Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

I John 2:1-6 Advocacy of Christ How we know God/are known by God

I John 2:7-11 The new old commandment John 13:34 New – authority and clarity Old – revelation and understanding

I John 2:12-14 Children, Young Men & Fathers Maturity: Spiritually Young Spiritually Strong Spiritually Grown

I John 2:15-17 Worldliness Temptation of Eve Temptation of Christ

I John 2:18-23 The Falling Away The Last Hour Matthew 24 I Timothy 4

Welcome! Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

Sunday AM Sunday PM Wednesday Serving Sunday AM Sunday PM Wednesday Usher Chad Farris Opening Prayer Lamar McDonald Curt Davis Opening/Head Ryan Sollars Communion Grant Haines Michael Hetzer Song Leader Barry Root Rob Wade Announcement Chris Willis Adult Class Lesson 9 Brian Haines Invitation

Psalm 29:2 Give unto Jehovah the glory due to His name; Worship Jehovah in the beauty of holiness. Hymns Invitation -

A City of Refuge Numbers 35:6-25

A Terrible Tragedy Liability: an eye for an eye No insurance? No hope? The I-40 bridge disaster was a bridge collapse that occurred southeast of Webbers Falls, Oklahoma at 7:45 a.m. on May 26, 2002. Joe Dedmon, captain of the towboat Robert Y. Love, experienced a blackout and lost control of the tow. This, in turn, caused the barges he was controlling to collide with a bridge pier. The result was a 580-foot (176.78 m) section of the Interstate 40 bridge plunging into Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas River. Fourteen people died and eleven others were injured when several automobiles and tractor trailers fell from the bridge.

A Lesson from Israel The Safe Haven: Numbers 35:6-25 The Blood Avenger Advent of the High Priest Safe so long as you remain

A Divine Foreshadow Isaiah 4:2-6

The Church as a City Hebrews 12:22-23 : But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

The Church as a Refuge Hebrews 6:18 : That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

The Church as a City of Refuge The City of Refuge speaks to the church A place were safety is found How do we fit this image?

The Church as a City of Refuge Luke 15:11-32 Can the sinner come for sanctuary? Can the lost sheep come home? Can the wanderer find safety?

Submit to God "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.” Mark 16:16