May 10 Worship Service
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Sermon: Faith of the Flawed and Afflicted (Hebrews 11:32-40)
Reflection: John 1:16-17
YouVersion Notes: http://bible.com/events/11989550
ORDER OF WORSHIP
- Pre-Service Announcements & Connection Time (2m)
- OPENING: Welcome & Reflection (1m)
- SONG: Crown Him With Many Crowns (4m)
- READING: Hebrews 11:32-40 (1m)
- SONG: Blessed Assurance (4m)
- SERMON: Faith of the Flawed and Afflicted / Hebrews 11:32-40 (18m)
- FINAL SONG: For The Beauty of the Earth (3m)
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SERMON NOTES
FAITH of the FLAWED (vv 32-34)
- Gideon: (Judg. 6:11–40)
- Barak: (Judg. 4:6–8)
- Samson: (Judg. 14:1–4, 8–9, 19–20; 15:1–8; 16:1–17)
- Jepthah: (Judg. 11:29–40)
- David: (1 Sam. 17:45; 2 Samuel 11–18)
- Samuel: (1 Sam. 2:12–17, 22–36; 8:1–4)
In spite of all this...the writer/preacher does not remember them for their flaws. He commends them for their faith.
If they could act in faith and see God work, so could the sermon-letter’s first hearers, some of whom had “drooping hands” and “weak knees” (Heb. 12:12–13)— so can we in our trials and frailty.
FAITH of the AFFLICTED (v35-40)
The author is not calling us to die as they did, but he is calling us to trust in the Lord as they did—even if that means suffering a death like theirs.
Voice of the Martyrs’ site: Persecution.com. It would do all of us well to read one Martyr’s story per week.
"Both their testimony to God’s faithfulness and his testimony to their faith challenge our self-centered and frivolous conceptions of faith, calling us instead to lifelong endurance, with our eyes fixed steadfastly on Jesus and our hearts resolved to follow him to the end, by the grace he supplies." -Dennis Johnson
FINAL THOUGHT:
ARE YOU TOO FLAWED FOR GOD? NO!
ARE YOU TOO AFFLICTED FOR GOD? NO!
"And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” - Mark 2:17