The First Baptist Evangel

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1 The First Baptist Evangel May 27, 2018 Trinity Sunday 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.) Today s Assurance of Pardon and God s Will for Our Lives are from New Living Translation, Second Edition (NLT-SE) Holy Bible, New Living Translation copyright 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton Illinois All rights reserved. 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 No Handbell practice until further notice. The Troup Baptist Association is collecting items for the Annual Trailer Loading event for the Georgia Baptist Children s Home. We need your participation. See page 12 for more details. VBS has been set for July 16 th - 20 th. We are collecting funds to help with this years meals and supplies, and we need volunteers. Also, please invite children you know to join in! For more information, see page 12. 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: Karen Hill June 10: Dianne Hester PEW Ministry Leaders Today: Jerri & Donny Bolton Next Sunday: Jeri Smith & Payem Suleman June 10: Ann Kerr & Janice Dallas Offertory Prayer Leader Today: Robert Groover Next Sunday: Dantz Frazer June 10: Chuck Smith Sunday, May 27 th 9:30 Worship 10:45 Sunday School 11:30 Choir practice Monday, May 28 th Church Office Closed Sunday, June 3 rd 9:30 Worship 10:45 Sunday School 11:30 Choir Practice George Hester is responsible for the opening and closing of the church during the month of May followed by Robert Groover in June. 2

5 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. Psalm 20:7 3

6 Celebrating the Presence and Love of God in Worship May 27, 2018 Trinity Sunday 9:30 AM PRELUDE RANDALL SMITH For your meditation: And the LORD said to Joshua, Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. Joshua 5:9 THE CHIMING OF THE HOUR PREPARING FOR WORSHIP ENTERING INTO GOD S PRESENCE CALL TO WORSHIP Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness. HYMN OF PRAISE (#54) INVOCATION Great Is Thy Faithfulness HANDBELLS SUSAN GROOVER Psalm 29:1 2 FAITHFULNESS TOM TUCKER GREETING THE ASSEMBLY OF THE SAINTS ANN ADAMS To those who are elect exiles according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. from 1 Peter 1:1 2 The Lord be with you. And also with you. Let us greet one another in the Lord. SONG OF PRAISE PSALM Jehovah Jireh/I Will Celebrate Psalm 64 TO THE CHOIRMASTER. A PSALM OF DAVID. 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; JERRI BOLTON 4

7 preserve my life from dread of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, 3 who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, 4 shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear. 5 They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, Who can see them? 6 They search out injustice, saying, We have accomplished a diligent search. For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep. 7 But God shoots his arrow at them; they are wounded suddenly. 8 They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads. 9 Then all mankind fears; they tell what God has brought about and ponder what he has done. 10 Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult! This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. HYMN PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy Spirit GETTY & TOWNEND LINDA COMBS ASSURANCE OF PARDON TOM TUCKER Now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. Romans 8:1 2 GOD S WILL FOR OUR LIVES ANN ADAMS Dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sinful 5

8 nature, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. Romans 8:12 14 OFFERTORY HYMN (#16) LYONS O Worship the King OFFERTORY PRAYER OFFERTORY SUSAN GROOVER 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 THE OLD TESTAMENT LESSON TOM TUCKER JOE DOWNS Judges 1:1 2:5 1 After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them? 2 The LORD said, Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand. 3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you. So Simeon went with him. 4 Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek. 5 They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. 7 And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. 8 And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire. 9 And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland. 10 And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai. 6

9 11 From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher. 12 And Caleb said, He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife. 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife. 14 When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want? 15 She said to him, Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 16 And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people. 17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah. 18 Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory. 19 And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron. 20 And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it the three sons of Anak. 21 But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. 22 The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them. 23 And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.) 24 And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you. 25 And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go. 26 And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day. 27 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land. 28 When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely. 29 And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them. 7

10 30 Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor. 31 Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob, 32 so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out. 33 Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them. 34 The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain. 35 The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor. 36 And the border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward. 2 1 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, I will never break my covenant with you, 2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? 3 So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you. 4 As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept. 5 And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the LORD. EPISTLE LESSON TOM TUCKER Luke 9: As they were going along the road, someone said to him, I will follow you wherever you go. 58 And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. 59 To another he said, Follow me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and bury my father. 60 And Jesus said to him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God. 61 Yet another said, I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home. 62 Jesus said to him, No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. 8

11 SERMON Half-hearted Faith MEDITATION ON THE WORD PROCLAIMED TOM TUCKER AFFIRMATION OF FAITH PHOEBE GRABEN & 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; 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 (#378) CASSELL DEPARTING TO SERVE Christian Hearts, in Love United OPPORTUNITIES FOR DISCIPLESHIP AND REACHING OUT PHOEBE GRABEN Bring items for Trailer Loading event for Children s Home. Remember our offering for VBS and need for helpers. 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. 9

12 THE CHARGE TOM TUCKER And he said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37 BENEDICTION TOM TUCKER The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14 POSTLUDE RANDALL SMITH The pastor is available after the service at the front of the sanctuary for anyone who would like to talk more about today s message, learn about faith in Christ, or for prayer. You may also make an appointment by calling the church office at or ing him directly at tucker@fbcwestpoint.com. 10

13 Nourishing Persons in Faith and Discipleship Caring for One Another As you intercede for others this week please lift up these particular concerns from here in our own congregation. Mildred Shaver Margaret Breedlove Margaret Bartlett Mary Clark Richard & Pat Kemp George Hester Justin Graben Roger Hales Jackie Jones Randall Smith Vi Hudmon Howard & Suzanne Bryan Johnie & Debra Johnson Family of Beverly Boehm Marc & Catherine Curry Chuck, Noelle & Elliott Peek Althea Head Jana Lanham Callie Adams Prayer for the Week Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86:11, NIV 11

14 Reaching Out with Christ s Unconditional Love The Troup Baptist Association is collecting: sugar, cooking oil, salt/pepper, bottled water, canned fruit, styrofoam plates/bowls, plastic forks/spoons for the annual Trailer Loading event for Baptist Children s Home. Gift cards are also appreciated! The collection dates are in June. Please bring items to the church as soon as possible. Children s Camp Rockridge 2018 will be June 18 th - 21 st this year. Boys and girls ages 8 through rising 6 th graders are welcome. Cost is $170 per child and $195 for late registrations received after June 10 th. Limited scholarships are available. If interested, please call the church office for online registration information or to request applications. VBS is set for July 16 th - 20 th from 5:30 to 8:00 each night. Our theme this year is GAME ON (Gearing up for life s big game)! VBS will be for upcoming PreK - 12 th grade students. Please invite children from these age groups to join us in this exciting adventure! 12

15 The Bulletin Board Upcoming Events: July 16th - 20th: VBS June Birthdays 3 Kazeban Suleman Gardi 7 Suzanne Bryan 9 Jessica Bolton 9 Dawson Hollingsworth 10 Austin Graben 16 Emma Dallas 16 Will Downs 21 Richard Kemp IV 23 Chad Dallas 25 Stephanie McLain 25 Abigail McLain 30 Faith Graben 13

16 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