Sunday Scriptural Selection & Benediction
July 5, 2009
Subject: God
Scriptural selection:
(1) Eph 1:3,4,8
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
(2) Eph 2:4 God,5 hath (to 2nd ,),8,10,19-22
4 God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 hath quickened us together with Christ,
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
21 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
(3) Eph 4:4-6,7 unto,17,18,20,22-24
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7 unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
20 But ye have not so learned Christ;
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
(4) Eph 5:1,8 now
1 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
8 now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Benediction:
Deut 31:6 the
6 the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymn 48: "Dear Father-Mother, Thou dost grant All good and perfect gifts to me"
Hymn 371: "We lift our hearts in praise, O God ot Life, to Thee”
Hymn 438: "Father, we Thy loving children Lift our hearts in joy today”
Solo:
"Why art thou cast down, my soul." Words from the Psalms, and music by Felix Mendelssohn.
