Welcome to Worship May 8, 2016

Clicker Check: What are you going to do for your mother today? a) Nothing (I’m a terrible child.) b) Remember her (She’s with the LORD.) c) Call her (She lives far away.) d) Cook for her (wash dishes too) e) Take her out to eat (I’m a bad cook.)

We have been talking about a Mulberry Grove shirt. They would range about $$. What are your thoughts? Here are two examples.

A) Front 1, back 1 B) Front 1, back 2 C) Front 2, back 1 D) Front 2, back 2

A) Red/purple B) Blue C) Neither D) Both

A) No, do not order me any. B) Yes, order me 1 C) Yes please, order me 2 D) YES, YES, YES, we should order a bunch. That is all I want to wear…

Happy Mother’s Day!

a) 1714 b) 1814 c) 1914 d) 2014 e) Since the dawn of time

In 1914 Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation creating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis who started Mother's Day celebrations also filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop the over- commercialization of Mother's Day.

a) 9 b) 19 c) 29 d) 39 e) 69

The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev ( ) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.

a) January b) March c) May d) August e) December

August

a) Eve (mother of all) b) Naamah (Noah’s wife, also mother/mother-in-law of all) c) Mary (Jesus’ mom) d) Sarah (Abraham’s wife) e) Your Mom

Luke 1:28 And having come in, the angel said to her (Mary), “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!

a) Ruth b) Rebecca c) Rachel d) Olivia e) Jezebel

Olivia

Will it really last forever?

Are you prepared to give an account for the hope that lies within you? a) Not at all, don’t ask me please. b) I could, as long as it was anonymous. c) Yes, but I’m not excited about it. d) I’m sure I would do well. e) I dare you to ask me. I want you to.

How often do you share your faith? A) Never B) Seldom-Never C) Not as much as I should D) Better than most, but could still improve E) I make the apostle Paul look timid

Is there really any assurance?

a) Church Membership b) Baptism c) Sinner’s Prayer d) Grace e) Hope

Matt 7:21-23 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

The purpose of Baptism is to proclaim that you are a believer. If you are proclaiming, then you already are. If this is a requirement, then we are putting the cart before the horse. There are biblical examples of people not baptized who will be in heaven. Also, it is possible that we go through the motions of Baptism without actually being authentic or believing.

Are you sure you prayed correctly? Are you sure you really meant it? What happens when you cannot remember clearly how you felt or were sincere enough? What happens when you no longer “feel” the same feeling that you had that day?

We use the word hope differently than the Bible does. We say hope to describe desire, not necessarily assurance. When the Bible talks about the “hope that lies within us”, it does not mean that it is a fairy tale desire.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

If we have done nothing to earn it, then we can do nothing to lose it. If God is in charge of salvation and security, is he really doing a good job if it can be lost?

What does eternal security have to do with evangelism?

That being said: Philippians 2:12-13 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Ask someone (preferably someone older and wiser) how they know they are born again believers. Be prepared to respond if/when someone asks you.