Emmaus Blog – Emmaus Bible Church https://emmausbiblechurch.org Glorify God, Live Together, Make Disciples Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:30:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/emmausbiblechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-IMG-1477.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Emmaus Blog – Emmaus Bible Church https://emmausbiblechurch.org 32 32 94610861 Advent Series https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2019/11/22/advent-series/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 17:30:24 +0000 https://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5373 Well, it has come faster than you thought, right? Thanksgiving will soon be over; the season of Advent will begin. Throughout church history, Christians have found it helpful on the Sundays leading up to Christmas to remind themselves of the great mystery that stands at the heart of the Christian message – that God became man for us and for our salvation…

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]]> Well, it has come faster than you thought, right? Thanksgiving will soon be over; the season of Advent will begin. Throughout church history, Christians have found it helpful on the Sundays leading up to Christmas to remind themselves of the great mystery that stands at the heart of the Christian message – that God became man for us and for our salvation in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. In December, we’ll be thinking about that great theme using the four songs that litter the opening section of the gospel according to Luke. They are, if you like, the very first Christmas carols; songs of joy from Mary, Zechariah, the angels, and Simeon, responding to the news of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.  If you look at these songs, you’ll see people standing, as it were, on the edge of the ineffable, the great mystery that God should be joined to humanity in the person of Christ. And that message melts hearts. Prose simply will not do. We must sing! It seems to be the best vehicle for responding to the wonder and the glory of what happens in the birth of Jesus Christ. As we study these songs together we aim to respond in like fashion: so overwhelmed by the glory and grace found in God’s redemptive coming in Jesus we can’t help but burst into praise. If you’d like to get a head start on the reading, here’s the preaching schedule for December: 

Advent Schedule

Sunday, December 1, 2019 Luke Gorsett Luke 1:39-56 Advent Series
Sunday, December 8, 2019 Ron Martina Luke 1:57-75 Advent Series
Sunday, December 15, 2019 Luke Gorsett Luke 1:76-79 Advent Series
Sunday, December 22, 2019 Ramel Williams Luke 2:8-21 Advent Series
Tuesday, December 24, 2019 Luke Gorsett Luke 2:22-35 Christmas Eve Service
Sunday, December 29, 2019 Luke Gorsett Luke 9:57-62 New Year Sermon

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]]> 5373 Weekly Liturgy – 1/20/2019 https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2019/01/18/weekly-liturgy-1-20-2019/ Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:22:23 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5099 The New Temple Purpose This weekly liturgy is meant to help you prepare your heart and mind for the Sunday morning gathering. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures to focus your heart on Christ and prepare for our Sunday morning gathering.  Theme Jesus’ clash with…

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Purpose

This weekly liturgy is meant to help you prepare your heart and mind for the Sunday morning gathering. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures to focus your heart on Christ and prepare for our Sunday morning gathering. 

Theme

Jesus’ clash with religious authorities at the temple asks all of us the question: Who is Lord?

Call to Worship 

1 And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. 2 And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” 3 And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” 4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5 For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 6 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”–he then said to the paralytic–“Rise, pick up your bed and go home.” 7 And he rose and went home. 8 When the crowds saw it, they were afraid, and they glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

Matthew 9:1-8

Confession of Sin 

25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 20:25-28

Assurance of Pardon 

7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 55:7

Sermon Text 

12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.

John 2:12-25

Sermon Outline

Four parts to this scene that help us answer the ultimate question: Who is Lord?

   (1) The Demonstration of Jesus’ Authority (12-16)

   (2) The Response to Jesus’ Authority (17-18)

   (3) The Proof of Jesus’ Authority (19-22)

   (4) The Prerogatives of Jesus’ Authority (23-25)

Benediction

22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 1:22-23

Congregational Songs

On Jordan’s Stormy Banks

Abide With Me

O To Be Like Thee

O Church Arise

Not In Me

Prayer Points

  1. Pray for Pastor Luke Gorsett as he prepares to preach God’s Word
  2. Pray for your own heart and mind to receive God’s Word with humility

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]]> 5099 Weekly Liturgy https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2019/01/04/weekly-liturgy-14/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 21:07:25 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5084 Come and See Purpose This weekly liturgy is meant to help you prepare your heart and mind for the Sunday morning gathering. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures to focus your heart on Christ and prepare for our Sunday morning gathering.  Theme Once your soul…

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Purpose

This weekly liturgy is meant to help you prepare your heart and mind for the Sunday morning gathering. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures to focus your heart on Christ and prepare for our Sunday morning gathering. 

Theme

Once your soul gets a glimpse of the glory of Christ, your life will never be the same.

