the often-misunderstood doctrine of predestination directly, drawing from Ephesians 1:5. Predestination does not mean that some are chosen for salvation and others for condemnation. It means that God purposed before the foundation of the world that all who would say yes to Jesus would be adopted as sons, made holy, and brought without blame before Him in love. The only variable is human choice. This reframing strips predestination of its fatalism and restores it as the most generous declaration of divine intent ever spoken.

Accepted in the Beloved — Highly Favored

The Greek phrase translated ‘accepted in the Beloved’ in Ephesians 1:6 appears only one other time in Scripture — when the angel greeted Mary as ‘highly favored of God.’ The pastor draws this parallel to show that every believer shares the same standing before the Father that Mary had at the announcement of the incarnation. All of God’s favor, all of His attention, all of His desire to bless, heal, promote, and prosper flows toward the believer not because of their merit but because they are in Christ, the Beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased.

Living Like Who You Actually Are

The closing exhortation of the message is both theological and deeply practical: because as Jesus is, so are we in this world, believers must stop living below their identity. Whether facing sickness, financial pressure, relational breakdown, or spiritual opposition, the answer is not to search for a more powerful prayer partner or a more anointed evangelist. The answer is to receive the love of God more fully. When love is the environment, fear has no foothold, principalities hold no power, and the resurrection life of Christ flows freely through every area of the believer’s existence.

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