2 Feb 2025

Welcome

Welcome

Choruses all out of the blue Presbyterian song book

Chorus

Chorus

Confession of sin

Jenny

will now read the Old Testament reading to us from the NIV pew bible.

She begins with “Hear the Word of God as it is written in Psalm 84“

She ends with “This is the word of God”.

Congregation: “Thanks be to God”.

John

will now read the New Testament reading to us from the NIV pew bible.

She begins with “Hear the Word of God as it is written in Luke2:22-40”

She ends with “This is the word of God”.

Congregation: “Thanks be to God”.

The Lord’s Prayer

Intercessory Prayer

Hymn

Sermon by Rev. George van der Westhuiizen

5. THE WITNESSING CHURCH—PART 2 Acts 2:24–36 ILLUSTRATION: The following statistics represent some of the challenges facing the church in the unfinished task of world evangelism: • As of April 2012, there were approximately 7 billion people on Earth. • Approximately 750 million (or about 11 percent) of those are willing to claim Jesus as personal Lord and Savior. • About 2.6 billion people (or 38 percent of the world’s population) have heard the gospel but have not accepted Christ yet. • At present, just over 50 percent of the world’s population (or 3.5 billion people) have not heard the gospel and most of them do not have a realistic opportunity to hear the gospel. • Here’s another way to look at the challenge of world evangelism: Of the 11,646 distinct people groups on the planet, 6,734 people groups (roughly 60 percent) contain between zero and two percent evangelical Christians. Many of these 6,734 people groups have no churches, no Bibles, no Christian literature, and no mission agencies who are seeking to share the gospel with them.

PETER TESTIFIED … 1. TO THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.—Acts 2:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.—John 5:24–25 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.—2 Corinthians 4:14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.—1 Peter 1:3 PETER TESTIFIED …

2. TO THE INSPIRATION OF DAVID For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.—Acts 2:25 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.—Psalm 16:8 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.—Acts 2:30 PETER TESTIFIED …

3. TO THE CERTAINTY OF CHRIST’S EXALTATION Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear. For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Until I make thy foes thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.—Acts 2:33–36 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.—John 1:12

Notices John Oberholzer

Collection

Praise God from whom all blessing flow

Prayer

Hymn 67 To God be the glory

Benediction

Doxology Now unto Him