Worship Next Sunday
August 18, 2019
Preaching:
Stephen Leavitt
Sermon
Text: Philemon
Sermon
Title: Grace
In Action
Music:
Opening Hymn: (#157) When
Morning Guilds the Skies
Preparation Hymn: (#465) Love
Divine, All Loves Excelling
Response Hymn: (#433) Amazing
Grace
Closing Hymn: (#459) My Hope Is
Built on Nothing Less
Meditation
on God's Law: Father and Mother
Supporting
Passages: Psalm 119:25-32,
Romans 2:12-29
Preparation
Guide
Sunday:
Psalm
119:17-24 (Tonight:
Main Text)
Monday:
(NO Daily Worship)
Tuesday:
(NO Daily Worship)
Wednesday:
(NO Daily Worship)
Thursday:
Psalm
119:25-32 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)
Friday:
Romans 2:12-29 (Next Sunday: NT Reading)
Saturday:
Philemon (Next Sunday: Main Text)
Meditating
on the Scriptures Together
Morning:
Philemon
[1] Paul, a prisoner
for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,
To Philemon our
beloved fellow worker [2] and Apphia our sister and Archippus our
fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
[3] Grace to you and
peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
[4] I thank my God
always when I remember you in my prayers, [5] because I hear of your
love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all
the saints, [6] and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become
effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us
for the sake of Christ. [7] For I have derived much joy and comfort
from your love, my brother, because the hearts of the saints have
been refreshed through you.
[8] Accordingly,
though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is
required, [9] yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you—I,
Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—[10] I
appeal to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I became in my
imprisonment. [11] (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is
indeed useful to you and to me.) [12] I am sending him back to you,
sending my very heart. [13] I would have been glad to keep him with
me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my
imprisonment for the gospel, [14] but I preferred to do nothing
without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by
compulsion but of your own accord. [15] For this perhaps is why he
was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back
forever, [16] no longer as a bondservant but more than a bondservant,
as a beloved brother—especially to me, but how much more to you,
both in the flesh and in the Lord.
[17] So if you
consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me. [18]
If he has wronged you at all, or owes you anything, charge that to my
account. [19] I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay
it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self. [20] Yes,
brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart
in Christ.
[21] Confident of
your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more
than I say. [22] At the same time, prepare a guest room for me, for I
am hoping that through your prayers I will be graciously given to
you.
[23] Epaphras, my
fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you, [24] and so
do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.
[25] The grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Evening:
Psalm 119:25-32
“The God Who Does
Not Leave Us Stranded” or
“The Encouraging
Word” – Stephen Leavitt Preaching
