06-16-2013 Sunday Evening Bulletin.pub

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The Lord’s Day Evening June 16, 2013 Six O’clock

Welcome and Announcements

Prayer for Illumination Sermon ..................................................................Rev. Norman Bagby Do You Know? Songbook 65 .......................................... O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Prelude

Benediction O God, who hast proven Thy love for mankind by sending us Jesus Christ our Lord, and hast illumined our human life by the radiance of His presence, I give Thee thanks for this Thy greatest gift. For my Lord’s days upon earth; for the record of His deeds of love; for the words He spoke for my guidance and help; for His obedience unto death; for His triumph over death; for the presence of His Spirit with me now: I thank thee, O God. Grant that the remembrance of the blessed Life that once was lived out on this common earth under these ordinary skies may remain with me in all the tasks and duties of this day… Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, I commit all my ways unto Thee. I make over my soul to Thy keeping. I pledge my life to Thy service.. May all my walk and conversation be such as becometh the gospel of Christ. Amen. (A Diary of Private Prayer, John Baillie)

Call to Worship .......................................................... Philippians 2:3-8 Corporate Prayer Praise be to you, O God the Father: You created all things by your power and wisdom and so loved the world that you gave your Son to be our Savior. Praise be to you, O God the Son: You became human like us in all things, except sin, died for our offenses, and rose again for our justification. Praise be to you, O God the Holy Spirit: You lead us into all truth and spread the love of God in our hearts. All praise and glory be to you, O God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

Songbook 8 ................................................................. And Can It Be? Songbook 62 ........................................... Not What My Hands Have Done Reading the Word ............................................................. John 3:14-21

Postlude ************************** When John 3:16 says, God so loved the world that he gave . . . , it means he gave his one and only begotten Son to a world of rebels, serpent bitten, sinful, perishing—and him their only hope. God loved this world.

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There is a God. He has a Son. He loves. And he loves the world.

And the upshot of that for us . . . is powerfully in the word whoever. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes . . . God means for his Son to be lifted up before the world of sinners—all sinners, all kinds of sinners, all degrees of sinners—the way the serpent was lifted up on the pole, because he loves the world. (John Piper) You say, "I have carried the poison of the serpent of sin in my life for a long, long time." Yes, God knows that. He is God. He knows everything about you. You are in worse shape in his eyes than you are in your own. But that didn't stop him. In fact it is precisely the measure of our unworthiness that makes the love of God reach for his Son as the only adequate sacrifice. Do not look at yourself . . . Look to the Son. And to the love of God. And to the promise that whoever believes will never perish but have eternal life.

June 16, 2013 6:00 p.m. Presbyterian Church in America Hattiesburg, Mississippi