Worship: January 31st, 2021

On Sunday, January 31st, Pastor Tony continued his sermon series in Ephesians: Grace to You. He reminded us that the relationship between Christ and His Church is gloriously mysterious. 

8:30 am Early Worship Service
10:00 am Sunday School 

11:00 am Late Worship Service
6:00 pm Evening Prayer & Study 

 

Preaching: Rev. Tony Felich (Sermon Audio Page| Other Sermons) 

Text: Ephesians 5:22-32

[22] Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. [24] Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

[25] Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, [26] that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, [27] so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. [28] In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. [29] For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, [30] because we are members of his body. [31] “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” [32] This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.

Worship Hymns:
Hymn of Adoration: # 53 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Hymn or Spiritual Songs: # 461 Not What My Hands Have Done
Hymn of Response: # 347 The Church’s One Foundation
Dismissal Hymn: # 299 Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious

Additional Readings: The Westminster Confession of Faith Chapter XXV, Of the Church, Section 1-3 

I. The catholic or universal Church which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.

II. The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel (not confined to one nation as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion; and of their children: and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.

III. Unto this catholic visible Church Christ hath given the ministry, oracles, and ordinances of God, for the gathering and perfecting of the saints, in this life, to the end of the world: and doth by His own presence and Spirit, according to His promise, make them effectual thereunto.

Full Liturgy for January 31th, 2021 (PDF)

Sermons from the Exposition of Ephesians
(click on the link for the sermon page with audio) 

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