Dear BPCWAians, Thank God for seeing us through the book of Ephesians. I pray that BPCWA worshippers have truly come to a clear understanding of purpose of Epistle to the Ephesians – that we may know the great mystery revealed – Christ and His church (Eph 5:32)! Now that we know that the Church is an important and eternal purpose of God, what next? If God ensured that we understand His purpose by revealing this mystery to us, then we should ensure that we fulfil our responsibilities as His church and as worshippers in His church. We cannot be apathetic about this. Having understood God’s great and eternal purpose, such topics must excite and stir us to want to know

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Dear BPCWAians, In this final summary of the book of Ephesians, we must not miss the point of how the different aspects covered in this epistle come together to support the key theme of the book. We saw last week that the key theme of this book is the revelation of the mystery of the church. And the key purpose of the church, which God intended from the beginning of the creation of this world, is to make known to the world the glory of God (3:9-11). So how does this relate to the many exhortations of the Apostle for our personal walk, family life, life at work, and also fighting the spiritual warfare by donning on the full armour

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Dear BPCWAians, We have come to the end of our Sunday pulpit preaching on the Epistle to the Ephesians. Perhaps we may revisit it again one day, but it is important that we do not leave this epistle without a clear picture of it. If you were asked to summarize the theme of the epistle and its overview, what would you say? How do the individual topics covered by the Apostle Paul come together to meet an overall purpose? Like visiting a beautiful forest, we can get lost in the individual beauties of the trees but miss the overall beauty of the whole forest. Over all theme.This epistle is often known to be about the Church, which is the body

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Dear BPCWAians, We come to the final recapitulating of the camp thematic messages. If I were to ask you what have you learnt from the thematic messages, are you able to recall? In the breaking of bread – the sacraments. From the context of the verse, this breaking of bread refers to Holy Communion. But one cannot separate Holy Communion from the other sacrament, which is water baptism. Water Baptism is the pre-requisite for partaking of the Holy Communion. These two sacraments were instituted for the New Testament Church by our Lord Jesus Christ. Sacraments are holy signs and seals instituted for our spiritual good. The church must continue stedfastly in both the Word of God and the proper observation 

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