GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH

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1 GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH SUNDAY SEPT. 19, 2010 The organ prelude marks the beginning of the worship service. It calls us to quiet ourselves and to direct our hearts and minds toward Him. Prelude Jesus, What a Friend of Sinners! arr. by Priscilla J. King Call to Worship Let s Forget About Ourselves Insert Bind Us Together, Lord Invocation Gloria Patri Insert Announcements Hymn Holy, Holy, Holy 70 Hymn Immortal, Invisible 34 Hymn A Mighty Fortress Is Our God 36 Praise and Prayer John Bottomley In His Word Abomination Part II Gen. 19:11 Benediction Closing Chorus Freely, Freely Insert ********************* Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Isaiah 5:20 ********************* Minister John Bottomley Teacher Ron Blackman Organist Rie Pointer 1420 N. Florida Ave. Tampa, FL Walk in the Light Walk in the light: so shalt thou know That fellowship of love His Spirit only can bestow, Who reigns above. Walk in the light: and thou shalt find Thy heart made truly His, Who dwells in cloudless light enshrined, In whom no darkness is. Walk in the light: and thou shalt own Thy darkness passed away, Because that Light hath on thee shone, In which is perfect day. Walk in the light: and e en the tomb No fearful shade shall wear; Glory shall chase away its gloom, For Christ hath conquered there. Walk in the light: and thine shall be A path, though thorny, bright; For God, by grace, shall dwell in thee, And God Himself is Light. Bernard Barton

2 ANNOUNCEMENTS... 09/19 Sun. 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Fellowship & Refreshments 11:30 AM Morning Worship 09/22 Wed. 7:00 PM Mid-Week Service Prayer, Praise, And Bible Study Adult Study: I John Kids Club: Respect Youth; Questions? Remember soup collection for Metropolitan Ministries On the table at the entrance to the sanctuary you will find visitor cards, prayer cards, the attendance register, and the offering box. If you have never completed a visitor card, please complete one and place it in the offering box. If you have completed a visitor card on a previous visit, please register your attendance today by signing the attendance register. Please, please, examine the prayer list and tell Pastor of any changes that need to be made. A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE PROOF READING IS A DYING ART Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter This one I caught in the SGV Tribune the other day and called the Editorial Room and asked who wrote this. It took two or three readings before the editor realized that what he was reading was impossible!!! They put in a correction the next day. YOU KNOW YOU RE FROM KENTUCKY IF... We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas. YOU RE A FLORIDIAN IF YOU KNOW: You've hosted a hurricane party. THOUGHTS TO PONDER If the world were a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle. EVER WONDER If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal? IN HIS SERVICE...IN HIS HOUSE Date Nursery Refresh. Ushers 09/19 Katie Miller Lowry 09/26 Ian Pointer R. Blackman 10/03 Jonah Blackman Bottomley SIGNS FOR THE MODERN WOMAN PROVERBS FOR LIVING Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife. Proverbs 17:1

3 Let All the World in Every Corner Sing Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! The heavens are not too high, His praise may thither fly; The earth is not too low, His praises there may grow. Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! The Church with psalms must shout, No door can keep them out: But, above all, the heart Must bear the longest part. Let all the world in every corner sing: My God and King! George Herbert

4 70 REGINALD HEBER Holy, Holy, Holy NICAEA JOHN B. DYKES Immortal, Invisible WALTER CHALMERS SMITH ST.DENIO Welsh melody From Roberts' Canaidau y Cyssegr Ho-Iy, Ho-Iy, 2. Ho-Iy, Ho-Iy, 3. Ho-Iy, Ho-Iy, 4. Ho-Iy, Ho-Iy, Ho- ly, Ho- ly! Ho- ly! Ho- ly, Lord God AI- might- y! AIl the saints a - dore Thee, Tho thedark-ness hide Thee, Lord God AI- m~~- y I Ear - ly in the Cast-ingdown their Tho the eye of AIl Thyworks shall 1. Im-mor-tal, in- vis- i - ble, God on-iy 2. Un- rest- ing, un- hast-ing, and si-ient as 3. To all, life Thougiv- est - to bothgreat and 4. Great Fa- ther of glo- ry, pure Fa- ther of wise, In light in - ac - light, Nor want-ing, nor small, In all life Thou light, Thine an-gels a- morn - ing our song shall rise to gold-en crowns a- round the glass-y sin - ful man Thy glo - ry may not praise Thy name in earth and sky and Thee; sea; see; sea; Ho- ly, Ho-Iy, Ho - ly! Cher-u-bim and ser-a - phim On - lythou art ho - ly- Ho - ly, Ho-Iy, Ho - Iy! ces - si - ble hid from wast - ing, Thou rul - est liv - est- the true life dore Thee, all veil- ing our in of their eyes, might; all; sight; Most bless-ed, ~ost glo-rious, the Thy jus- tice, likemoun-tains, high We blos- som and flour-ish as All praise we would ren-der- 0 I I f". Mer - ci- ful and Might-y! God in Three Per- sons, bless-edtrin-i - ty! fall - ing down be - fore Thee, Which wert and art and ev- er-more shalt be. there is none be - 'side Thee Per - fect in pow'r, in love and pur-i - ty. Mer - ci - ful and Might- y! God in Three Per- sons, bless-ed Trin- i - ty! 1.._1 b An-,cient of soar-ing a- leaves on the help us to Days, AI-might- y, vic - to-rious- Thy great name we praise. bove Thy clouds,which are foun-tains of good-ness and love. tree, And with- er and per- ish- but naughtchang-eth Thee. see 'Tis on - Iy the splen-dor of light hid - eth Thee!."D

