Subject: Man
Scriptural selection:
II Cor 6:1,4,6,7,14,16-18
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
II Cor 5:1 we know,2,4-6,8,16,17,20
1 we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Benediction:
Zech 14:9 the Lord,11
9 the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymns 93, 304, 370
Solo:
"Make Me a Channel for Your Peace"
(Prayer of St. Francis)
Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring Your love,
Where there is injury, Your pardon, Lord,
And where there's doubt, true faith in You.
Make me a channel of Your peace.
Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness only light,
And where there's sadness, ever joy.
Oh Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console.
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved, as to love, with all my soul.
Make me a channel of Your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we're born to eternal life
Words by Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
Music by Sebastian Temple (1928-1997)
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