Sunday Worship Service | 16 March 2025 | 03:00 PM

SUNDAY BIBLE STUDY

Worship leader committed the service to the Almighty and led the congregation in heartfelt praise and worship.  Upa Zabiak dedicated the offerings to the Lord.

In a call to prayer, Pastor Suankhanhau read out 1 Samuel 15:1-9 and through the actions of Saul and the people in sparing King Agag and keeping everything that was good, brought home the truth that incomplete obedience is disobedience, a sin against God.  He said that God does not lower His standards like we do and called for introspection whether we have obeyed God fully. God would not find it difficult to deliver us from our predicament back home if we stand in complete obedience to Him. After leading the congregation in mass prayer, he extended a warm welcome to the visitors/first timers to the church.

Pastor then took up bible study on Ephesians 1: 15-23 (Lessons 5 & 6 of Hilhchianbu) regarding Paul’s thanksgiving and prayer for the church at Ephesus and the Supremacy of Christ. Paul gave thanks to the church at Ephesus for their faith and love for all God’s people. Here, the congregation was urged to reflect whether their love for their fellow believers is faithful and worthy of praise. In line with Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians for the spirit of wisdom and revelation to know God better, Pastor stressed the need for believers to desire and grow in the knowledge of God. Expounding on ‘enlightening of the eyes of our hearts’, the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people and His incomparably great power for those who believe, he reminded the congregation that the same power that raised Jesus from the death, the power and authority given to Jesus is also ours as believers in Christ.  God placed all things under the feet of Jesus and in Jesus, we are partakers. The church is the body of Christ and He is the head. Jesus is first and foremost and only in Him can we have all blessings and fulfillment.

The sermon concluded with Pastor making an impassioned plea for believers to love one another, grow in the knowledge and likeness of Christ, know the blessedness of the hope of our calling, seek His will, live according to the guidance and leading of God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit through diligent study of the Scriptures, prayer and total dedication to Him at all times.

Led by the worship team, the congregation sang the last hymn. The service then concluded with prayer and benediction by Upa Langkham.