the lord`s day november 16, 2014
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the lord`s day november 16, 2014
THE LORD’S DAY NOVEMBER 16, 2014 PRAYER REQUESTS 9:50 a.m. WORSHIP 10:00 a.m. Call to Worship Psalm 2:11-12 “Serve the LORD with fear, And rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, And you perish in the way, When His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.” (NKJV) * Praise * Prayer of Invocation Tithes and Offerings Psalm Meditation Praise Pastoral Prayer * Praise Scripture Reading Sermon Prayer * Praise * Benediction * Doxology… Psalm 2A (Pastor Kuehner) 102D Psalm 102D Psalm 24C Psalm 11 “God is Our Refuge” Psalm 46C Psalm 106G Blessed be the LORD, The God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen.” O praise the LORD! * Congregation standing ANNOUNCEMENTS CLASS TIME Church History 11:50 a.m. November Jobs: 1. Wendy / Sophia, 2. Lisa, 3. Parnell, 4. Maegan / Frederick, 5. Cameron / Wade, Greeters: Darrell / Paul PRAYER ITEMS The Free Church of Scotland congregation in Toronto voted recently to become a congregation of the RPCNA. They will be received into the St. Lawrence Presbytery, which has already approved their reception and were waiting for the vote. Please pray that that transition will take place smoothly and they as a congregation will be blessed by their new relationship with us. The RP Global Missions board members (Dave Long, David Hanson and Heather Huizing) who are in South Sudan to encourage the saints there and to help evaluate the work as plans are made for the future. Dr. Ken Smith (President of Geneva College) writes, “Dear colaborers in Christ, On November 19, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia will hear oral argument in Geneva College’s challenge to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department’s mandate under the Affordable Care Act that we provide coverage for abortion-inducing drugs and devices as part of our student and employee health insurance plans. In response to our lawsuit, filed in February, 2012, the U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh entered preliminary injunctions preventing the government from using our student and employee health plans as conduits for the provision of abortion-inducing drugs and devices. The government appealed, asking the appellate court to vacate those injunctions. The College’s case has been consolidated on appeal with cases brought by Roman Catholic entities in Pittsburgh and Erie. As a reminder, our suit is not directed at preventative contraception, but is about protecting Geneva and other religious organizations from government mandates that require us to act against our convictions. We believe that this mandate is a violation of the freedoms of religion and free speech guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and affirming legislation such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Please pray: (1) for our attorney Greg Baylor as he prepares for and presents our case; (2) for attorney Mickey Pohl, who will present argument on behalf of the Catholic organizations challenging the Mandate; (3) that the oral arguments and briefs will persuade the judges to rule in favor of Geneva College and the Catholic entities; and (4) that God will be glorified no matter what the outcome. In His grace, Dr. Ken Smith” Peyman (the young boy from Cyprus) has been in the United States with his mother (Felek) now for 15 months for medical care. Felek recently started taking driving lessons. Peyman began stage two of his treatment last Monday. The doctors at the hospital in Philadelphia put a cast on each foot extending all the way up the thigh to turn each foot outward, and to flatten each arch to deal with his club feet. Every Monday for the next three months he will get a new cast to continue the pressure. Peyman is in good spirits and enjoying attending a local kindergarten. The application for Felek’s husband and older son to secure visas to come to the United States remains in the hands of our government. Please pray for his mother, father, brother, his doctors and Peyman himself that God’s abundant grace would meet all their needs. First RP in Grand Rapids regarding the call on Craig Scott as Pastor. Other churches in the RPCNA that are without pastors. Nitu as she is away in India with Naman until after the birth of her second child. Pray for her husband Himanshu in her absence. Pray that God would bless the door-to-door visits and that He would make disciples for Himself from among the men, women, children and families of Southfield. Give thanks for visitors that the Lord sends to us and seek opportunities to minister to them. Pray especially for those who do not know God that they might come to Him through the preaching of Christ in our midst. The expansion of the RP Church into India, Pakistan, Mexico, Central and South America and throughout East Asia. Pray for Ram Rao and family, Venky and others laboring for the Gospel in India. Our brothers and sisters in Christ in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan with threats from ISIS and other militant Islamic forces. For additional new work for Jonathan Hart. UPCOMING SCHEDULE Tuesday: Prayer meeting in Ann Arbor. Wednesday: Prayer meeting at the church is cancelled this week. Next Lord’s Morning and afternoon worship services with Day: fellowship lunch. Nov. 30 Evangelistic service and fellowship brunch. Fifth Sabbath Special Offering (designation still to be determined). SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION 1 Peter 1:22-25a, “Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 because ‘All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away, 25 But the word of the LORD endures forever.’” (NKJV) Sermon Notes Compare the glorious change thou shalt have at last, with the gracious change which the Spirit hath here wrought on thy heart. There is not the smallest sincere grace in thee, but is of greater worth than the riches of the Indies; not a hearty desire a er Christ, but is more to be valued than the kingdoms of the world. A renewed nature is the very image of God; Christ dwelling in us, and the Spirit of God abiding in us; it is a beam from the face of God; the seed of God remaining in us; the only inherent beauty of the ra onal soul: it ennobles man above all nobility; ts him to understand his Maker’s pleasure, do his will, and receive his glory. If this grain of mustard-seed be so precious, what is “the tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God!” If a spark of life, which will but strive against corrup ons, and ame out a few desires and groans, be of so much worth, how glorious then is the fountain of this life! If we are said to be like God when we are pressed down with a body of sin; surely we shall be much more like God when we have no such thing as sin within us. Is the desire a er, and love of heaven, so excellent; what then is the thing itself? Is our joy in foreseeing and believing so sweet; what will be the joy of full possession? How glad is a Chris an when he feels his heart begin to melt, and be dissolved with the thoughts of sinful unkindness! Even this sorrow yields him joy. O what then will it be, when we shall know, and love, and rejoice, and praise in the highest perfec on! Thine with thyself, “What a change was it to be taken from that state wherein I was born, and in which I was riveted by custom, when thousands of sins lay against me; and if I had so died, I have been damned for ever! What an astonishing change, to be jus ed from all these enormous crimes, and freed from all these fearful plagues, and made an heir of heaven! How o en, when I have thought of my regenera on, have I cried out, O blessed day! and blessed be the Lord that ever I saw it! How, then, shall I cry out in heaven, O blessed eternity! and blessed be the Lord that brought me to it! Did the angels of God rejoice to see my conversion? surely they will congratulate my felicity in my salva on. Grace is but a spark raked up in the ashes, covered with esh from the sight of the world, and some mes covered with corrup on from my own sight; but my everlas ng glory will not be so clouded, nor my light be ‘under a bushel, but upon a hill,’ even upon mount Sion, the mount of God.” – Richard Baxter (1650), The Saints' Everlas ng Rest SRPC SOUTHFIELD REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH “Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” Psalm 29:2 26550 Evergreen Road. Southfield, MI 48076 248.356.3932 reformed.com srpc.sermonaudio.com