Posted on May 27, 2023 in Bulletin |
Eating the Scroll?
- Welcome | Announcements
- May 24 @ 7pm – Choir Practice
- Jun 3 @ 8am – Men’s Bible Study
- Jun 4 – Plano Methodist Church Special Offering
- Jun 9 – Kane County Cougars “All Faiths Night”
- Jun 23/24 – Garage Sale
- Jul 10 – 13 @ 9am – Vacation Bible School
- July 16 after worship – Church Picnic
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – UMH 677 – Listen, Lord (A Prayer)
- O Lord, we come this morning knee-bowed and body-bent before thy throne of grace.
- O Lord – this morning – bow our hearts beneath our knees, and our knees in some lonesome valley.
- We come this morning like empty pitchers to a full fountain, with no merits of our own.
- O Lord, open up a window of heaven, and lean out far over the battlements of glory, and listen this morning.
- Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- UMH 512 – Stand By Me
- UMH 176 – Majesty, Worship His Majesty
- TFWS 2022 – Great Is the Lord
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- UMH 557 – Blest Be the Tie That Binds
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “Eating the Scroll?” – [Revelation 10 ESV]
- 1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
- 2 He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,
- 3 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
- 4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.”
- 5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
- 6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,
- 7 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.
- 8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me again, saying, “Go, take the scroll that is open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
- 9 So I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”
- 10 And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it. It was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach was made bitter.
- 11 And I was told, “You must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and languages and kings.”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 580 – Lead On, O King Eternal
- Benediction
- Postlude