GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH Let Freedom Ring

Let Freedom Ring
GRACE EVANGELICAL CHURCH
By Bill & Gloria Gaither
SUNDAY
JUL. 3, 2011
The organ prelude marks the beginning of
the worship service. It calls us to quiet ourselves
and to direct our hearts and minds toward Him.
Prelude
“America the Beautiful”
Ian Pointer
by Samuel A. Ward
Call to Worship
Invocation
Gloria Patri
Announcements
Hymn
Hymn
Hymn
Honoring Fathers
Praise and Prayer
Music Special
In His Word
Communion
Benediction
Closing Chorus
Insert
“I’m Free, I’m Free”
“I’m So Glad Jesus Set Me Free ”
Insert
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“The Star-Spangled Banner”
“America”
“Battle Hymn of the Republic”
“Let Freedom Ring”
“Let Freedom Ring”
“Behold God”
“Boundless Love”
Ron Blackman
Gaither Vocal Band
John 8:25-36
I Cor. 11:23-32
“Freely, Freely”
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“The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek;he hath sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison
to them that are bound;”
Isaiah 61:1
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Pastor
Organist
David M. Pointer
JoAnn Pointer
1420 N. Florida Ave. Tampa, FL 33602
www.geconline.org
813-273-4469
Deep within, the heart has always known, that there is freedom
Somehow breathed into, the very soul of life
The prisoner, the powerless, the slave have always known it
There’s something that keeps reaching for the sky
And even life begins because, a baby fights for freedom
And songs we love to sing, have freedom’s theme
Some have walked, through fire and flood, to find a place of
freedom
And some faced hell itself, for freedom’s dream
Let freedom ring, wherever minds know what it means, to be in
chains
Let freedom ring, wherever hearts know pain
Let freedom echo, through the lonely streets, where prisons have
no key
We can be free, and we can sing, let freedom ring
God built freedom, into ev’ry fiber of creation
And He meant for us to all be free and whole
But when my Lord bought freedom,
Through the blood of His redemption
His cross stamped pardon on my very soul
And I’ll sing it out, with ev’ry breath, I’ll let the whole world hear it
This hallelujah anthem of the free
That iron bars and heavy chains, can never hold us captive
The Son has made us free, and free indeed
Let freedom ring, wherever minds know what it means, to be in
chains
Let freedom ring, wherever hearts know pain
Let freedom echo, through the lonely streets, where prisons have
no key
We can be free, and we can sing, let freedom ring
Let freedom echo, through the lonely streets, where prisons have
no key
You can be free, and you can sing, let freedom ring
You can be free, and you can sing, let freedom ring, let freedom ring
A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD LIKE A MEDICINE
ANNOUNCEMENTS.................
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Fellowship & Refreshments
Morning Worship
Indoor July 4th Picnic
Mid Week Service
Prayer, Praise, and Bible Study
Adult Study: “The Hall of Faith”
Kids Club: “Young Teen Talk”
Youth: “Teen Talk”
Bibles for Russia collection in entryway.
Remember soup collection for Metropolitan Ministries.
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attendance register, and the offering box. If you have never completed a visitor card,
please complete one and place it in the offering box. If you have completed a visitor
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IN HIS SERVICE................................................................IN HIS HOUSE
Date
Nursery
Refresh.
Ushers
June Cleaning
07/03
Ian
Pointer R
Bottomley
Bottomley
07/10
Jonah
Blackman
Lowry
French
07/17
Nicki
Bottomley
Blackman
Blackman
PUNS
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
SMALL TOWNS
Those who grew up in small towns will laugh when they read this.
Those who didn't will be in disbelief and won't understand how true it is.
When you decided to walk somewhere for exercise, 5 people would pull over and ask if
you wanted a ride.
TECH SUPPORT
Customer: I can't get on the Internet.
Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five dots.
A NUN GRADING PAPERS
Moses died before he ever reached Canada. Then Joshua led the Hebrews in the Battle
of Geritol.
OXYMORONS
If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?
I DON’T FEEL STUPED ANY MORE
PROVERBS FOR LIVING
“The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge;
and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.”
Proverbs 18:15
You Are Free
O God—
I read today
That the sons of Jacob
And their descendants
Had lived in Egypt 430 years.
But on the last day
Of the 43oth year
Your people left Egypt
And the cruel bondage
They had painfully endured.
This was the time You selected.
God, what time have You selected
To free me from the cruel tyranny
That binds me without mercy to myself?
Chosen child—
In my Son
You are even now
Completely free.
Accept your freedom!
Walk into the radiant company
Of My people.
Free!
I am tingling with the joy
Of a glorious discovery:
Continuous surrender
Brings continuous freedom.
Lord, I love being free!
Freedom
For so long, dear God
I stared with dreadful fascination
At the thick, heavy chains
Binding my burdened life
When all the while You were waiting
For my personal consent
To break the chains and set me free.
