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Baptist Church in Warren
January 25, 2009 10:00 am
Rev. Esther Irish, Minister
*Let those who are able, please stand
Ushers will collect Prayer cards during the first hymn.
Prelude /Chiming of the Hour
Welcome
Call to Worship
*Adoration of God #
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*Invocation (Disciples’ Prayer)
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen
*Psalm for Today Psalm 139: 1 – 6, 13 - 18 (NLT)
O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.
You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do.
You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord.
You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand!
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered!
I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up, you are still with me!
Our Offering To GOD
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*Doxology # 572
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise him all creatures here below:
Praise him above ye heavn’ ly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
*Prayer of Dedication
Announcements
Scripture Reading 1 Samuel 3:1 - 10, 11 - 20 (NLT)
Meanwhile, the boy Samuel served the Lord by assisting Eli. Now in those days messages from the Lord were very rare, and visions were quite uncommon.
2 One night Eli, who was almost blind by now, had gone to bed. 3 The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was sleeping in the Tabernacle near the Ark of God. 4 Suddenly the Lord called out, “Samuel!”
“Yes?” Samuel replied. “What is it?” 5 He got up and ran to Eli. “Here I am. Did you call me?”
“I didn’t call you,” Eli replied. “Go back to bed.” So he did.
6 Then the Lord called out again, “Samuel!”
Again Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am. Did you call me?”
“I didn’t call you, my son,” Eli said. “Go back to bed.”
7 Samuel did not yet know the Lord because he had never had a message from the Lord before. 8 So the Lord called a third time, and once more Samuel got up and went to Eli. “Here I am. Did you call me?”
Then Eli realized it was the Lord who was calling the boy. 9 So he said to Samuel, “Go and lie down again, and if someone calls again, say, ‘Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.’ ” So Samuel went back to bed.
10 And the Lord came and called as before, “Samuel! Samuel!”
And Samuel replied, “Speak, your servant is listening.”
11 Then the Lord said to Samuel, “I am about to do a shocking thing in Israel. 12 I am going to carry out all my threats against Eli and his family, from beginning to end. 13 I have warned him that judgment is coming upon his family forever, because his sons are blaspheming God and he hasn’t disciplined them. 14 So I have vowed that the sins of Eli and his sons will never be forgiven by sacrifices or offerings.”
Samuel Speaks for the Lord
15 Samuel stayed in bed until morning, then got up and opened the doors of the Tabernacle as usual. He was afraid to tell Eli what the Lord had said to him. 16 But Eli called out to him, “Samuel, my son.”
“Here I am,” Samuel replied.
17 “What did the Lord say to you? Tell me everything. And may God strike you and even kill you if you hide anything from me!” 18 So Samuel told Eli everything; he didn’t hold anything back. “It is the Lord’s will,” Eli replied. “Let him do what he thinks best.”
19 As Samuel grew up, the Lord was with him, and everything Samuel said proved to be reliable. 20 And all Israel, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord.
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*Hymn of Worship #
“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”
Pastoral Prayer
*Hymn of Petition #
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Scripture Text Romans 8: 24 – 39 (NLT)
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)
26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will. 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the
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powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Message Rev. Irish
Hope
*Hymn of Benediction #
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*Benediction
*Gloria Patri (Sung together) # 575
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
*Postlude
· Children of the Heavenly Father
· Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus
· How Firm a Foundation
· I Am His and He Is Mine
· It Is Well with My Soul
· I’ve Found a Friend
· Jesus, Lover of My Soul
· O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
· O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
· Why Should He Love Me So?
· Gracious Spirit, Dwell With Me
· Jesus Never Fails
· I Would Be Like Jesus
· O to Be Like Thee!
· All the Way My Savior Leads Me
· Now Thank We All Our God
· Jesus Loves Even Me
· Jesus Loves Me
· Jesus, Still Lead On
· Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee
· Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Jesus, What a Friend for Sinners | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Now I Belong to Jesus | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· O That Will Be Glory For Me | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· The Lily of the Valley | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Thine Is the Glory | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· Victory in Jesus | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· When We All Get to Heaven | Hymns and Scripture Selection Guide
· He Loves Me | Steve Green’s MIDI Hymnal
· If God Himself Be for Me | Steve Green’s MIDI Hymnal
· Just to Know | Steve Green’s MIDI Hymnal
· O Listen to the Wondrous Story | Steve Green’s MIDI Hymnal
· Sweet Is the Prayer | Steve Green’s MIDI Hymnal
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