Call to Worship 

9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
10 and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
12 saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.” (Rev 7:9-12)

Confession of Sin 

15 For this people’s heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’ (Mat 13:15)

Assurance of Pardon 

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. (Mat 13:16)

Sermon Text 

35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. 40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” 48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” (John 1:35-51)

Sermon Outline

Outline: Six glimpses of the glory of Christ 
(1) The superiority of Christ (35-37)
(2) The sacrifice of Christ (36)
(3) The accessibility of Christ (38-39)
(4) The assertiveness of Christ (40-43)
(5) The omniscience of Christ (44-49)
(6) The revelation of Christ (50-51)

Benediction

Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. (1 John 3:2)

Congregational Songs

  1. How Great Thou Art
  2. Ancient of Days
  3. Now Why This Fear
  4. Before the Throne of God Above
  5. Jesus, I Come

Prayer Points

  1. Pray for Luke Gorsett as he prepares to preach God’s Word
  2. Pray for your own heart and mind to receive God’s Word with humility

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]]> 5084 Weekly Liturgy – 12/30/18 https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2018/12/28/weekly-liturgy-12-30-18/ Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:01:44 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5077 Mistaken Identities Purpose This weekly liturgy is meant to help you prepare your heart and mind for the Sunday morning gathering. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures to focus your heart on Christ and prepare for our Sunday morning gathering.  Theme We must believe John’s testimony that Jesus is the Christ. Call…

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Purpose

This weekly liturgy is meant to help you prepare your heart and mind for the Sunday morning gathering. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures to focus your heart on Christ and prepare for our Sunday morning gathering. 

Theme

We must believe John’s testimony that Jesus is the Christ.

Call to Worship 

14 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
15 Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous:
“The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, 16 the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”
17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.
18 The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
20 This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous shall enter through it.
21 I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
22 The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
23 This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:14-24

Confession of Sin 

13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile… – 1 Peter 1:13-17

Assurance of Pardon 

17 And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,
18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
21 who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. – 1 Peter 1:17-21

Sermon Text 

 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” 22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight[a] the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” 28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” 32 And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son[b] of God.” – John 1:19-34

Sermon Outline

Two identities clarified

  1. John is not the Christ (19-28)

  2. Jesus is the Christ (29-34)

Benediction

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.
4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. – 1 John 4:1-4

Congregational Songs

  1. O Worship the King
  2. Behold our God
  3. There is a Fountain Filled with Blood
  4. Behold the Lamb
  5. When I survey the Wondrous Cross

Prayer Points

  1. Pray for Thomas Anderson as he prepares to preach God’s Word
  2. Pray for your own heart and mind to receive God’s Word with humility

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]]> 5077 2019 Chronological Reading Plan https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2018/12/27/2019-chronological-reading-plan/ Thu, 27 Dec 2018 19:30:08 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5055 Read The Bible Chronologically This Year Join us in 2019 as we read through the Bible together as a Church. Make sure to click the link below for dates and daily reading assignments. CLICK HERE to Acess Emmaus Bible Church’s Chronological Reading Program for 2019

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Join us in 2019 as we read through the Bible together as a Church. Make sure to click the link below for dates and daily reading assignments.

CLICK HERE to Acess Emmaus Bible Church’s Chronological Reading Program for 2019

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]]> 5055 Christmas Eve Service https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2018/12/24/christmas-eve-service/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:57:04 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5044 Incarnation for Reconciliation through Atonement Join us tonight for a night of worship as we celebrate the birth of our incarnated Lord, Jesus. Make sure to prepare your heart and mind by checking out the sermon outline below. Sermon Outline Text: Colossians 1:19, 20 Big Idea: God became human in Jesus to make peace by…

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Join us tonight for a night of worship as we celebrate the birth of our incarnated Lord, Jesus. Make sure to prepare your heart and mind by checking out the sermon outline below.

Sermon Outline

Text: Colossians 1:19, 20

Big Idea: God became human in Jesus to make peace by his death

Outline: Two things you must get in order to understand and appreciate the Christmas Story

   (1) The reality of the incarnation (19)

   (2) The purpose of the incarnation (20)

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]]> 5044 Weekly Liturgy https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2018/11/30/weekly-liturgy-13/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:57:22 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5019 Stand Firm in the Battle Purpose Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and…

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Purpose

Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures, focus your heart on Christ, pray for your brothers and sisters, prepare for the Sunday morning gathering.

Theme

To resist the enemy and advance the gospel into the world we must rely on the Lord’s power and divine resources

Call to Worship

[1] The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
[2] The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples. 
[3] Let them praise your great and awesome name! Holy is he! 

