Cornerstone Evangelical Free Church Worship Service - September 11, 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 September 11, 2022

Order of Worship
Theme: The judgment of God comes against all idol worship no matter what form that idolatry takes. God’s search light, searches the heart of everyman leading the humble to repentance, belief and receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
Welcome & Call to Worship
“Immortal Invisible, God Only Wise” #33
“Rise Up O Church of God” #433
Prayer & Children’s Story
“Standing on the Promises” #410
“My Shepherd is the Lord” page 11 Hymns & Songs
Offering - “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks” #777
Responsive Reading - #177 God’s Goodness 
Congregational Prayer 
Hearing God’s Word
“The Divine Search Light”- Pastor Whitney
Responding to God’s Word
“Our God Reigns” #372
Benediction and Postlude

"The Divine Search Light”
7th in our series the Prophet Zephaniah
I. Searching the hearts of men - Zephaniah 1:12
* A. The Day of the Lord will bring searching judgment
* 1. Jerusalem faced this in 587 B.C.
* 2. The world today faces God’s searchlight every day - John 16:8-11
* 3. The believer prays for this searching - Psalm 139:23-24
* B. The Lord’s punishment is for the idolatry they commit
* 1. The idol of Complacency - Revelation 3:15-17
* 2. The idol of Comfort - Matthew 5:3-12
* 3. The idol of Convenience - Mark 8:34-38
* a. The cross is a place of suffering and death
* b. The disciple dies to himself daily in order to live for Christ
* c. Idolatry rejects truth about who God truly is
II. The Wicked Opinion about God - Zephaniah 1:12
* A. God won’t do anything good
* 1. This is the heresy known as deism - 
* a. Idolatry which claims God is aloof 
* b. That He created the world and then abandoned it
* 2. The common way this idolatry manifests itself - God is simply ignored, believing He does nothing anyway
* B. God won’t do anything to judge the wicked
* 1. They believe calamities are not part of God’s judgment  
* a. Jesus taught the opposite - Luke 13:1-5
* b. Essentially they reject the omnipotence and justice of Almighty God
* 2. God is the source of calamities - Job 2:10
* 3. But God is never the source of evil - James 1:13

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