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Bound for Glory
WELCOME
Good morning family.
Hear the Word of the Lord from Psalm 13
How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death, lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him,” lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.
But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.”
Do David’s words make you uncomfortable?
Does it concern you that he feels forgotten by God?
Does it bother you that the Scriptures would talk so openly about doubting God’s love and power?
If we’re honest we sometimes think the same things.
So we must learn to do what the Psalmist does.
We must bring our doubts to the Lord.
And then we must remind ourselves of the truth.
My prayer is that the Lord will use our service today to help you do the same thing.
In just a moment we’ll hear a reading from the text for today’s sermon in Matthew 11.
You can find it on PAGE 969 in the black Bibles.
Turn there now.
While you’re turning, 4 quick announcements:
1) A word about PBC.
We are servants.
You may have noticed when you came in here the back corner sectioned off.
That’s because PBC is the main collection center on the Peninsula for a ministry called Operation Christmas Child.
If you don’t know much about OCC, check out their display to my right
While you’re there, ask about the many opportunities to serve alongside this ministry over the next month
While we’re talking about OCC, save the date for our...
2) Packing Party, November 13 at 5 PM
Great opportunity to serve together as a family
We are asking you to help us by bringing a soup or a dessert to share
3) Trunk or Treat, next Sunday from 5-7 PM
Our hope is to engage our community.
Please pray we’re able to build relationships and even speak the gospel with our friends and neighbors
4) TableTalk tonight at 5:30 PM
Mike Lindell will be teaching us about the command to “instruct one another” from Romans 15:14
Now look in your Bibles at Matthew 11:2 as Judy Johnson comes to read for us.
Scripture Reading (Matthew 11:2-15)
Prayer of Praise (God is wrathful), Judy Johnson
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Hymn of Heaven
Prayer of Confession (Anger), Nathan Rathbone
Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul
PBC Catechism #43
Remind people what the catechism is and why we do it
What will happen to believers when Jesus returns?
Believers in Christ will be resurrected to everlasting blessedness and joy in God’s presence.
Pastoral Prayer (Hopson)
Thanksgiving—Preservation of Scripture
Your Word says about itself… “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
(Isaiah 40:8)
Jesus Himself said… “until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”
(Matthew 5:18)
In a culture that tempts us to doubt the truthfulness of Scripture, thank you for telling us that we can trust it because You have preserved it.
Help us to trust you.
Prayer for PBC—Right understanding of Conversion
Be careful to admit members with a credible profession of faith
Be careful not to assume that morality/niceness = regeneration
Be faithful to speak the gospel to the children and young people among us
Be bold in our evangelism because we know that you are the one who saves, not us
Prayer for sister church—Christ Fellowship Church (Peter Hess)
Provision for a building, patient trust while they wait
Culture of evangelism
Peter as husband to Missy and dad to Kate, Owen, Ryle, and Bryn
Prayer for US—Against addiction
Whether it’s a problem with alcohol, opioids, or any other substance, addiction kills thousands of Americans every year and impacts millions of lives.
Drug overdose deaths have more than tripled since 1990.
Our culture tells us that addiction is first and foremost a mental health condition requiring therapeutic treatment
Your Word tells us that addiction is first and foremost a worship issue require heart change
Addiction is a “banquet in the grave”
Help us to be compassionate towards those in our own communities who are suffering with some form of addiction
Help us to be faithful to tell them the Good News
Prayer for the world—Haiti
The 2010 earthquake took up to 300,000 lives, and left 1.6 million people homeless.
The decade-long cholera outbreak that followed claimed thousands more and made over a million sick.
The President was assassinated in his own home in July 2021.
This was followed by another huge earthquake a month later.
Now, corruption, exploitation, grievous inequality, political wrangling, state capture, and powerful armed gangs add to Haiti’s suffering.
The layers of brokenness seem impossible to fix.
Pray for God to break through and bring lasting change in this land desperate for salvation.
Local churches
Laborers
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SERMON
I’m not a huge fan of doctors.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for what they do.
I’m just not sure I can trust them enough to tell them my problems.
I come by it honestly...
Voice issues at 18. Couldn’t talk.
Doctors told me I was “trying too hard to sound masculine.”
Blood clots at 30.
Couldn’t walk.
Doctors told me, “you really shouldn’t be in any pain at all.”
ER visit earlier this year.
Thought I had kidney stones.
Turns out it was cysts popping in my kidneys (explain PKD).
Doctor asked me, “so how long have you had polycystic ovaries?”
I guess I shouldn’t complain.
For the most part, doctors have taken care of my physical issues.
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