Holy Reverence

What does it mean to "take the Lord's name in vain"? And why is it so bad that God used one of His Ten Commandments on it? Does what we say really matter that much? Why? These questions and more answered in this week's message.

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Wholly Other: What Do I Know of Holy?

We ran into technical difficulties with last Sunday's sermon, causing it not to be recorded.  Here is the video we made to introduce the sermon.

"Buckets of Love" for Tornado Victims

 Liberty Baptist Association is asking us to help promote and collect "buckets of love" to send to tornado- stricken Oklahoma. People will need to purchase a 5 gallon bucket with a lid on it and fill it with the items listed.

 We will collect through Sunday and will ask the churches to bring the donated items to the following drop sites:

· FBC El Dorado (parking lot across from First Financial Bank);

· Central Baptist Church, Magnolia;

· Grace Baptist Church, Camden;

· Maple Avenue Baptist Church, Smackover.

 

Drop off times at the truck in El Dorado will be as follows:

· Thursday and Friday, May 23 & 24: 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

· Saturday and Sunday, May 25 & 26: 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.

· It will be best for individuals to leave donations at your church and the church can deliver them together on Sunday afternoon. 

Volunteers are needed to help us load at these times, with several volunteers available on Sunday afternoon.   

 

The items will need to be loaded on a tractor-trailer rig at FBC, El Dorado no later than 8:00 a.m. Monday morning. We will then go through Magnolia and load the items there, then go through Texarkana to deliver the items to Oklahoma.

These are the items that need to be placed in the buckets:

·  (1)     5 gallon bucket with lid

· (12)   16 oz bottles of water

· (2)     Flashlights with D size batteries

· (4)     Hand/shop towels

· (3)     Pairs of cotton work gloves

· (2)     Toilet paper rolls sealed in gallon Ziploc bags

· Other items you may wish to include and have room to put in the bucket, ie: snack bars, snack crackers, personal note from you assuring your prayers.

Monetary donations may be made as well. You can write a check to your church or to Liberty Baptist Association and indicate on it for: Oklahoma tornado relief. All funds will go directly to relief efforts and none to administrative costs.

Motherhood Is Holy

Call Her Blessed from seekfirstmedia on GodTube.

 

Jesus calls his disciples to a holy life. That means we should anticipate that God's perspective of this world is going to be very different from the popular view, and we should adopt the truth that God reveals. This week we look at a provocative Scripture (1 Timothy 2:15) to try to understand how God has designated motherhood as a holy thing and what that means for us as God's people.

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The Holy One of Israel (The First Commandment)

God established His people by rescuing them from slavery in Egypt and leading them to another land.  At Mount Sinai, He gave a personal introduction and let them know what it meant to be a holy people belonging to a holy God.  The baseline of all other truths is that God is singular.  He deserves our worship because He is the only God.  This week we look into what it means to live in the truth of the First Commandment.
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Holy, Holy, Holy

There are many unspeakable and utterly indescribable mysteries in God. God is too far beyond us to really remain anything but a mystery. Yet we can know Him through the truths He has revealed in creation, in His Word, and through Jesus an...d the Holy Spirit within us.

Many of these mysteries have been named: Trinity... God's omniscience... omnipresence... omnipotence... His unchanging nature... But just because we have named it does not mean we have grasped it. And just because we cannot explain or understand something about God does not mean it isn't true.

We have put God in the box of our own pat answers and tidy theology so much that we have lost our wonder. We want to grasp God, because to understand Him is to be able to predict (or even control) Him. But instead of trying to grasp God, we are meant to worship Him. And academic study does not bring us to an encounter with the Living God or His promises. Worshiping Him in His undiminished glory and holiness does.

 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness

 

Psalm 29:2

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Holier Than...?

"He that sees the beauty of holiness... sees the greatest and most important thing in the world" - Jonathan Edwards

"Happiness, not holiness, is the chief pursuit of most people today, including many professed Christians. They want Jesus t...o solve their problems and carry their burdens, but they don’t want Him to control their lives and change their character. It doesn’t disturb them that eight times in the Bible, God said to His people, ‘Be holy, for I am holy,’ and He means it" - Warren Wiersbe

"If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of, I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness" - Charles Spurgeon

In our effort to avoid being “holier-than-thou”, we’re not holier than anyone. The life of holiness is life as God's treasured possession, living at peace in His care. We are desperate for this life, and the world is desperate for God's holy people to show the way to the Holy One who is worthy of their worship.

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