2024-10-20

Posted on Oct 19, 2024 in Bulletin |

Evil Spirits and Book Burning

  • Welcome | Announcements
    • Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
    • Sun @ 9am – Sunday School (Adults and Kids)
    • Nov 7 @ 5pm – Community Supper
    • Nov 11 @ 11am – Veterans Day Luncheon
  • Welcoming the Light of Christ
  • Opening Prayer
  • Call To Worship – Isaiah 52:7-10
    • 7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvations, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”
    • 8 The voices of your watchmen- they lift up their voice; together they sing for joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the LORD to Zion.
    • 9 Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem.
    • 10 The LORD has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
  • Worship Hymns
    • OGRP 160 – I Love to Tell the Story
    • UMH 577 – God of Grace and God of Glory
    • UMH 95 – Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow
  • Offering
  • Prayer Hymn
    • Cornerstone – © 2011 Hillsong MP Songs
  • Intercessory Prayer
  • Sermon – “Evil Spirits and Book Burning” [Acts 19:11-20 ESV]
    • 11 And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,
    • 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them.
    • 13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.”
    • 14 Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
    • 15 But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?”
    • 16 And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
    • 17 And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks. And fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was extolled.
    • 18 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.
    • 19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.
    • 20 So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
  • Communion
  • Closing Hymn
    • UMH 671 – Lord, Dismiss Us With Thy Blessing
  • Benediction
  • Postlude