Hey everyone, welcome to First Works Baptist Church. Let's all make our way inside and find a seat
To find your seat. Let's grab a song book open that song book up to song number 43
We're marching to Zion and if you are able let's all stand together for our first song song
43 we're marching to Zion
Song number 43 we're marching to Zion everyone nice and strong
on that first verse
Come we that love the lord and let our joys be known
Join in a song with sweet accord join in a song with sweet accord
And us around the throne and us around the throne
We're marching
On beautiful beautiful Zion
We're marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of god
Let those
Refuse to sing who never knew our god
but children of the heavenly king but children of the heavenly
Speak their joys abroad may speak their joys abroad
We're marching to Zion
Beautiful beautiful Zion
We're marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of god
The hill of Zion
Yields a thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly films before we reach the heavenly
Golden streets or walk the golden streets
We're marching to Zion
Beautiful beautiful
Zion we're marching upward to Zion
a beautiful city of god
To let our songs abound and every tear be dry
We're marching through emmanuel's ground
To bear
Two
Marching to Zion
Beautiful beautiful Zion
Marching upward to Zion
Father thank you God Lord for allowing us to be here tonight Lord and hear your word preached unto us God
We thank you Lord for your word. God. We thank you for this church and for pastor Lord
We pray now God that you would bless him and fill him with your Holy Spirit
God as he preaches to us Lord and help us God to be edified by the preaching Lord that we would
Apply it to our lives Lord and we pray differently than when we came in God. We love you Lord
It's in Jesus name we pray. Amen
You may be seated
Song 167
All
Hail the power of Jesus name
Song number one hundred and sixty-seven
All hail the power of Jesus name everyone all together nice and strong
All hail the power of Jesus name let
angels prostrate
fall
bring forth the
Royal diadem and crown
Bring the royal diadem and crown
Chosen seed of Israel's race he ran some from the
Hail him who saves you by his grace
And
Let every kindred every tribe on this
terrestrial ball
To him all majesty
a strike and crown
Him
To him all majesty a strike and crown
Lord
Oh that with yonder sacred throng we had his feet may fall
May fall
will join the
Everlasting song and crown him
Will join the everlasting song and crown him
Lord
All right, great singing thank you for being here this evening just a few announcements here before we sing our next song
Which will be song number 37?
There'll be no dark valley song number 37 if you want to get that ready in your song books
If you did not get a bulletin
Go ahead and raise your hand one of the ushers can get one for you some important information on there as well as our prayer
Sheet our Sunday morning service is at 1030 Sunday evening at 5 p.m
And then we have our Thursday night Bible study at 7 o'clock
We are currently going through the book of Matthew on Thursday evenings
So glad to have you tonight for a midweek Bible study
You see the Sony teams and times the list of expecting mothers if you can keep them in prayer
And of course the important reminders there at the bottom
Please make sure you give heed to that and some of the upcoming church events Friday September 29th
We have the homeschool field trip and that'll be a kids based Children's Museum meeting there at 9 45 a.m
If you'd like to participate in that if you are homeschooling your kids
Of course, the activity is free for anybody who participates
You can see my wife for more details in that regard and then we have a lady's prayer breakfast coming up on Saturday October 7th
Meeting at the building at 10 a.m
And if you have any questions about that, or if you want to be of a help you can see mr. Now Gonzalez
She's the one who heads that up
When they have the prayer breakfast there and then on Friday October 27th is the homeschool park day one announcement
That's not on here that I'm going to talk more about in detail
This coming Sunday is our fall program our falls right around the corner. In fact Paul is here on Saturday
I'm kind of ready to say goodbye to the summer and
those
Darn mosquitoes. Okay. Hopefully they go back to where they came from. I'm just kidding those bloodsuckers
I'm ready for the fall
I'm ready for the winter
But I'm ready for the fall program and a little something we're gonna do a little different this year is actually we're pushing it back
a couple weeks
And so the fall program with that will actually begin at the end of October leading into
November and of course concluding with the banquet and so I'll give you more details about that on
Sunday, but we're looking forward to a great fall program
We're still gonna have a push for visitors and so looking forward to that
You see the regular reminders there at the bottom no food or drink allowed in the main auditorium except for water and coffee
Please make sure you're not Lord hearing in the foyer fellowship hall during the preaching service
And of course, please make sure you silence your phones
During the preaching so as to not be a distraction during a service
So everyone's not looking at you and wondering where is that worldly song coming from?
Who's who's the owner of that phone, you know things of that nature?
