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March 26, 2023
Today’s Sermon:
1 John 4:1–6
“The Need for Spiritual Discernment”
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We’re glad you’re here!
Magnificent
Marvelous
Matchless Love
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
Too vast and astounding to tell
Forever existing in worlds above
Now offered and given to all
O fountain of beauty eternal
The Father the Spirit the Son
Sufficient and endlessly generous
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
Creation is brimming with thankfulness
The mountains exultant they stand
The seasons rejoice in your faithfulness
All life is sustained by Your hand
You crown every meadow with color
You paint every shade in the sky
Each day the dawn wakes as an
encore of
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
How great how sure
His love endures forevermore
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
What grace that You entered our
brokenness
You came in the fullness of time
How far we had fallen from
righteousness
But not from the mercies of Christ
Your cross is our door to redemption
Your death is our fullness of life
That day how forgiveness flowed
as a flood
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
How great how sure
His love endures forevermore
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
United in your resurrection
You lift us to infinite heights
Could anything sever or take us from
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
How great how sure
His love endures forevermore
Magnificent marvelous matchless love
Blessed Be Your Name
Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of
abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Blessed Be Your name�When I’m found in the desert
place�Though I walk through the
wilderness�Blessed Be Your name
Every blessing You pour out I’ll
Turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name
When the sun’s shining down
on me
When the world’s ‘all as it
should be’
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with
suffering
Though there’s pain in the
offering
Blessed be Your name
Every blessing You pour out I’ll
Turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I’ll say
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord blessed be Your name (2x)
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Scripture Reading
1 John 4:1–6
1 John 4:1–6
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
1 John 4:1–6
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
Worshiping God through Tithes and Offerings
Here I Am To Worship
Light of the world�You stepped down into
darkness�Opened my eyes
Let me see
Beauty that made�This heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You
So here I am to worship�Here I am to bow down�Here I am to say that
You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely�Altogether worthy�Altogether wonderful to me
King of all days�O so highly exalted�Glorious in heaven above
Humbly You came
To the earth You created�All for love’s sake became
poor
So here I am to worship�Here I am to bow down�Here I am to say that
You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely�Altogether worthy�Altogether wonderful to me
And I’ll never know
How much it cost�To see my sin
Upon that cross
(2x)
So here I am to worship�Here I am to bow down�Here I am to say that
You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely�Altogether worthy�Altogether wonderful to me
So here I am to worship�Here I am to bow down�Here I am to say that
You’re my God
You’re altogether lovely�Altogether worthy�Altogether wonderful to me
Prayer
SERMON
The Need for Spiritual Discernment
1 John 4:1–6
1 John 4:1–6
1 John 4:1–6
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 4:1–6
1 John 4:1–6
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 John 4:1–6
1 John 4:1–6
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
1 John 4:1–6
5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
Application
O Come To The Altar
Are you hurting and
broken within�Overwhelmed by the
weight of your sin
Jesus is calling
Have you come to the end
of yourself�Do you thirst for a drink
from the well
Jesus is calling
O come to the altar�The Father’s arms are open
wide�Forgiveness was bought with�The precious blood of Jesus
Christ
Leave behind your regrets
and mistakes�Come today there’s no
reason to wait
Jesus is calling
Bring your sorrows and
trade them for joy�From the ashes a new life
is born
Jesus is calling
O come to the altar�The Father’s arms are open
wide�Forgiveness was bought with�The precious blood of Jesus
Christ
Oh what a Savior�Isn’t He wonderful�Sing hallelujah
Christ is risen
Bow down before Him�For He is Lord of all�Sing Hallelujah
Christ is risen
Oh what a Savior�Isn’t He wonderful�Sing hallelujah
Christ is risen
Bow down before Him�For He is Lord of all�Sing Hallelujah
Christ is risen
O come to the altar�The Father’s arms are open
wide�Forgiveness was bought with�The precious blood of Jesus
Christ
O come to the altar�The Father’s arms are open
wide�Forgiveness was bought with�The precious blood of Jesus
Christ
Bear your cross as you
wait for the crown
Tell the world
of the treasure
you’ve found
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Closing Prayer
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