Bayshore Gardens Community Church Believing, Again Gaining Hope Caring Relationships Christ Jesus

WE EXTEND A WARM WELCOME TO MEMBERS, REGULAR ATTENDERS, and THOSE VISITING TODAY. If you are visiting with us, we welcome you to our church! You are no longer a stranger for you are with the people of God.

THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD so that we may celebrate your WE INVITE YOU TO SIGN THE WHITE ATTENDANCE PAD so that we may celebrate your presence with us today! Please pass it on to the next person and then back down the row

and Read the Announcements for fellowship and service Please Take Your Bulletins Home With You and Read the Announcements We invite you to take advantage of the Opportunities for fellowship and service

PASTOR DUSTIN SEDLAK will be conducting our worship service (our new Minister Under Contract) will be conducting our worship service NEXT SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23 so you can meet him. We expect he will begin his ministry here on November 27th

“THE GREAT REVERSAL: THE LAST TODAY: “THE GREAT REVERSAL: THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST” Rev. Dr. Daniel Herlein Matthew 20:1-16

Bayshore Gardens Community Church Believing, Again Gaining Hope Caring Relationships Christ Jesus

[ Pastor / CONGREGATION ] THE CALL TO WORSHIP (Psalm 27:1,4,5) [ Pastor / CONGREGATION ] The Lord is my light and my salvation! WHOM SHALL I FEAR? The Lord is the strength of my life! OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID? One thing I ask of the Lord; THIS IS WHAT I SEEK:

that I may dwell in the house of the Lord ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE; to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord, AND TO SEEK HIM IN HIS TEMPLE. For in the day of trouble HE WILL KEEP ME SAFE IN HIS DWELLING He will hide me in the shelter of His tabernacle AND SET ME HIGH UPON A ROCK.

‘AND CAN IT BE THAT I SHOULD GAIN’ **THE OPENING HYMN #348   ‘AND CAN IT BE THAT I SHOULD GAIN’ (Verses 1,3,5)

And can it be that I should gain (1) an interest in the Savior’s blood? Died He for me who caused His pain? For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be that You, my God, should die for me. that You, my God, would die for me.

He left His Father’s throne above, (2) So free, so infinite His grace Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam’s helpless race Tis mercy all, immense and free; For, O my God, it found out me. Amazing love! How can it be that You, my God, would die for me.

No condemnation now I dread; (3) Jesus, and all in Him, is mine! Alive in Him, my living Lord, And clothed in righteousness divine, Bold I approach the-eternal throne, And claim the crown, through Christ my own. Amazing love! How can it be that You, my God, would die for me.

THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON SILENT PRAYERS OF THANKSGIVING AND CONFESSION THE ASSURANCE OF PARDON Nehemiah 9:17b You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love.

THE SONG OF RESPONSE #739 WHY DO I SING ABOUT JESUS?

(1) Deep in my heart there’s a gladness; Jesus has saved me from sin! Praise to His name, what a Savior! Cleansing without and within! Why do I sing about Jesus? Why is He precious to me? He is my Lord and my Savior, Dying, He set me free!

(2) Only a glimpse of His goodness, That was sufficient for me. Only one look at the Savior; Then was my spirit set free. Why do I sing about Jesus? Why is He precious to me? He is my Lord and my Savior, Dying, He set me free!

(3) He is the fairest of fair ones; He is the Lily, the Rose. Rivers of mercy surround Him; Grace, love and pity He shows. Why do I sing about Jesus? Why is He precious to me? He is my Lord and my Savior, Dying, He set me free!

A TIME OF SHARING WITH GOD’S CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

THE HOLY SCRIPTURE Matthew 20:1-16 Read by Ron VanDyke For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and then sent them into his vineyard. About the third hour the landowner went out and saw others standing in the market-place doing nothing. He told them, “You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.” So they went.

Then the landowner went out again about the sixth hour, and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around in the marketplace. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?” “Because no one has hired us,” they answered. Then the landowner said to them, “You also go and work in my vineyard.” When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first ones hired.”

