United Methodist Churches of Cresco and Zion
Piano/organ prelude
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast
love;
According to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin!
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever
before me.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and
right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your
holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in
me a willing spirit.
Hymn: 363-And Can it be that I should gain
Children’s Time
Sermon
ASSURANCE OF SALVATION-Memory
Verse: 1 John 5:11-12
1-And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life
is in his Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son
of God does not have life.
Who gives eternal life?...............................
Who is the source of eternal life?.....................
Where can eternal life be found?...................
Who has eternal life? …………………………….
Who does not have eternal life?...........................
2-Rom. 5:8- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were
still sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. How
has God shown his love for us?...........
3-John 1:12- Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his
name, he gave the right to become children of God
Who gives the right to become the children of God?....................
How can one become a child of God?...............................
4-Eph. 2:8-9- For it is by grace you have been saved ,through faith—and
this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no
one can boast.
Does human effort, religion and good works
save?............................
5-Rev. 3:20- Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my
voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they
with me. When does Christ come into our life?..................................
6-John 5:24- “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him
who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from
death to life.
What has God done for us? Past………………………...Present……………………..
Future…………….
7-John 20:31- But these are written that you may believe[a]that Jesus is
the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his
name. Why was the Bible written?.................
8-2 Cor. 5:17- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come
[a] The old has gone, the new is here!-What happens when one is joined to
Christ?........
9-Gal.5:22-23- But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.
Against such things there is no law.
What are the attitudes of a new creature (fruits)?.....................
Joys & Concerns
Communion
The Lord’s Prayer
Offering
Closing Hymn-369-Blessed Assurance
Benediction
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Announcements/Calendar
Congratulations, Pastor Derrick, on your ordination into the United
Methodist Church on Saturday, July 11.