Scripture Reading

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, 18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. 21 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. (Ephesians 6:10-24)

Sermon Text 

(Ephesians 6:10-24)

Sermon Info

Title: Stand Firm in the Battle
Text: Ephesians 6:10-24
BI: To resist the enemy and advance the gospel into the world we must rely on the Lord’s power and divine resources
 
Outline: How does the church stand firm in the midst of spiritual warfare?
 
    (1) Respect the reality of the church’s conflict (10-13)
 
    (2) Recognize the adequacy of the church’s resources (14-17)
 
    (3) Realize the effectiveness of the church’s prayers (18-20)
   
     A final benediction (21-24)

Congregational Songs

  1. A Mighty Fortress is Our God  
  2. O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing
  3. All I Have is Christ
  4. O Church Arise

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]]> 5019 Weekly Liturgy https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2018/11/09/weekly-liturgy-12/ Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:51:29 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=5001 Walk in Wisdom Purpose Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind.…

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Walk in Wisdom

Purpose

Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures, focus your heart on Christ, pray for your brothers and sisters, prepare for the Sunday morning gathering.

Theme

To walk in wisdom requires intentionality, knowledge, and the Spirit.

Call to Worship

1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
3yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
4if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. (Pro 2:1-5 ESV)

Scripture Reading

13Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
15This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
18And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. (Jam 3:13-18 ESV)

Sermon Text 

15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. (Eph. 5:15-21) 

Sermon Info

Title: Walk in Wisdom
Text: Ephesians 5:15-21
BI: To walk in wisdom requires intentionality, knowledge, and the Spirit
Outline: Three components of walking in wisdom
   (1) Learn not to waste time (15-16)
   (2) Know the Lord’s will (17)
   (3) Be controlled by the Spirit (18-21)

Congregational Songs

  1.  O God Our Help in Ages Past
  2. Oh How Good it Is
  3. Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder
  4. Show Us Christ
  5. Doxology

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]]> 5001 Weekly Liturgy https://emmausbiblechurch.org/2018/10/26/weekly-liturgy-11/ Fri, 26 Oct 2018 16:31:06 +0000 http://emmausbiblechurch.org/?p=4991 Walk in Love Purpose Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind.…

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Purpose

Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures, focus your heart on Christ, pray for your brothers and sisters, prepare for the Sunday morning gathering.

Theme

Church unity derives from our shared understanding of how we should live and what we believe

Call to Worship

1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods,
    for his steadfast love endures forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
    for his steadfast love endures forever; (Psalm 136:1-3)

Scripture Reading

5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them.8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. (Col. 3:5-17)

Sermon Text 

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil.28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. 5 1Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. (Eph. 4:25-5:2)

Sermon Info

Title: Walk in Love
Big Idea: To walk in love is to replace unity destroying vices with community building virtues
 
Outline: Three Aspects of walking in love
    (1) The Foundation: Walking in love is made possible by our new nature (25a)
 
    (2) The Model: Walking in love is patterned after Christ (1-2)
 
    (3) The Substance: Walking in love is meant for building community (25-32)
        a. Replace lying with truth-telling (4: 25).
        b. Replace unrighteous anger with righteous anger (4: 26-27).    
        c. Replace stealing with working and giving (4: 28).
        d. Replace corrupt talk with edifying talk (4: 29-30).
        e. Replace bitterness and rage with kindness and forgiveness (4: 31-32).

Congregational Songs

  1. All Creatures of our God and King
  2. Sing Praise to God who Reigns Above
  3. Come Praise and Glorify
  4. Behold our God
  5. Doxology

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Purpose

Every week, Emmaus leadership creates a liturgy that reflects the truths and themes found in the sermon text. All of the songs, readings, and prayers are meant to thrust us into greater joy and love for God and His Word. Take some time this weekend to read, pray, and quiet your mind. Consider the following theme and scriptures, focus your heart on Christ, pray for your brothers and sisters, prepare for the Sunday morning gathering.

Theme

The people of God must exhibit a radical transformation from their former life.

Call to Worship

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

 2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

 4 The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

 6 for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. (Psa 1:1-6)

Confession of Sin

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. (1Co 6:9-11)

Assurance of Pardon

But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1Co 6:11b)

Sermon Text 

17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Eph. 4:17-24)

Sermon Info

Title: And Such Were Some of You

Theme: The people of God must exhibit a radical transformation from their former life

Outline: 

  1. I am no longer to behave like the old person I once was 4:17-19
  2. I am now to behave like the new person I have come to be 4:20-24
  3. Practical Considerations

Benediction

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit. (2 Co 3:18)

Congregational Songs

  1.  Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
  2. How Great Thou Art
  3. His Mercy is More
  4. Jesus I Come
  5. O Great God of Highest Heaven

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