Series: The Book of Ephesians-- Sermon Questions -- 10/4/2015“Real Blessings” (Part I)1.In your opinion, what is a blessing?2.How do you know if something is a blessing from God? How do you know it is not from Satan?3.What is the difference between a trial and temptation?4.Read Eph. 1:3-14. What strikes you about the blessings God gives to believers? What kind of blessings are they? What blessings seem to be missing?5.When the average Christian or preacher/teacher talks about blessings, what are they generally talking about?6.Read Deut. 28:1-8 and 28:15-26. Who are these blessings and curses for? How are these blessings generally taught by preachers and teachers today? Do they ever preach/teach on the curses?7.Read Eph. 1:4. What is the blessing here? What makes this blessing so powerful?8.Read Eph. 1:5-6. What is the blessing here for the believer (i.e. talk about “adoption” and what it meant in the Roman culture)?9.If someone asks you, “Who are you?”, how have you answered that question?10. Read Eph. 1:4. What does it mean to be “holy and blameless”? What is God asking of the believer? You? (See 1 Peter 2:9)