Throughout the month of October, we have been looking at the five essential truths—extracted from the Word of God—that served as the foundation for that historical event launched in the sixteenth century known simply as ‘The Reformation.’ And as we have discovered, the Reformers and their immediate disciples believed that the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ could be faithfully summarized by five affirmations concerning the way God saves sinners from His wrath. Moved by the testimony of the Word of God itself, the Reformers declared that ‘Scripture Alone,’ the ultimate authority, testifies that salvation is by God’s ‘Grace Alone,’ through ‘Faith Alone,’ in the work of ‘Christ Alone,’ to the ‘Glory of God Alone’!

This coming Lord’s Day we will consider the last of these five declarations concerning the salvation of lost sinners, ‘To the Glory of God Alone,’ or Soli Deo Gloria. Our sermon text for this message is found in the letter from the Apostle Paul written to the Church of Ephesus. There in Ephesians 3:20-21 he declares: “Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”