Cornerstone Free Church Worship Service - September 8, 2024

Sermons by Pastor David Whitney, Senior Instructor of Institute on the Constitution and pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church in Arnold, MD.

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SUNDAY September 8, 2024

Order of Worship

Theme: When a people refuse to repent of their sins individually and corporately, serious judgment from God Almighty is their future.

Welcome & Call to Worship
“Praise to the Lord” #210
“Take My Life and Let It Be Consecrated” #597
Prayer & Children’s Lesson
  “Lord I Lift Your Name on High” #107
  “Why Do the Nations Rage” pg. 5 Hymns and Songs
Offering - “There is A Fountain” #336
Responsive Reading - The Lord is my Light #736 men solo 1 women solo 2
Congregational Prayer
Hearing God’s Word
“Woe to the Unrepentant”- Pastor Whitney
Responding to God’s Word
“He Who Began a Good Work in You” #537
Benediction and Postlude

“Woe to the Unrepentant”
37th In our series the Prophet Micah

I. Judging the Fruits - Matthew 7:15-20
* A. Jesus instructs us to use God’s standard to evaluate
* 1. The most misinterpreted verse of the Bible - Matt. 7:1
* 2. Jesus us warns us to judge ourselves by the righteous standard we should use in every judgment
* B. The Parable of the Fig Tree - Luke 13:6-9
* 1. God is ultimate fruit inspector
* 2. That which does not meet His standard will be burned

II. Gathering in a Vacant Harvest - Micah 7:1
* A. Micah’s Fruit inspection mission
* 1. The time of year when the fruit should be most abundant
* a. When the finest grapes should be fully ripe
* b. He cannot even find one cluster to eat
* 2. God is the ultimate inspector, His soul longs for righteous fruit in the hearts, souls and minds of people
* a. The ninefold fruits of the Spirit - Galatians 5:22-23
* b. The Father’ great desire - John 15:8
* B. The Father’s evaluation of the kingdom of Judah - Micah 7:2
* 1. The faithful man - vanished, treachery and deceit are everywhere 
* 2. There are no upright, righteous men in the land
* a. The list of evils spawned - Romans 3:10-18
* b. Only through saving faith in Christ can any reformation begin
* 3. Everyone is seeking to destroy human beings for profit
* a. The destruction of body, mind and soul
* b. The refusal to honor human beings as creatures who are made in the image of God

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