The Legacy of Providence

ORDER OF WORSHIP:

Welcome
Song of Praise “Come People Of The Risen King”
Call to Worship Psalm 20:1-7
Song of Praise “O Father You Are Sovereign”
Confession of Faith 1 Timothy 6:15b-16
Song of Praise “Living Hope”
Prayer of Adoration
Greet One Another
Reception of New Members Caila Dougherty
Ministry Spotlight Anniversary Weekend
Prayer of Intercession
Giving of God’s Tithe and Our Offerings
Song of Preparation “Come Thou Fount”
Scripture Reading Ruth 4:1-12
Sermon “Tracing God’s Providence: The Legacy Of God’s Providence”
Prayer of Commitment
Song of Response “Jesus Thank You”
Benediction 

SERMON NOTES:

Abraham Lincoln:

“I stood there holding the book and looking up toward the heavens. There came a deep impression on me that God had something for me to do and He was showing me now that I had to get ready for it. Why this miracle otherwise?”

Martin Luther:

“God’s wonderful works which happen daily are lightly esteemed, not because they are of no import but because they happen so constantly and without interruption. Man is used to the miracle that God rules the world and upholds all creation, and because things daily run their appointed course, it seems insignificant, and no man thinks it worth his while to meditate upon it and to regard it as God’s wonderful work, and yet it is a greater wonder than that Christ fed five thousand men with five loaves and made wine from water.”

George Harrison:

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”

1. OUR  IS GIVEN 

Ruth 4: 13-17

Commentator:

“In trying to protect his future, his name, his fame and his fortune, he remains nameless forever.”

C. S. Lewis:

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.”

2. OUR  HAS BEEN REDEEMED

Michael W. Smith:

“I’m looking for a reason roaming through the night to find my place in this world, my place in this world.

Not a lot to lean on, I need your light to help me find my place in this world, my place in this world.”

Psalm 109:13

John 12:24-25

C. S. Lewis:

“And as he spoke, he no longer looked to them like a lion, but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and title page. Now at last they were beginning chapter one of the Great Story which no one on earth has read, which goes on forever; in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

3. A  IS 

Ruth 4:18-2

Ephesians 5:25

Members of Binumarien tribe:

“Why didn’t you tell us all this before?No one bothers to right down the ancestors of spirit beings. It’s only real people, who record the genealogical table, Jesus must be a real person,’ someone else cried, his voice ringing with astonishment. Then everyone seemed to be talking at once. ‘Fourteen generations. That’s two hands and a foot from Abraham to King David. Too more hands and a foot from the time of the calibus; the captivity, and another two hands and a foot until Jesus’ time. That’s a very, very long time. This ancestry goes back further than ours! Yes, none of ours goes back two hands and a foot three times! Jesus must have been a real man on this earth then. This is not just white man’s magic. What the mission has taught us is real. Yes, real.”

Saint Augustine:

“Let all the faithful listen and mark this; let them realize where they are, they are in the desert sighing for their homeland. I struggle every day.”

Bobby Bowden Hall of Fame Poem:

“To have your name up there, is greater yet by far, than all the hall of fames down here, and every man made star. This crowd on earth, they soon forget the heroes of the past, they cheer like mad until you fall, that’s how long you will last. I tell you friend, I would not trade my name however small, if written there beyond the stars in that celestial hall. For any famous name on earth a glory that they share, I’d rather be an unknown here and have my name up there.”