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No one comes to the Father except through Me.
If you really knew Me,
you would know My Father as well.
From now on, you know Him and have seen Him."
John  14: 6-7
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Absolute Truthfulness
By Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The commandment of absolute truthfulness is really only another name for the fullness of discipleship. Only those who follow Jesus and cleave to Him are living
in absolute truthfulness. Such men have nothing to hide from their Lord. He knows them and has placed them in a state where truth prevails. They cannot hide
their sinfulness from Jesus; for they have not revealed themselves to Jesus, but He has revealed Himself to them by calling them to follow Him. At the moment
of their call Jesus showed up their sin and made them aware of it. Absolute truthfulness is possible only when sin has been uncovered, that is to say, where it
has been forgiven by Jesus. Only those who are in a state of truthfulness through the confession of their sin to Jesus are not ashamed to tell the truth
wherever it must be told. The truthfulness which Jesus demands from His followers is the self-abnegation (self belief) which does not hide sin. Nothing is then
hidden, everything is brought forth to the light of day.
In this question of truthfulness, what matters first and last is that a man’s whole condition should be exposed, his whole evil laid bare in the sight of God. But
sinful men do not like this sort of truthfulness, and they resist it with their might. That is why they persecute it and crucify it. It is only because we follow Jesus
that we can be genuinely truthful, for then He reveals to us our sin upon the cross. The cross is God’s truth about us, and therefore it is the only power which
can make us truthful. When we know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.  











Let us now join together to say the creed.

I believe in God, the Father, the Almighty,
The creator of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
Born of the virgin Mary,
Suffered under Pontius Pilate,
Was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
On the third day He rose again from the dead.
He ascended into Heaven,
And sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
From there He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church,
The communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
The resurrection of the body and life everlasting.
Amen.



Intercessory Prayer

Prayer is the way that we talk to God and tell Him our needs. For many people intercessory prayer is a way of life for them. They take our prayers and lift them
up to God asking the Father to let His will be done and to ask in Jesus’ Name. By lifting up these we too are being Intercessors for others. Sometimes life is too
much for us and so we need to come to the Lord and allow His Spirit to hear us, when we do not know what to say. Let us lift up those who have asked for
prayer and lift up our own prayers.

For … Tim & wife & family, Pastor Frieddie & Philippines ministry, Craig, Bill, Pat, Don M., Mike & grandmother, Joanne, Gwen & family-Lister, Tam & daughter,
Keith, Debbie & son, Gail & children, Charlie, Jeanette, Ethel, John & sister Shebaa, Linda & son Tim & wife Hope & unborn child, Joseph & friends, Montie,
Alec’s family & friends, Carmen & Bill, Anthony, Marilyn & Rodger, Noah & Joseph & church in Kenya, Hyma & family, Alice & son, Josh, Mary, Sarah, Johnny,
Rodney, Mohammed, Larry, Naila, Salha, Medina, Derek, Jenna, Tony, Bob, Cathy, Nancy & Dave, Prodigals to come back, Open Heaven Ministries, Knox and
Laurie, Kris & mom, Pegi & Paul & family, Emily & Joseph & family, Home Churches all over the world, for those who kill through abortion, Joanna & Kaledia
Health staff & patients, Sanjeewani, Shiromala & family, Melissa, Tina, Steve, Synder family, Santilley & boss’ newborn grandson,  Vickie, Aoly, Shay, for the
homeless, Claudia & husband, Rev Rick & CASAS ministry & Thailand missions, Aspen & AJ, for the children who suffer from disease or abuse, Callie, Nathan
& Erica, Anna & Craig, Andrea & Jason & Ian, Barbara, Tanya, those suffering from cancer and mental illness, Elaine & Tony, Middle East, for those who have
not come to know the Lord, Israel, Africa, India, United Kingdom, Beth & Eric & unborn daughter, Isaiah, Alliyah, Chrissy & JD, Noah, Ashton, Konner, Henry &
Monica & unborn son & Isaiah, Nora, Scott & Wendy, John & Fran, Mike & family, Becca, Kat, John & Cheryl, Patt and Ron, Kathy & Joe & family, Renee & LA,
Dwight & Brandy & Blake, Sebastian, Kathryn, Suzette, Bobbi, Mike & Erin & family, for all those who loved ones have past on, Donna & family, Mary, Maureen
& daughter Nicole & child, Sterling, Mary, Richard & Janet, Henry & Noreen, this church & ministry, peace, Christians who are persecuted & killed, those who
suffer with abuse, those needing the Lord’s salvation, our troops around the world & their families, for all those who have asked for prayers …  
(Your prayers and petitions)

We thank You Father for hearing our prayers spoken and unspoken. We know that You are the way to life. We believe that by following Your way that when we
ask of You, we will receive; that when we seek, we will find; and when we knock the door will open. So with faith we humbly ask You to answer our prayers. We
humbly ask that You grant our petitions and prayers according to the Father’s Will. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.


