FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH - August 12, 2007

FREEDOM BAPTIST CHURCH
August 12, 2007

Today’s Sunday School Lesson: The Life of Elisha - Elisha at Damascus - II Kings 8:7-15
We next find Elisha at Damascus, where he went to anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. Benhadad was ill and sent Hazael with a present to inquire of Elisha, “Will I recover from this sickness?” The answer of Elisha contained the unmistakable conclusion, “The Lord has shown me that he will certainly die.” Elisha told him that he would be king and bring great evil upon the children of Israel. Hazael returned and told the king that the prophet had predicted his recovery. That was the last day of Benhadad’s life, for the next day he was smothered, and Hazael reigned in his place (8:7-15).

Today’s Sermon: I Corinthians 2:11-3:4 - From Milk to Solid Food
These are the carnal Christians. They also did not know the deep things of God, not because they could not know them, but because their worldly philosophies and trust in human wisdom prevented them from knowing them. They only saw “the tip of the iceberg.” They were babes in Christ and carnal in their lives.

The Sarah Corner – “And Sarah laughed”
Roof Chicken: One day a State Trooper was pulling off an expressway. When he turned onto the street at the end of the ramp, he noticed someone at a chicken place getting into his car. The driver placed the bucket of chicken on top of his car, got in and drove off with the bucket still on top of his car. So the trooper decided to pull him over and perform a community service by giving the driver his chicken. So he pulled him over, walked up to the car, pulled the bucket off the roof and offered it to the driver. The driver looked at the trooper and said, "No thanks, I just bought some."

Prayers and Praises for 2007
Be in prayer for: our missionaries, Marshall Craig, Larry Morgan, and Ed Potter; our church for this year; Mike Rogers, medical (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma); Dan Campeau, medical; Ruth’s Aunt Laverne, recovery; Jackie’s daughter Elaine, health;; Bertha, continued recuperation; Nate, friend of Matt’s, job; Dennis, Christie’s husband, job; Michael, praise for improvement; Rocky, medical; Owen Frisby, medical; Howard and Jo Alley, recent death of a friend; Lisa’s daughter in law Amy, recuperation; Terry Tucker, medical; Eleanor, Campeau’s neighbor; Leon and Martha, passing of Leon’s brother in law Ed; Lisa’s recuperation from her surgery; a friend of Dennis and Kathi; friends of Stephanie Heald, auto accident; Christie, car trouble; Friend of Lynn, auto fatality; Joy Sunderland, continuing medical treatment

WORSHIP SERVICE

Mansion Over the Hilltop (see bulletin)

When We All Get to Heaven p. 542

Scripture Reading: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is.
I Corinthians 13:12; I John 3:2

Face to Face p. 549

We Shall Behold Him p. 237

Offering and Message: Link to sermon
Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path-And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.