Sunday Scriptural Selection & Benediction

December 13, 2009

Subject: God the preserver of man

 

 

Scriptural selection:

(1)  Mark 13:5,11,24-27,31-37

5  And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:

11  But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

24  ¶ But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

25  And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

26  And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

27  And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

31  Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

32  ¶ But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

33  Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

34  For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

35  Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

36  Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

37  And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

 

(2)  Mark 11:22-24 Have

22  Have faith in God.

23  For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

24  Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

 

 

Benediction:        

I Thess 3:12 the,13 (to 2nd ,)

12  the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

13  To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father

 

 

From the Christian Science Hymnal:

Hymn 12: "Arise ye people, take your stand, Cast out your idols from the land"

Hymn 254: "O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind There sweeps a strain"

Hymn 158: "It came upon the midnight clear, That Glorious song of old"

 

 

Solo:

"How beautiful are the feet," from The Messiah by George Frederic Handel.