2023-07-30

The Great Harvest

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Sep 10 after worship – Ice Cream Social
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Joel 3:12-14, 16 ESV
    • 12 Let the nations stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
    • 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in, tread, for the winepress is full. The vats overflow, for their evil is great.
    • 14 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
    • 16 The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth quake. But the LORD is a refuge to his people, a stronghold to the people of Israel.
  • Worship Hymns
    • UMH 601 – Thy Word Is a Lamp
    • Shout to the Lord – © 1993 Wondrous Worship
    • UMH 70 – Glory Be to the Father
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • TFWS 2158 – Just a Closer Walk with Thee
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “The Great Harvest” – [Revelation 14:12-20 ESV]
    • 12 Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
    • 13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”
    • 14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
    • 15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”
    • 16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
    • 17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
    • 18 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, “Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe.”
    • 19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
    • 20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood flowed from the winepress, as high as a horse’s bridle, for 1,600 stadia.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • TFWS 2223 – They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love
  • Benediction
  • Postlude