Oh, what liberating joy
When I finally said Yes!
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The Star-Spangled Banner
AMERICA
Source unknown
From Thesaurus Musicus. 1744
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH,1808-1895
say, can you see, by the dawds ear-Iy light, What so proud-Iy we
thus be it ev - er,when free men shallstand Be
tween their loved
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My Country, 'Tis of Thee
Attributed to
John Stafford Smith, 1750-1836
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, 1779-1843
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by Thy might, Great God, our King!
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Battle lIymn of the Repuhlic
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American melody, c. 1852
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I'M FREE, I'M FREE
I'm tree, I'm tree, I'm tree, I'm tree, Jesus has set me tree.
I'm tree, I'm tree, I'm tree, I'm tree, Jesus has set me tree.
Whom the Son sets tree is tree indeed, Jesus has set me tree
Whom the Son sets tree is tree indeed, Jesus has set me tree
I'M SO GLAD JESUS SET ME FREE
I'm so glad Jesus set me tree. I'm so glad Jesus set me tree.
I'm so glad Jesus set me tree. Singing glory hallelujah, Jesus set me tree
Satan had me
Satan had me
Satan had me
Singing glory
bound but
bound but
bound but
hallelujah,
Jesus set me tree.
Jesus set me tree.
Jesus set me tree.
Jesus set me tree.
I'm on my way to heaven 'cause Jesus set me tree.
I'm on my way to heaven 'cause Jesus set me tree.
I'm on my way to heaven 'cause Jesus set me tree.
Singing glory hallelujah, Jesus set me tree
I'm so glad Jesus set me tree. I'm so glad Jesus set me tree.
I'm so glad Jesus set me tree. Singing glory hallelujah, Jesus set me tree
fate-fullight-ning
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righteous sen-tence by the dim and fIar-ing lamps- His
soul, to an-swerHim!
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Glo - ry! glo-ry, hal-Ie - lu - jah!
Glo - ry! glo-ry, hal-Ie - lu - jah!
BEHOLD GOD
Behold God is my salvation
I will trust, I will not be afraid
Behold God is my strength and my song
And He is become my Lord
BOUNDLESS LOVE
Boundless love, unending joy
This is my life. It's what I know
And I can't believe that He selected me
Jesus my Lord, it's you I owe.
GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be World without end. Amen. Amen
Glo - ry! glo- ry, hal-Ie - lu - jah!
His truth is march- ing
on.
A HAPPy BIRTHDAY/ANNIVERSARY
TO YOU
A happy birthday to you. . . a happy anniversary to you.
Every day of the year. . . may you find Jesus near.
A happy birthday to you. , . a happy anniversary to you. The best you have ever had.
FREELY, FREELY
Freely, treely you have received, treely, treely give.
Go in My name and because you believe
Others will know that I live.
THE 4TH OF JULY
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the
Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured
before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the
Revolutionary War.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their
sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.
Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men
of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence
knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept
from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his
debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move
his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and
his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and
poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,
Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British
General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters.
He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was
destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed
his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13
children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to
waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning
home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't.
So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and
silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
(Acts 1:8) and ye shall be witnesses unto me
Twelve picked by Jesus:
Peter, crucified upside-down in Rome c. AD 64.
James, son of Zebedee was beheaded in AD 44,
John, son of Zebedee, he is believed tohave died of natural causes due to
old age.
Andrew, Peter's brother, was crucified upon a diagonal or X-shaped cross.
Philip was crucified in AD 54.
Bartholomew (also known as Nathaniel) was flayed alive (skinned) and then
beheaded
Matthew killed by an axe in AD 60.
Thomas was killed by a spear in Mylapore, Madras, India in AD 72.
James, son of Alphaeus, beaten to death with a club after being crucified and
stoned.
Jude was crucified.
Simon the Zealot was crucified in AD 74.
Matthias, Judas' replacement, was stoned and beheaded.
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“Let Freedom Ring”
John 8:25-36
Isaiah 61:1
(Lev 25:10) And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all
the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall
return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
(Isa 61:1) The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed
me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are
bound;
(Luke 4:18) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach
the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance
to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are
bruised,
(John 8:25) Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them, Even
the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
(John 8:26) I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true;
and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
(John 8:27) They understood not that he spake to them of the Father.
(John 8:28) Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then
shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath
taught me, I speak these things.
(John 8:29) And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do
always those things that please him.
(John 8:30) As he spake these words, many believed on him.
(John 8:31) Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my
word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
(John 8:32) And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
(John 8:33) They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to
any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
(John 8:34) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever
committeth sin is the servant of sin.
(John 8:35) And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth
ever.
(John 8:36) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
(Acts 22:28) And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this
freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
(Rom 8:21) Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
(2 Cor 3:17) Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty.
(Gal 5:1) Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be
not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
(Gal 5:13) For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an
occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
(1 Pet 2:16) As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the
servants of God.
(Jude 1:4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old
ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.