WORSHIP SCHEDULE

                          Outline of Sermons 

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               Sunday Morning Lesson: 10/12/25, I Cor 11:23-30

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On the first day of the week, the disciples came together to break bread. According to Acts 20:7 every first day of the week, the disciples came together for the table. Where are God’s people? They are assembled at a place with a table of the Lord for the breaking of bread. Every time that first time of week came along, they assembled as such. They got it from the Lord. Do church like Jesus said to do it.

For many churches on Sunday, the table is just not there. There is a table in our assembly because:

1. A directive of the Lord

2. Delivered to the church

3. Designation of the bread and the cup

4. Declares his death until he returns

5. Discipline that comes from within

6. Discernment that values the Lord in participation

7. Damnation: To participate in the meal with a careless attitude for it brings a response from the Lord. He might take action against you.

 

1. There’s a table in the assembly directed by the Lord. “I have received of the Lord . . .” assembly and gathering was not left up to the disciples. It came from the Lord, never losing sight of his death on the cross and suffering. Never losing sight of what the cross means to us.

On the Lord’s Day, we should not assemble without remembering the Lord’s death. His death is to be appropriated throughout our life – no allegiance to someone else’s death. His death will allow the wiping away of all our tears. Assembling on the first day of the week comes from heaven.  

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2. There is a table delivered to the people of the Lord (instructions from the Lord). Where there’s no table, it’s not God’s people. We participate because it empowers us to live within the covenant of the Lord, delivered to the Church of Christ. If no table, what have you assembled to? It is offensive for one to honor / worship the Lord God and not worship / appreciate the Son. You have to have them both or none at all (John 5:21).

It’s a declaration of the death of Christ, coming to declare his death. It means so much to us. God planned death to bring us to life. Put to death the works of the flesh, thus coming to life in Jesus Christ. Life is not our own but he who lives in us (me). Keep ourselves dead in us (me). The table declares the death of Christ until he comes. In every assembly, there is a table that declares his death and a declaration of life until he comes. We are the people of death, taking the bread and drinking the cup, It is a declaration until he comes again. Don’t be silent. We are telling the world that he is coming again.

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3.  Death is the table – a discernment. When we (the Church of Christ) eat at this table, we are concerned about what we do. “Let a man examine himself, so let him eat / drink of the bread and the cup.” Look at yourself. The Lord demands we look at ourselves from the inside. Don’t eat this meal without consideration of others; share that meal with him, creating discernment. When we share in this meal, we can stand outside of ourselves, examine and see if we’ve gone too far. We don’t want to be condemned by looking like the world. This earth has cultured us to be insensitive. We need to get it right with the Lord and your brother. Get it right before you take of it (the table). You must value everything in relationship to it. Think about someone else, the sacrifices you have to make, the suffering you have to do, The sanctification of the Lord comes to surface during this meal. Keep the meal. Keep the suffering of the Lord. He is the centerpiece of our life – the Son of God.

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4.  He died and rose again and is coming back. If you worship at an assembly without a table, you’re worshiping someone else. Who said once-a-month or once-a-year to take the meal, the Lord’s Supper? The table is the meal that you don’t want to miss.

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5.  Examine yourself.

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6. Value everything that you participate in – your time at the table. Change a life by a table, valuing your brother who needs a meal.

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7. Damnation: To participate in the meal with a careless attitude for it brings a response from the Lord. He might take action against you.

 

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            Sunday Morning Lesson: 10/19/25, I Pet 1:13-16

                      How to be Holy in a Hostile World  

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God wants us to be holy people. Jesus has changed our hostility into holiness. True holiness is not how you look but how you live, having the right feelings.

1--To be holy is to have the right concerns about God’s concerns. Grid up your loins and learn how to think straight. Be war-minded against sin / evil. Ephesians 6 presents scripture about ‘having war clothes on to fight against the demons.’ To prepare your mind for action, pick up the spiritual activities. Learn to fight how God fights. Go to war with who our God is warring with. We live in a numb culture. Stimulation brings therapy to our body. We can’t separate stimulation from salvation. Allow the things that save you to stimulate you. People are more concerned about their rights than God’s righteousness. What’s alright with you is not always right with God. Many people please self than the Savior. Grace doesn’t give us the right to walk in sin, but to go to war against sin and evil. Grace allows us to fight. We must go to war against sin.

The doctrine of Christ teaches us to live a selfless life and to be sober in spirit, staying conscious with the right spiritual attitude. Don’t let your conscience die or lose it, thus losing all sensitivity to sin. When you lose your consciousness, you turn to darkness. God wants us to feel what He feels. He cares about what you do, and He is angry about sin. If you don’t live the truth and the teachings of Christ, you won’t think right, not having the right mind. Stay in your right mind. Christ went to the cross to give you the right frame of mind.

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2 -- To be holy is to reject the conformity of this culture. Don’t go back to the life that Jesus saved us from. Mark 8:36 states “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”  Suffering is our preparation to go home. We are strangers in this world, temporarily here. God has made us a house. We are Christ’s house / the right house. Even in the house, we suffer because he’s saving us, transforming us. According to Heb 11:25, Moses chose “rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.” If Moses turned down the world, so can we. Can Jesus turn your trauma into healing? Don’t let anyone hold you back, not even your parents. Suffering is how we live the doctrine. The Lord is killing these old desires. Let God allow you to go through that purification process.

