22nd March 2020 Sunday service - Ephesians

Here is our first Sunday service video not that as we are currently unable to meet for public worship. We are continuing on in our series in Ephesians looking at chapter 1 verses 15 to 23.

For the songs - pause the video of the service, copy and paste the link for the song into a new browser window, play the song and sing along then return the video of the service and press play to resume the service.

Here is the order of service;
Approaching God
Call to worship
Praise – Psalm 100 (   • All People That on Earth Do Dwell (Gr...  )
Prayer of adoration and confession
Assurance of pardon

Hearing from God
Lectionary Scripture reading – Genesis 2:15-25
Children’s question and answer
Praise – Speak, O Lord (   • Speak, O Lord - Keith and Kristyn Getty  )
Scripture reading – Ephesians 1:15-23
Sermon (see sermon notes below)

Responding to God
Prayers of thanksgiving, dedication and intercession
Praise – To God be the glory (   • To God be the glory  )
Benediction

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Ephesians 1:15-23 – Sermon notes
What are we praying for in current circumstances?
Protection? Health? A cure?
Paul is in prison (or under house arrest) and he tells the Ephesians what he has been praying for them.

He has heard about their faith and their love and continually gives thanks for them as he prays.

He has 2 prayer reports for them.
1) He has been “asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”
The Holy Spirit is given to us so that we may know God better.

2) He asks that “the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”
3 things for us to know…
The hope to which we have been called
o A sure and certain hope
The riches of God’s glorious inheritance in the saints
o Verse 5 and verse 11, “every spiritual blessing” in the heavenly realms in Christ
God’s incomparably great power for us who believe
o WSC 4 - ‘God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.’
o Seen in Christ’s resurrection and exaltation
o The head of our church is the victor and supreme over all things