It was great to be together yesterday morning to join our voices to praise and magnify our great God and rejoice in the glorious, transforming truth of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday’s sermon from Ephesians 1:1-2:10, entitled: “Let’s Recap Ephesians!” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

The “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon is available here.

And don’t forget, because we’re back into our Ephesians series, there’s a weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’ Word.  This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song – “The Exceeding Greatness of His Power” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

And finally… For all those who like to have the quotes from yesterday’s sermon, here they are:

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones:
“Paul’s great concern here is to give the Ephesians, and others to whom the letter is addressed, a panoramic view of this wondrous and glorious work of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Puritan Thomas Brooks (Heaven on Earth):
“I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest; I am His by donation and I am His by election; I am His by covenant and I am His by marriage; I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His; I am universally His; I am eternally His. Once I was a slave but now I am a son; once I was dead but now I am alive; once I was darkness but now I am light in the Lord; once I was a child of wrath, an heir of hell, but now I am an heir of heaven; once I was Satan’s bond-servant but now I am God’s freeman; once I was under the spirit of bondage but now I am under the Spirit of adoption that seals up to me the remission of my sins, the justification of my person and the salvation of my soul.”

John Calvin:
“In Christ every part of our salvation is complete. As all mankind are, in the sight of God, lost sinners, we hold that Christ is their only righteousness, since, by His obedience he has wiped off our transgressions, by his sacrifice appeased the divine anger, by his blood washed away our sins, by his cross borne our curse, and by his death made satisfaction for us. We maintain that in this way man is reconciled in Christ to God the Father, by no merit of his own, by no value of works, but by gratuitous mercy.”

O the riches in the Gospel! (By Kevin Hartnett)

O the riches in the Gospel!
Purposes no man conceived!
Grace unfailing; love astounding,
Given those who have believed!

Pardon full for helpless sinners.
Justified- though guilty be!
Jesus cursed for our transgressions;
We made righteous by decree!

Peace with God, oh timeless marvel!
Christ’s blood our security!
Holiness at one with Favor;
Heaven opened wondrously!

Purpose in the Master’s kingdom;
We, His worksmanship by grace,
Cleansed to serve; alive in conscience;
Spirit-filled to run the race.

Pleasure in His highest priv’ledge:
Sons of God by name are we!
Heirs with Christ through God’s adoption;
Called in love eternally!

O the riches in the Gospel!
Purposes no man conceived!
Grace unfailing; love astounding,
Ever theirs who have believed!