05/03/2009 – Living Up to Our Family Reputation

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Easter 4
Date: May 3, 2009
Theme: “Living Up to Our Family Reputation”
(Pastor John Hein)

THE ORDER OF WORSHIP: See Bulletin
Liturgy: TLH, p 15 ff (Also available on laminated sheet in pew)

Hymns:
TLH 210: The Strife Is O’er, the Battle Done
WS 785: Children of the Heavenly Father
WS 800: Go, My Children, with My Blessing
TLH 412: May We Thy Precepts, Lord, Fulfill

Scripture Readings:
Acts 4:23-33
John 10:11-18

Sermon Theme:
“Living Up to Our Family Reputation”

1 John 3:1-2, 10-17
(1) Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. (2) Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. ” (10) In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. (11) For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, (12) not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous. (13) Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. (14) We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. (15) Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (16) By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (17) But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? (NKJVTM)

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