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came first and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received their wage of one denarius, they began to grumble against the landowner: “These men who were hired last worked only one hour and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.” But the landowner answered one of them, “Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go.

SO THE LAST WILL BE FIRST, AND THE FIRST WILL BE LAST. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?” SO THE LAST WILL BE FIRST, AND THE FIRST WILL BE LAST.

THE SONG OF PREPARATION #564

(1) I am weak but Thou art strong; Jesus, keep me from all wrong; I'll be satisfied as long As I walk, let me walk close to Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.

(2) Thro' this world of toil and snares, If I falter, Lord, who cares? Who with me my burden shares? None but Thee, dear Lord, None but Thee. Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.

(3) When my feeble life is o'er, Time for me will be no more; Guide me gently, safely o'er To Thy kingdom shore, to Thy shore. Just a closer walk with Thee, Grant it, Jesus, is my plea, Daily walking close to Thee, Let it be, dear Lord, let it be.

Please see the Sermon Outline THE GREAT REVERSAL: THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST Matthew 20:1-16 Rev. Dr. Daniel Herlein Please see the Sermon Outline

The LANDOWNER The WORKERS The VINEYARD symbolizes GOD The WORKERS symbolizes US The VINEYARD symbolizes wherever it is that God has called us to serve Him

THE JEWISH WORK DAY: 6AM TO 6PM The Landowner instructed his foreman to have all the workers line up for their pay FIRST: Those hired LAST at 5:00 PM NEXT: Those hired at 3:00 PM, 12 NOON, 9:00 AM LAST: Those who were hired FIRST early that morning – 6:00 AM

and supreme in all things. THE FIRST POINT God is absolutely and totally SOVEREIGN and supreme in all things.

ISAIAH 55:8-9 “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

God has chosen to give us THE SECOND POINT God has chosen to give us some measure of CHOICE for which we are held accountable and responsible.

God is much more concerned about our and HEART-FELT MOTIVES THE THIRD POINT God is much more concerned about our INNER ATTITUDES and HEART-FELT MOTIVES than in the “volume” we accomplish.

and yet Who, to give us that which we do not deserve. Jesus tells us in this parable about a sovereign God who OWES US NOTHING, and yet Who, at the same time, CHOOSES to give us that which we do not deserve. [Grace]

Location! Location! Location! THE FOURTH POINT God’s ‘Vineyard’ is located wherever it is it that God has called each one of us to do His work. Location! Location! Location!

temporal value system. THE LAST WILL BE FIRST, AND THE FIRST WILL BE LAST. We could call this THE GREAT REVERSAL God’s eternal value system is far different than our temporal value system. (See 1 Samuel 16:7)

The Pastoral Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer 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 FOREVER AMEN.

As A Tangible Expression To Financially Support OUR OFFERING As A Tangible Expression Of Our Gratitude To God, We Joyfully Offer Our Monetary Gifts To Financially Support God's Work At Bayshore Gardens Community Church

OFFERTORY MUSIC HERE I AM, LORD Harriet Hoeksema

THE DOXOLOGY PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW; PRAISE HIM ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW; PRAISE HIM ABOVE YE HEAVENLY HOST; PRAISE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST. AMEN

#746 ‘He Keeps Me Singing’

There’s within my heart a melody, Jesus whispers sweet and low, “Fear not, I am with thee, Peace Be Still,” In all of life’s ebb and flow. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know. Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go.

All my life was wrecked by sin and strife, Discord filled my heart with pain. Jesus swept across the broken strings, Stirred the slumbering chords again. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know. Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go.

Feasting on the riches of His grace, Resting ‘neath His sheltering wing, Always looking on His smiling face, That is why I shout and sing. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know. Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go.

Soon He’s coming back to welcome me Far beyond the starry sky; I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown, I shall reign with Him on high. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know. Fills my every longing, Keeps me singing as I go.

THE PASTORAL BENEDICTION Go forth from this place as God’s elect and covenant people . . . AMEN