Our worship only belongs to God alone. I Pet 1:14: states “As obedient children (those who have been born again complying with the covenant, the gospel message) not fashioning yourselves to the former lusts . . . ” The doctrine of Christ transforms us into that holy person that God wants. God makes us brand new. Don’t let your suffering be in vain; God is transforming you. Suffering is the victory, keeping you going, rejecting the world. Allow God to keep you in the right mind in your suffering. Rom 12:2 -- “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good, acceptable, and perfect will of God.” 

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3-- Holy people are consecrated people as I Pet 1:15-16 states “. . . be ye holy for I am holy.”  God sets the pattern / standard for holiness. Don’t let your desires control, lead, or consume you. Don’t let hostility be your motivation. Let the message of God teach you to be holy. The Savior who saved you is the standard / our pattern. Lev 20:26 states “And ye shall be holy unto me; for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people that you should be mine.” Our being consecrated is God’s choosing us, setting us apart. Moses set the standard for the people.  

Suffering sets us apart. What belongs to God suffers. We get to be like God in his holiness – transforming and triumphant – so we can stay saved. Let Jesus save you. Don’t let a serpent trick you. Give in only to your Savior. The Lord has to set us apart to keep us holy. Let God make you holy; let God make you new. He is our healer. If he can save us, he can heal us too.   Philippians 4 states that there is a safe place found in God’s peace. God keeps us safe. 

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              Sunday Morning Lesson: 10/26/25, I Cor 2:1-4

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David is not lord over the Lord’s church. He had a heart for God. David desired to please the Lord. We are the instrument of the church. Heb 13:15 states “. . . let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually . . . the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.”  Say the words; the words make sounds. Do what God says to do and not try to please us.

We need to hear a word from the Lord. Preach the word, which builds us up and helps to explain the will and word of God. It helps us to live our lives throughout the week, helping us to cherish our walk with Christ. Preaching helps you, but you need to understand it. Understanding it so plainly that you can’t miss it, not missing what God wants you to do.

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As in I Cor 2:7, which designates that God hid his word long ago, but now makes clear to this generation and church. He makes known what he was going to do with Christ, how he was going to suffer and die for us. The wisdom of God uproots all wisdom / knowledge of man. Our wisdom can never match God’s. God’s wisdom saves us.

What are we doing with our wisdom, which can be evil? God’s wisdom is healing, helping, and saving us. His wisdom is teaching us to live apart from sin so that it won’t control our lives. It is wise to be a Christian. Sin kills us and thus controls us. Through the death of Christ, He delivers us from the reign of sin. The preaching of the cross is how God places us in a relationship with Christ, putting us in the advantage.  Preaching helps us to recognize this advantage -- by baptism with a new relationship to sin. Sin does not reign over us. The blood of Christ cleanses us from all our sin. Preaching reveals Christ and him crucified.

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We can’t say that we have no sin. We can live to the detriment of sin. Allow Christ to rid us of the reign of sin over us. Preaching teaches us to not let sin reign over us, but let the cross reign. It helps set forth the truth and the revelation of the cross to us. 

 

Setting the foundation on which the cross and our salvation stands,

Christ came down and became one of us, sharing in our struggle and humanity. He became a man and dwelled among us. Jesus came to help us, coming to know us. Jesus shared our humanity. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;” He became like us, so he could feel like us. If you get your mind from God, you might feel like God feels (Exod 34:5). God knows how we feel, the foundation on which the cross stands. The power of the cross is his identifying with us (Heb 4:15) “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities . . .” He knows how we feel; and thus, he’s such a savior for us, sitting at the right hand of the Father. He lifts us when we need lifting and gives us strength through our struggles. We share our suffering with him, and he shares his salvation with us. Jesus is saving us through our suffering, and he is still with us through our suffering.

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When you come to preaching, you hear the word separated from what is truth and what is stuff. Some stuff is preached that they know it’s a lie. The preacher ought to be free to tell the truth. Paul said in 2 Cor 4:2, “But have denounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness . . .” Don’t you want to hear the truth? We rightly divide the word of truth (preaching) because it’s a piece of the pie cut right. Our preaching should cut it right – God’s pie (knowing the truth).

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Some in the Church of Christ call themselves ranked with letters. It’s about what is being said, not who said it. Preaching should set forth the truth, but also set the firm foundation upon which the truth stands, separating itself from error. Our Lord and Savior has the highest ranking. Truth ought to be embraced, which changes the mind. Jesus came to give us faith not fight. The difference is in the preaching, to hear the truth set forth, even when it hurts. Christ came to undo the hurt. He makes us well.

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               Psalm/Hymn/Edification of the week:

 

 

 

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. (Eph 5:19)

 

Isa 61:1 -- The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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                         'Tis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus

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                           'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,

                           Just to take Him at his word;

                           Just to rest upon his promise,

                           Just to know, thus saith the Lord.

 

                           Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him

                           How I've proved Him o'er and o'er;

                           Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!

                           O for grace to trust Him more!

 

                          'Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,

                          Just to know he is the Way

                          Just to lean upon his mercies,

                          Just to trust and to him pray.

 

                          Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him

                          How I've proved Him o'er and o'er;

                          Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!

                          O for grace to trust Him more!

                         

 

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