Posted on Sep 2, 2023 in Bulletin |
A Mountain of Sin
- Welcome | Announcements
- Sep 10 after worship – Ice Cream Social
- Sep 17 @ 9am – Sunday School Starts!
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – OGRP 619 – Revelation 7:9-10; 21:1-5 ESV
- 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, and crying out with a loud voice,
- “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
- Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God.
- He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
- And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
- Worship Hymns
- How Great Is Our God – © 2004 sixsteps Music
- UMH 394 – Something Beautiful
- UMH 2032 – My Life Is in You, Lord
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “A Mountain of Sin” – [Revelation 18:1-8 ESV]
- 1 After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was made bright with his glory.
- 2 And he called out with a mighty voice, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
- 3 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living.”
- 4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
- 5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
- 6 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
- 7 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’
- 8 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- UMH 404 – Every Time I Feel the Spirit
- Benediction
- Postlude