The Lord's Day Morning August 14, 2005 Ephesians 1:13-14 “Assured by the Spirit of Promise” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we look again at this great prayer. While we were looking at Ephesians 1:10 and 11 and 12 last week, we noticed the Apostle Paul praising God that God in His mercy had made these Jewish Christians, of whom Paul was a part, His people. God's people belong to Him, and God has done this by His own will, and that He's done this for His own glory, and Paul glories in that truth. And in the passage we're going to study today, he applies this same truth to the Gentile Christians in the congregation in Ephesus. Let me draw your attention to the first words of verse 11. The…