Percival Community Church: October, Sunday 6, 2024

Blessings

Good Morning and Welcome October!

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Call to Worship, II Peter 1:3-11

Prayer

Hymn “All The Way My Savior Leads Me”

Tithes and Offerings, Doxology

Hymn “Savior Like A Shepherd Lead Us”

Praise and Prayer

Responsive Reading: II Peter 2:1-22

False Teachers and Their Destruction

LEADER: 2 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be
false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying
the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.

ALL: 2 Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into
disrepute.
LEADER: 3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their
condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been
sleeping.
ALL: 4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,
putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
LEADER: 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its
ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
ALL: 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,
and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
LEADER: 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved
conduct of the lawless
ALL: 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his
righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—
LEADER: 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and
to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
ALL: 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and
despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial
beings;
LEADER: 11 yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not
heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord.
ALL: 12 But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like
unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and
like animals they too will perish.
LEADER: 13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their
idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in
their pleasures while they feast with you.
ALL: 14 With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable;
they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!
LEADER: 15 They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of
Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.
ALL: 16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without
speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
LEADER: 17 These people are springs without water and mists driven by a storm.
Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
ALL: 18 For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires
of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error.
LEADER: 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity
—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”
ALL: 20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at
the end than they were at the beginning.
LEADER: 21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred
command that was passed on to them.
ALL: 22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that
is washed returns to her wallowing in the mud.”

Hymn “He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought”

Special Music: “Shoulders”
by IV King and Country

Sermon: “Peter - Danger Within”

Hymn “Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated”

Benediction: Lamentations 3:21-25

Prayer

Mary Sherwood, Donna Glenn, Roger and Pat Polsley, Davie Warren - cancer, Randy Snapp - cancer, Drew, Dave Heuberger, Harley Niles, kidney disease, Farmers in the field, Mike Shipley, Shenandoah, Don and Wava, Jennie Evans, cancer, Mary Thornquist, cancer, JoAnn Birkby, painful fall, Phyllis Crom - broke arms and leg, Joan Tiemeyer, Victims of the tempest Helene, Unspoken prayers

Praise for: Mary’s back, lovely weather.

October 20th

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown