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Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceGenesis 15:5-65 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.” 6 And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Dan TaylorScripture referenceJeremiah 2:1-13Israel Forsakes God2 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:“This is what the Lord says:“‘I remember the devotion of your youth,    how as a bride you loved meand followed me through the wilderness,    through a land not sown.3 Israel was holy to the Lord,    the firstfruits of his harvest;all who devoured her were held guilty,    and disaster overtook them,’”declares the Lord.4 Hear the word of the Lord, you descendants of Jacob,    all you clans of Israel.5 This is what the Lord says:“What fault did your ancestors find in me,    that they strayed so far from me?They followed worthless idols    and became worthless themselves.6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord,    who brought us up out of Egyptand led us through the barren wilderness,    through a land of deserts and ravines,a land of drought and utter darkness,    a land where no one travels and no one lives?’7 I brought you into a fertile land    to eat its fruit and rich produce.But you came and defiled my land    and made my inheritance detestable.8 The priests did not ask,    ‘Where is the Lord?’Those who deal with the law did not know me;    the leaders rebelled against me.The prophets prophesied by Baal,    following worthless idols.9 “Therefore I bring charges against you again,”declares the Lord.    “And I will bring charges against your children’s children.10 Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and look,    send to Kedar[a] and observe closely;    see if there has ever been anything like this:11 Has a nation ever changed its gods?    (Yet they are not gods at all.)But my people have exchanged their glorious God    for worthless idols.12 Be appalled at this, you heavens,    and shudder with great horror,”declares the Lord.13 “My people have committed two sins:They have forsaken me,    the spring of living water,and have dug their own cisterns,    broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceMatthew 25:35-37, 4035 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’37 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?’”40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referencePhilippians 2:5-11The Humbled and Exalted Christ5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Morning Worship Service with Rev. Bud HanceIsaiah 53:7-127 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8  He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9  And they made His grave with the wicked -  But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. 12  Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceIsaiah 53:4-6Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.