And so just keep that in mind go ahead and pull out your prayer sheets there
I'm not gonna go over this but the G is gonna come up in just a bit
I just want to encourage everyone of course as we near the end of the year
to pray for some specific things, of course pray for our missions trip to Belize and
We're looking forward to going there having a preaching service and and also
evangelizing the the nearby city known as San Jose and so pray that we would be able to get a lot of people saved there and
That it would be very fruitful
But then also that we would get a lot of people saved during the fall program and we're gonna have a push for visitors
And in my opinion, it works really well
I mean we've had there's people in our church right now who actually reach through the fall program
their first time visiting was as a visitor during the fall program and
They got saved they got baptized. They became faithful to church started reaching people and so
Pray that we'd see that again this year
It's it's exciting to see new visitors come to church and so being prayer over that and just for the for the conclusion of
The year, of course
We concluded with one of the biggest things we have in our church is
The Christmas program and we're gonna be meeting with some of the leaders on Sunday night in that regard
But pray that that goes as that goes well as well
And then just for the conclusion of the year that we'd finish strong as a church and that God will give us a great
2024 to come as well and that's pretty much it
If you have an additional prayer request you'd like to be mentioned
You can place that at the bottom
Tear that off put into the offering plate and we'll make sure that it gets on there for the following week for the Jew
Why don't you come on up and pray with these needs?
All right, let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Generally father. Thank you for this day
Thank you for keeping us all safe as we traveled here
And we also want to thank you for this church that we have and the blessing has been I'm sure to all of us
Lord and we just pray that you continue to bless our church continue to use our church in a great way
we reached a lot of people with our
Sony marathons and just you know our Sunday soul-winning Lord
We just thank you for all the people we've reached so far and we just pray that as you reach new people as you grow
Numerically Lord, we just pray that they get plugged in to the Christian life Lord and they can start serving you
Start coming to church more often Lord and and hopefully become a laborer and start sowing in Lord for themselves
Lord we just pray to continue to bless our church and help us to grow in that way Lord
I just want to pray for the missions trips, especially a mischief to Belize that's coming up Lord
We've obviously labored there for some years already Lord
So we have a lot of converts that we already know and we just pray that the converts
Show up to this the preaching service Lord and we can stay in touch with them
And that ultimately that door remains open unto us Lord
So we can also get a lot of people saved while we're in Belize as well as having a great
Turnout for the service Lord and we can just have a great work done for you over there Lord
We just pray that you you keep us safe while we travel and you just help us to get a lot of work done
We also want to pray for the new people in our church
Lord and like I said already Lord as we get a lot of new people
We've been seeing a lot of new people coming in on Sundays Lord and just throughout the weeks Lord
We just pray that as they come in
That they're not say that they can get saved Lord and that they just get plugged in and you know
Bring their friends and their family and we could just get a great work done for you here over over here Lord
We also want to pray for the salvation of our unsaved family and friends Lord
Obviously there's people in all of our lives that we that we know are not saved Lord whether that's because of pride or whatever
That is Lord. We just pray that you soften their hearts that they can come to the to salvation Lord that free gift
And Lord we just pray that
that
That all the families that we have as well continue to grow obviously a lot of expecting mothers Lord and
We just that's obviously a blessing on our church though that we have a lot of
New mothers and we also have a lot of existing mothers have new new babies on the way Lord
And that's obviously a sign that you've been blessing our church Lord, and we also just want to pray for the fall program
That's coming up Lord. It's obviously been a great work for you in times past
So we just pray now that this this one coming up this year can also be a great work for you
We can see a lot of new people a lot of souls saved and we could just have a great work done for you
There as well Lord and lastly I want to pray for the Christmas program
Obviously, we're ending the end of the year. We've had a great year so far Lord a lot of souls saved
A lot of people reached we just pray that we continue to reach new people and that the Christmas program turns out to be
Great as it's always been Lord and we just pray that you're you're with the leaders of the Christmas program with Pastor Mejia and
Whoever's running that up Lord. We just pray that you're just with them and they could do a great work for you Lord and
Last we just want to pray for Pastor Mejia right now
You fill him with the Holy Spirit help him to preach unto us what he has prepared in his heart Lord
Help him to guide him through the scriptures and we also just pray for the congregation that you give him ears to hear and pray this
Now in Jesus name. Amen
So our third song is gonna be song number 37. There'll be no dark valley
All right song number 37 there'll be no dark valley song number 37
There'll be no dark valley everyone all together on this first verse
There'll be no dark valley when Jesus
Comes there'll be no dark valley when Jesus comes there'll be no dark
Valley when Jesus comes together
His love
To gather
Together his loved one's home
There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
There'll be no more sorrow when Jesus comes
But a glorious sorrow when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
There'll be no more weeping when Jesus comes
But a blessed reaping when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
There'll be songs of greeting when Jesus comes
And a joyful meeting when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
There'll be no dark belly when Jesus comes
Together his loved one's home
Amen. This time the ushers will collect the offering.
Tonight will be in Matthew chapter 22.
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Good evening. We're in Matthew chapter 22.
And the Bible reads,
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