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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!

  • Graves Into Gardens



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. 

  • Who Is Like The Lord



Reading of the Law

  • John 14:1
  • Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.


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.

  • Romans 12:19
  • Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say, “I will take revenge; I will pay them back,” says the Lord.



Offering of Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Song

  • 'Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus



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.

  • John 14:2-3
  • There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.



Family Prayer

We intercede before God on behalf of our church and our community. 



Children’s Sermon

All children through 5th grade are invited to meet at the front steps for a special message. After the Children’s Sermon the kids will be dismissed to Children’s Church.



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

Seven Words To The Church - Part 7


Outline 

  • Introduction 
  • Jesus will remind the church of one of the symbols from chapter 1.
  • Approval 
  • Accusation - No "accusation" in this letter.
  • Admonition 



Revelation 3:7-8

“Write this letter to the angel of the church in Philadelphia.


This is the message from the one who is holy and true, the one who has the key of David. What he opens, no one can close; and what he closes, no one can open:

  • Promise to David - 2 Samuel 7
  • God promised David He would establish David’s throne forever. 
  • Promise to Eliakim - Isaiah 22
  • After a series of wicked kings in the nation of Israel God raised up Eliakim to be the next king. 
  • Isaiah 22
  • “This is what the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, said to me: “Confront Shebna, the palace administrator, and give him this message: “Yes, I will drive you out of office,” says the Lord. “I will pull you down from your high position. And then I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah to replace you. I will dress him in your royal robes and will give him your title and your authority. And he will be a father to the people of Jerusalem and Judah. I will give him the key to the house of David—the highest position in the royal court. When he opens doors, no one will be able to close them; when he closes doors, no one will be able to open them. He will bring honor to his family name, for I will drive him firmly in place like a nail in the wall.”
  • The king was given God’s authority to lead the people into faithfulness. 



Revelation 3:8 - Approval

8 “I know all the things you do, and I have opened a door for you that no one can close. You have little strength, yet you obeyed my word and did not deny me.

  • Jesus is our king who leads us into faithfulness! 
  • Hebrews 12:2
  • We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.


Revelation 3:9-10

9Look, I will force those who belong to Satan’s synagogue—those liars who say they are Jews but are not—to come and bow down at your feet. They will acknowledge that you are the ones I love.

10 “Because you have obeyed my command to persevere, I will protect you from the great time of testing that will come upon the whole world to test those who belong to this world.

  • Opposition will come. 
  • It will come from both inside and outside. 
  • Jesus will protect us! ...If we persevere and walk in obedience. 


There is no Accusation in this letter.


Revelation 3:11-12 - Admonition

I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take away your crown. 12All who are victorious will become pillars in the Temple of my God, and they will never have to leave it. 


And I will write on them the name of my God, 


and they will be citizens in the city of my God—the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God. 


And I will also write on them my new name.



Revelation 3:13

Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.


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Weekly Budget Update


Last week's giving:

  • $4,409.00


Amount needed each week to make full budget of $676,572.00 by year end:

  • $13,011.00


Total funds needed YTD:

  • $559,473.00


Total giving received YTD:

  • $261,965.98


Difference in funds needed vs funds received:

  • -$297,507.02


Percentage of giving received vs. funds needed YTD:

  • 47%



Our Faith Offering is designated giving specifically for missions over and above our normal tithes.


Last week's Faith Offering:

  • $275.00


Total Faith Offering YTD:

  • $11,075.00

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