The First Baptist Evangel

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1 The First Baptist Evangel April 15, 2018 Eastertide First Baptist Church of West Point is seeking to be a caring community of faith under the leadership of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Celebrating the presence and love of God in Worship, Nourishing persons in faith and discipleship, and Reaching Out to the community with Christ s unconditional Love.

2 Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, 2001, 2006 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Unless otherwise stated.) CCLI # Hearing assistance devices are available for your use. Ask for one at the sound booth.

3 Welcome We welcome you to worship at First Baptist this morning. Please help us be more faithful in our ministry to you, and get to know you better, by taking the time to put your name on the attendance pad found on your pew. Visitors, please feel free to leave as little or as much of the information requested on the pad. We promise to only contact you if you ask us to, and to only send information as you request. Members, if you have had a change to your mailing address, , or telephone number please let us know by supplying that information on the pad. Please Especially Note for Today Handbell practice resumes today. Joyful Noise at 4:00 and Adult Handbells at 4:45. WOM will meet Monday night at 6:00 at the church. Join us for Family Night activities on Wednesday starting at 6:00 PM. Please remember to sign the reservation sheet for each week you plan to attend supper. The Deacons will meet today in the Library following Sunday School. Hearing assistance devices are now available for your individual benefit. If you would like to try one speak with Robert or David at the sound booth.

4 Ministry Leaders Weekly Schedule of Activities Nursery Workers Today: Stephanie McLain Next Sunday: Ann Adams April 29: Karen Hill PEW Ministry Leaders Today: Jeri Smith & Payem Suleman Next Sunday: Ann Kerr & Janice Dallas April 29: Phoebe Graben & Suzanne Bryan Offertory Prayer Leader Today: George Hester Next Sunday: Ann Adams April 29: Linda Combs Sunday, April 15 th 9:30 Worship 10:45 Sunday School 11:30 Deacons Meeting 1:30 Choir Practice 4:00 Joyful Noise practice 4:45 Adult Handbells Wednesday, April 18 th 6:00 Family Night Supper Menu: Taco Salad 6:30 TeamKID Youth 4/12 Sunday, April 22 nd 9:30 Worship 10:45 Sunday School 1:30 Choir Practice 4:00 Joyful Noise practice 4:45 Adult Handbells practice Ann Adams is responsible for the opening and closing of the church during the month of April followed by George Hester in May. 2

5 Go out from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a shout of joy, proclaim it, send it out to the end of the earth; say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob! Isaiah 48:20 3

6 Celebrating the Presence and Love of God in Worship April 15, 2018 The Third Lord s Day of Eastertide 9:30 AM PRELUDE For your meditation: Flee from the midst of Babylon; let every one save his life! Be not cut off in her punishment, for this is the time of the LORD s vengeance, the repayment he is rendering her. THE CHIMING OF THE HOUR PREPARING FOR WORSHIP RANDALL SMITH Jeremiah 51:6 HANDBELLS ENTERING INTO GOD S PRESENCE CALL TO WORSHIP PHOEBE GRABEN Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing! To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever! Revelation 5:12 & 13b HYMN OF PRAISE (#163) MACCABEUS INVOCATION Thine Is the Glory GREETING THE ASSEMBLY OF THE SAINTS ANN ADAMS Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. Revelation 1:4 5 The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us greet one another in the Lord. SONG OF PRAISE Our God Reigns 4

7 PSALM Psalm By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down and wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows there we hung up our lyres. 3 For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion! 4 How shall we sing the LORD s song in a foreign land? 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill! 6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy! 7 Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations! 8 O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us! 9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock! This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. HYMN (#167) PRAYER OF CONFESSION Christ Is Risen ANN KERR CENTRAL LINDA COMBS ASSURANCE OF PARDON But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the 5

8 coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:4 7 GOD S WILL FOR OUR LIVES If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1 3 OFFERTORY HYMN (#429) HARRIS OFFERTORY PRAYER OFFERTORY ANTHEM All That Thrills My Soul GEORGE HESTER OFFERTORY RESPONSE Doxology OLD 100 TH Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heav nly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (Children ages 3-5 may leave for PEW Ministry during this hymn.) GOD S WORD PROCLAIMED PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION SCRIPTURE LESSON JOE DOWNS Revelation 17 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk. 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth s abominations. 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly. 7 But the angel said 6

9 to me, Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her. 8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come. 9 This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated; 10 they are also seven kings, five of whom have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he does come he must remain only a little while. 11 As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction. 12 And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet received royal power, but they are to receive authority as kings for one hour, together with the beast. 13 These are of one mind, and they hand over their power and authority to the beast. 14 They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful. 15 And the angel said to me, The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages. 16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire, 17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. 18 And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth. SERMON Babylon the Great MEDITATION ON THE WORD PROCLAIMED AFFIRMATION OF FAITH DEBRA DOWNS & CONGREGATION I believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried; He descended into hell; The third day he rose again from the dead; 7

10 He ascended into heaven, and sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From there he shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit; the holy catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen. The Apostles Creed HYMN OF RESPONSE (#491) FOREST GREEN Make Room Within My Heart, O God DEPARTING TO SERVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISCIPLESHIP AND REACHING OUT Deacons meeting after Sunday School Handbell practice resumes today WOM will meet tomorrow, 6:00 PM, at the church. Family Night activities are back starting at 6:00 PM. PHOEBE GRABEN THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS CONGREGATION Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. THE CHARGE Depart, depart, go out from there; touch no unclean thing; go out from the midst of her; purify yourselves, you who bear the vessels of the LORD. Isaiah 52:11 BENEDICTION Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Hebrews 13:20 21 POSTLUDE RANDALL SMITH 8

11 , The Bulletin Board April Happenings Sunday, April 15th Deacons Meeting Monday, April 16th WOM Summary of Operations through March: Received: $45, In Memory of Paul Fiquette Disbursed: $48, By: Frances Reeves Making the Dream a Reality: In Memory of Eley Frazer Lynn Smith: $ Food Closet: $ By: Frances Reeves

12 Church Staff Dr. Thomas J. Tucker, Pastor Mrs. Patti Scalf, Church Secretary Mrs. Jane Abercrombie, Financial Secretary Mr. Randall Smith, Church Accompanist P.O. Box E 8 th Street West Point, GA 31833