Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church Worship Service - August 28, 2022

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 August 28, 2022

Order of Worship
Theme: The idols of man are foolish inventions of vain imaginations. They have no real power except in the minds of those who believe and follow them.

Welcome & Call to Worship
“O Worship the King” #104
“Trust and Obey” #571
Prayer & Children’s Story
“Thy Word” #184
“Why do the Nations Rage?” pg#5 in Hymns & Songs
Offering - “You are My All in All” #583
Responsive Reading - Christ the Redeemer” #379
Congregational Prayer
Hearing God’s Word
“Idolatry and Superstition”- Pastor Whitney
Responding to God’s Word
“Here I Am Lord” #589
Benediction and Postlude

"Idolatry and Superstition"
5th in our series the Prophet Zephaniah

I. The Judgment of the Lord - Zephaniah 1:8-9
A. The punishment of God falling on the royal children - 2 K 25:5-7
B. God’s judgment on the threshold hoppers

II. The Origins of threshold Phobia - 1 Samuel 4:2-4
A. The war was because of Israel’s sin - Judges 2:1-3
1. The real solution to the problem was true repentance
2. Israel thought God would function like the genie in the lamp - the ark in our midst will win the battle
a. To their dismay they found out that was not so - 1 Samuel 4:10
b. The death of the high Priest - 1 Samuel 4:16-18
c. Ichabod - 1 Samuel 4:19-22
B. The Philistines discover a contest between their idol and the One True God - 1 Samuel 5:1-2
1. Dagon the fish idol - a merman, a physical image of god
a. The supposed father of Baal, the fertility idol
b. He was credited with the defeat of Samson - Judges 16:23
c. He was worshiped by Nineveh, to whom Jonah came to out of the belly of a great fish
2. Dagon bows before the Lord God - 1 Samuel 5:3-5
a. They feared the wrong thing, the threshold
b. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of both wisdom and knowledge - Proverbs 1:7; 9:10
C. How do we combat superstition? Psalm 135:15-18
1. Identify the Idolatry of our times and rebuke it - Ephesians 5:11-14
2. Explore and understand the nature of the One True God revealed in the Holy Word of God

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