Elder Robert Patterson will
speak Sabbath November 22, 2008
WEEKLY
BULLETIN FOR SABBATH November 22, 2008
FELLOWSHIP & SHARING
Song
Service
Praise Team
Introit
To be Updated
Affirmation
To be Updated
"Praise God from whom all blessings
flow"
Invocation
To be Updated
"Make us One Lord"
ADORATION & PRAISE
Welcome
Host/Hostess
Announcements
Clerk/Pastor/Elder
Praise & Worship
Praise Team
Opening Hymn
He's God
Hymn #
To be Updated
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To be Updated
STEWARDSHIP & GRATITUDE
Intercessory Prayer
To be Updated
Special Music
To be Updated
Offertory
To be Updated
Children's Chapel
Storyteller
PROCLAMATION
OF THE WORD
Sermonic Text
To be Updated
Luke 14:16-24
Introduction of Speaker
To be Updated
Meditation
To be Updated
Spoken Word
Elder Robert Patterson
To be Updated
Closing Hymn
Choirster
Selected
Benediction
To be Updated
Thought For the Week
Addressed to Me Personally
I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me; thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Ps. 40:17.
There is danger of not making Christ's teachings a personal matter, of not receiving them as though they were addressed to us personally. In His words of instruction Jesus means me. I may appropriate to myself His merits, His death, His cleansing blood, as fully as though there were not another sinner in the world for whom Christ died....
There are toils and conflicts and self-denials for us all. Not one will escape them. We must tread the path where Jesus leads the way. It may be in tears, in trials, in bereavements, in sorrow for sins, or in seeking for the mastery over depraved desires, unbalanced characters, and unholy tempers. It requires earnest effort to present ourselves a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. It takes the entire being. There is no chamber of the mind where Satan can hold sway and carry out his devices. Self must be crucified. Consecration, submission, and sacrifices must be made that will seem like taking the very lifeblood from the heart.
Will it make you sad to be buffeted, despised, derided, maligned of the world? It ought not, for Jesus told us just how it would be. "If the world hate you," He says, "ye know that it hated me before it hated you" (John 15:18). The apostle Paul, the great hero of faith, testifies: "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." (Rom. 8:18). "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Cor. 4:17).
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