5 36 A Mighty Fortress Is Our God MARTIN LUTHER, Trans. by Frederick H. Hedge, BIN' FESTE BURG 1. A might-y for - tress is.our God, A bul-wark nev- er 2. Did we in our own strength con-fide Our striv-ingwould be 3. And tho this world, with dev-us filled, Should threaten to un- 4. That word a - bove all earth-ly pow'rs-no thanks to them- a -.n MARTIN LUTHER, ~ fail - ing; los - ing, do.us, bid - eth; ~ LET'S FORGET ABOUT OURSELVES Let's forget about ourselves, magnify the Lord and worship Him. Let's forget about ourselves, magnify the Lord and worship Him. Let's forget about ourselves, magnify the Lord and worship Him. o worship Him, Jesus Christ our Lord. BIND US TOGETHER, LORD Bind us together, Lord. Bind us together, Lord. Bind us together in love. Bind us together, Lord. Bind us together, Lord. Bind us together in love. Our help-er He a- Were not the right Man We will not fear, for The Spir-it and the mid the flood Of mor-tal ills pre - vair- ing. on our side, The Man of God's own chaos - ing. God hath willed His truth to tri- umph thru us. gifts are ours Thru Him who with us sid - eth..n.. ~ ~ - -~t:\ GLORIA PATRI Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be WorId without end. Amen. Amen A HAPPy BIRTHDAY/ANNIVERSARY TO YOU A happy birthday to you... a happy anniversary to you. Every day of the year... may you find Jesus near. A happy birthday to you... a happy anniversary to you. The best you have ever had. For still our an- cient foe ]jost ask who that may be? The prince of dark-ness grim- Let goods and kin-dred go, Doth seek to work us woe- Christ Je-sus, it is He- We trem-ble not for him; This mar-tal life al - so; ;. His craft and Lord Sab - a - His rage we The bod-y FREELY, FREELY Freely, freely you have received, freely, freely give. Go in My name and because you believe Others will know that I live. ~ powr are great, And,armed with cru-el hate, On earth is not his e - qual. oth His name, From age to age the same- And He must win the bat - tie. can en - dure, For 10I his doom is sure- One lit - tie word shall fell him. they m~ kill: Gods truth a - bid- eth still- His king-dom is for - ev - er. Jl~ n.... J. \,)) - - It _.r.:i...". - -~J':'\

6 HOMOSEXUALITY 09/19/10 Abomination Gen. 19:1-11 Isaiah 5:20 (2 Tim 3:12) Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. (2 Tim 3:13) But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (Mat 24:37) But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Gen 6:5) And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Gen 6:11) The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. (Gen 6:13) And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (Gen 6:1-2, 4) And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. (Jude 1:6) And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:7) Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (I Kings 12: ) (Exo 32:1-6, 25) (1 Cor 10:7) Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. (2 Ki 23:7) And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. (Deu 23:17) There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. (2 Ki 13:1-2) In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. (Gen 19:5-8) And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. (Gen 4:1) And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. (Gen 4:17) And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. (Gen 4:25) And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew. (Gen 38:16, 26) And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me? And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more. (Judg 11:39) And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel, (1 Sam 1:19) And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her. (Deu 23:17) There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel. (1 Ki 14:24) And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. (1 Ki 15:12) And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. (1 Ki 22:46) And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.

7 (2 Ki 23:7) And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. (Lev 18:22) Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Lev 20:13) If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Judg 19:22) Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. (Rom 1:24, 26, 27) Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. (1 Cor 6:9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (1 Tim 1:9-10) Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine; (Judg 19:22-25) Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him. And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly. Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing. But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go. (Deu 22:5) The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. (1 Cor 6:9) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (1 Cor 11:14-15) Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering. (Exo 22:19) Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. (Lev 18:23) Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. (Lev 20:15) And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast. (Lev 20:16) And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. (Deu 27:21) Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. (Gen 1:28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Gen 2:24-25) Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. (Mark 10:6-9) But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (1 Cor 7:1-5) Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. (Heb 13:4) Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (James 2:10) For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (1 Cor 6:18) Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

8 (Prov 6:16-19) These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. (Gen 19:11) And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. (Rom 1:32) Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (2 Pet 2:4-5) For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; (2 Pet 2:6-8) And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) ABORTION (2 Ki 21:1, 2,6, 9, 16 ) Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. (2 Ki 24:3-4) Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon. (Jer 2:34) Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. (Jer 7:6) If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: (Jer 19:4) Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; (Jer 22:3) Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. (Jer 22:17) But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer 26:15) But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears. (Psa 106:37-38, 40) Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. (Psa 139:14-16) I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. (Micah 6:7) Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? (Deu 30:19) I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (Prov 24:12) If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works? (Exo 21:22-23) If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, (Num 35:30-33) Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.