Readings

Psalm 95:1-11
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before Him with thanksgiving and extol Him with music and song.
3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods.
4 In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.
5 The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7 for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care.
     Today, if you hear His voice, 8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, [a] as you did that day at Massah [b] in the desert, 9 where your fathers
tested and tried Me, though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways."
11 So I declared on oath in My anger,
     "They shall never enter My rest."

Colossians 3:1-17
1Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things
above, not on earthly things. 3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear
with Him in glory.
5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these,
the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger,
rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on
the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian,
Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
12Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13Bear with
each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14And over all these virtues put on love,
which binds them all together in perfect unity.
15Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you
richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17And
whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Luke 13:22-30
22Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as He made His way to Jerusalem. 23Someone asked Him, "Lord, are only a few people going to
be saved?"
He said to them, 24"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to. 25Once the owner of
the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Sir, open the door for us.'
    "But He will answer, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
26"Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'
27"But He will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from Me, all you evildoers!'
28"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you
yourselves thrown out. 29People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. 30Indeed
there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last."
















Weekly Way

Signs In The Times

“You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father, David. ‘Why do the nations rage and the people plot in vain? The kings of the
earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and His Anointed One.’
Acts 4:25-26

So much has happened in these past few weeks. We are edging closer to a global society. The global rulers gathered this week to talk about the economic
crisis throughout the world. Russia is happy with America’s choice for president as in the Muslims and Hindu’s in India are. Many of the Muslim nations have
expressed their congratulations to our president-elect. These are nations that persecute Christians and kill them. People here in the U.S. are coming out of the
woodwork with hateful things towards our president-elect.  We have homosexuals stomping on a cross, and demonstrating across the country. Our president-
elect is looking at people to run our government who do not profess the values of God. We must pray for this new president and for a change of his heart. We
must pray that the Holy Spirit convicts him of the lies that Satan has been telling him.

We asked for this. We have allowed ourselves to be so consumed with selfishness and envy, idol worship and money worship and forgotten God. We are
raging in vain. We have forgotten to put the Lord first in our lives above all things. These next years are not going to be pretty. It will take a change of heart of
this whole nation, a humbling of our lives, and a return to our God. Jesus said: “Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From
now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three.” (Luke 12:51-52)

We don’t have any fear anymore. We don’t believe that God exists or we think He is powerless and doesn’t care. Jesus said: “Fear him who, after the killing of
the body, has the power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.” (Luke 11:5) But the devil makes things look cool and he lies to you into thinking that
God doesn’t care and that He will not punish people for their sins. We have much to fear if we don’t heed the warnings. We think we have plenty of time to
change, but we don’t. Jesus said: “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have
prepared for yourself?’ This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.” (Luke 12:20)

Are you prepared to stand before God if He comes tonight?

While I was reading the Scriptures this week, something popped out at me. In Acts 2:16-21, Peter is addressing the crowd after receiving the Holy Spirit: “No,
this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: (2:28-36)
       ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old
men will dream dreams. Even on My servants, both men and women, I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the
heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming
of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved.”
We have been in the last days since Christ returned. We forget that to God: For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a
watch in the night. (Psalm 90:4) And in 2 Peter 3:8-9 we are told: But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: with the Lord a day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to
perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

When are the people of the world going to come to repentance? The Gospel is preached to all nations, and yet there are those who rage against God. We
have even had some who have brought lawsuits against God. Do they not realize that it is God that they are raging against?

In 1 John 2:18-19 we are warned: Dear children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have
come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained
with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. Sadly, many of us have prodigals in our families. Do we do anything to show them the way of
the Lord, or are we to afraid to take a stand for the Lord? Have you ever said to a loved one, ‘I love you and don’t want you to die in your sin. I wish you would
not –use the Name of the Lord in vain—commit adultery—live a homosexual lifestyle—murder by aborting your child—have idols in your life—lie—take what
belongs to another—slander— be greedy’: the list goes on and on. We are afraid of being called judgmental and not loving. But it takes great love to confront
someone in their sin. We are always called to love one another, but we must not forget that Jesus came to teach us the way of life, to become like a child and
learn from Him what is righteous and holy. We must repent and teach others to.  

Jesus warns us: “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! (Mark13:32-
33) But we don’t heed the warnings and for some when Christ returns or they die unexpectedly, they will not go to heaven. Jesus warned us that: “The angels
will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:
49-50) Are you willing to be thrown into the fiery furnace of hell, or are you willing to see those you love go to hell?

As Christians we must realize that we are disciples of Jesus and so we must preach the Good News in season and out of season. We must salt our lives with
the righteousness that comes from God. And we must live our lives in the Joy of knowing that our faith, our belief in God, having God’s peace, peace within one’
s self and having peace with those around us. Only then will we understand what Jesus is telling us. It’s a hard life to tell someone living in sin that they are. But
we must show them that only Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and He is the only way to the Father. Jesus made this claim for our salvation: No one, no
religion, no church, no other way but through Jesus. Period.

