Don’t Forget: Pew 5:45 –Elders/Deacons meeting

Punctuate: 1)to insert a mark or marks 2)to break in on 3)to emphasize

Question marks are good… …when they signify a search –“doubt”—to be undecided –“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted” –I Thessalonians 5:21—“prove”=verify –Acts 17:11—the Bereans questioned Paul

Question marks are good… …when they precede the truth –John 14:5 …Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? –John 20:27-28 …And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God –Psalm 10, 22, 42, 43, 74, 80, 88—“Why?”

Our lives need exclamation points Excitement about the Gospel: –Romans 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! –Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Our lives need exclamation points Excitement about threats to the Gospel: –Matthew 11:21 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. –Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

Our lives need exclamation points Excitement about life: –Song of Solomon: 5 exclamation points –Psalms: 32 exclamation points

Our lives should have ellipses Ellipsis: a) the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood; b) a sudden leap from one topic to another –The mark indicates that the sentence is not over

Our lives should have ellipses Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Revelation 22:20-21 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

Our lives should have ellipses Romans 8:24-25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Our dash is the most important II Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

How is your life punctuated?

Consider During the Lord’s Supper: Philippians 2:5-8 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.