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God speaks through music! Our incredible music team works hard every week to help us focus our hearts on God, usher us into His presence, and lead us as we worship Him! But that song in our heart does not have to stop playing on Sunday. Follow along throughout the week on FBC Forest Park Radio. Click the link below for our custom playlist.
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Order of Worship
Call to Worship
We offer a song of praise celebrating who God is and all He has done!
- Praise
Welcome and Announcements
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Prayer of Illumination
We invite the Holy Spirit to minister to each of us as He intercedes on our behalf, corrects and encourages us in our relationship with The Father through The Son, and illuminates God’s word in our hearts through the reading and teaching of Scripture.
Song of Adoration and Thanksgiving
We sing songs that extol God’s grace and truth, strengthen our faith, and encourage our love for Him and others.
- Holy Spirit
Reading of the Law
- 1 Corinthians 4:7
- What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?
Confession of Sin - Song
God’s holiness exposes our corporate and individual sins. God's grace, displayed most prominently through Jesus’ death on the cross, invites us to be reunited with The Father through the regular confession of sin. Repentance is an invitation into His grace.
- Good Plans
Offering of Forgiveness and Reconciliation
We recognize our sins were forgiven by Christ’s death on the cross, and, therefore, we are called by God to forgive others who sin against us. We offer others our forgiveness and pray for reconciled relationships.
- 1 Corinthians 3:3
- If you are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other, doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?
Offering of Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Song
- Turn Your Eyes
Personal Prayer
We pause to pray and reflect on all God has revealed to us through worship, the reading of His word, and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We prayerfully respond with courage, honesty, and obedience.
Assurance of Pardon
God declares from his Word and through his Church that all who repent and believe in Jesus Christ are forgiven of their sins.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11
- You were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Family Prayer
We intercede before God on behalf of our church and our community.
Scripture Reading and Sermon
God addresses His people through the reading and preaching of His word to edify believers and exhort all people to make sense of, make much of, and make use of the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Offertory and Response
We offer an opportunity for you to make public your decision to follow Jesus, your desire to be baptized, your interest in joining our church, or any other significant spiritual decision you have made during our service.
We also give back to God recognizing He is the source of all things and blesses us through His providence and sovereignty. It is our honor to return our tithes and offerings to Him in recognition of His grace.
Doxology - Congregational Singing
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Him all creatures here below.
Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts.
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
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Let us know how God is working in your life.
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Sermon Notes
The Creed - Part 12
The Nicene Creed
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets.
We have already established:
- The Holy Spirit is God (part of the Trinity)
- He was a integral part of creation.
- He has always been present and active as the third member of the trinity.
- Access to him was limited in the Old Testament.
- Jesus prayed to The Father and asked Him to send the believers the Holy Spirit.
- The Holy Spirit went from living among us to loving in us.
- The Holy Spirit produces good fruit in our lives.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Ephesians 5:18-19
…be filled with the Holy Spirit, 19singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.
Colossians 3:16
Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.
The Nicene Creed
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. (God’s word)
The Holy Spirit breaths life into God’s word and brings that word to life in us.
Colossians 3:16-17
Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. 17And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.
God wants me to represent Jesus?
How am I supposed to do that?
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. 5There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. 6God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.
7A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. 8To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. 9The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. 10He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. 11It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
The Holy Spirit gives us what we need to follow Jesus’ model of obedience and to be who The Father has called us to be.
Disclaimer:
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
Back to the point
The Holy Spirit gives us what we need to follow Jesus’ model of obedience and to be who The Father has called us to be.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy.
The Holy Spirit gives gifts for 3 reasons:
- To strengthen the church
- To witness to the world
- To glorify God
To strengthen the church
1 Corinthians 14:12
And the same is true for you. Since you are so eager to have the special abilities the Spirit gives, seek those that will strengthen the whole church.
To witness to the world
1 Corinthians 14:22-25
So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not unbelievers. 23Even so, if unbelievers or people who don’t understand these things come into your church meeting and hear everyone speaking in an unknown language, they will think you are crazy. 24But if all of you are prophesying, and unbelievers or people who don’t understand these things come into your meeting, they will be convicted of sin and judged by what you say. 25As they listen, their secret thoughts will be exposed, and they will fall to their knees and worship God, declaring, “God is truly here among you.”
To Glorify God
1 Corinthians 14:25
As they listen, their secret thoughts will be exposed (Holy Spirit), and they will fall to their knees and worship God (joining with the church), declaring, “God is truly here among you.”
1 Corinthians 10:31
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father. Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Fundamental Error
It’s not about the rules.
It’s about the relationship.
The Torah provided instructions on how to live as God’s chosen people, not how to become God’s chosen people.
Instead of following The Law in order to live as God’s chosen people, they used the law to try to earn God’s favor.
Romans 8:28-31
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory.
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?
I Have Decided…
…to ask the Holy Spirit to give me the gifts I need to be who God called me to be.
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Weekly Budget Update
Last week's giving:
- $4,470.00
Amount needed each week to make full budget of $676,572.00 by year end:
- $12,644.18
Total funds needed YTD:
- $341,392.86
Total giving received YTD:
- $147,295.04
Difference in funds needed vs funds received:
- -$194,097.82
Percentage of giving received vs. funds needed YTD:
- 43%
Our Faith Offering is designated giving specifically for missions over and above our normal tithes.
Last week's Faith Offering:
- $190.00
Total Faith Offering YTD:
- $6,460.00