Our faith will be firm if it is in Jesus Christ. No trial, no storm, not evil the devil can destroy us if we stand firm in Christ.

In our nations so many Christians have rejected the stone that is the capstone for our faith. We have allowed the devil to influence us to believe that if we are
tolerant of other religions we are following Christ! That is a lie, my dear ones! We must follow Christ in order to get to heaven otherwise we will go to hell.

We have to look at the lost sheep and live a life that projects the Good News of Jesus. If we live in sin, then we live in Satan. But if we live a righteous and holy
life, we live in God.

After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the Good News of God. “The time has come,” He said. “The kingdom of God is near: Repent
and believe the Good News.” (Mark 1:14-15)

Have you repented of your sins? Who are the ones around you that you need to preach the Good News to?

The sum of our possessions is not what life is. Where our treasure is, there also is our heart. If God is our treasure, then our heart will be in God and will
respond to the things that are of God. We must stand up for our God and show Him that His sacrifice on the cross was not in vain. We must stop listening to the
lies of Satan and begin again in our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We can’t keep on the way we have been going and not expect that God will not fulfill His
Words in the Scriptures. The end began at the beginning and now it’s the beginning of the end. Christ ended our punishment and began a new way of living,
and now it’s time to be on guard and trust in the Lord for all things in our life. The end of this heaven and earth are coming. The question is: “Will you be
ready?”

Someone asked Him, “Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?”
He said to them, “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.”
Luke 13:23-24

Are you making every effort?












The Lord’s Supper

Whenever two or three are gathered there is God among them. Jesus tells us: “I tell you the truth, whoever hears My Word and believes Him Who sent Me has
eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent. I AM the bread of life.
He who comes to Me will never go hungry, and he who believes in Me will never be thirsty. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you
have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand there praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may
forgive you your sins.” As Your children, Father, teach us and let Your Word become for us, a living part of our lives. Teach us to love one another and to
forgive one another.

Lord have mercy on us, forgive us our sins.
Christ have mercy on us, teach us to forgive others.
Lord show us Your Way, Your Truth, and Your Life.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in
the Name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you and your children. Devote
yourselves to the apostle’s teachings and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  

Father, before us sits bread and wine. Let Your Spirit come and bless this bread and wine and become for us, the body and blood of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ so that we are nourished by Your mercy and grace.

He always loved those who were His own in the world. When the time came for Him to be glorified by You, His heavenly Father, He showed the depth of His love.
As Jesus and His disciples were reclined at the table, He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.”

And while they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, and giving a prayer of thanks to the Father, He broke it and gave it to His disciples, saying, “Take and
eat, this is My body given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

In the same way, He took the cup, again giving thanks to the Father and offered it to them, and they all drank from it. Jesus said to them, “Drink it, all of you,
this is My blood, which seals God’s covenant, My blood poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the day I
drink the new wine with you in My Father’s Kingdom.”

Worthy is the Lamb, Who was slain,
To receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength
And honor and glory and praise!

To Him Who sits on the throne and to the Lamb
Be praise and honor and glory and power,
Forever and ever!

And by His stripes we are healed!

Teach us, Father, that in celebrating this Supper given to us by Your Son, Jesus Christ, how we are to live our lives. The greatest should be like the youngest,
and the one who rules like the one who serves. And Jesus will confer on us a kingdom, just as You Father conferred one on Him, so that we might eat and drink
at His table in heaven. Teach us to live out our Salvation in the way we live our lives.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

Communion (sharing of the body and blood)





Prayer after Communion
May the grace of Christ our Saviour,
And the Father’s boundless love,
With the Holy Spirit’s favor,
Rest upon us from above.

“Thus may we abide in union
With each other and the Lord,
And possess, in sweet communion,
Joys which earth cannot afford.
Amen. By Rev. John Newton, 1779


Lord’s Prayer (please join hands)

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those who trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil. Amen.


Concluding

A Reversal Of Meekness
By Richard Foster

The most radical social teaching of Jesus was His total reversal of the contemporary notion of greatness. Leadership is found in becoming the servant of all.
Power is discovered in submission. The foremost symbol of this radical servanthood is the cross. “He [Jesus] humbled Himself and became obedient unto
death, even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:8). But note this: Christ not only died a “cross death,” He lived a “cross life.” The way of the cross, the way of a
suffering servant was essential to His ministry. Jesus lived the cross-life in submission to all human beings. He was the servant of all. He flatly rejected the
cultural givens of position and power when He said, “You are not to be called ‘Rabbi…Neither be called masters…” (Matthew 23:8-10). Jesus shattered the
customs of His day when He lived out the cross-life by taking women seriously and by being willing to meet with children. He lived the cross-life when He took a
towel and washed the feet of His disciples. This Jesus Who easily could have called down a legion of angels to His aid chose instead the cross-death of
Calvary. Jesus’ life was the cross-life of submission and service. Jesus’ death was the cross-death of conquest of suffering.