Order, Words, & Voices
07.07.24, Faces – Daniel 3, Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs Sweet Sweet Spirit Lynn/Team
No Other Gods
Passage/Prayer Daniel 3 Isaiah
Songs Glorify Thy Name Lynn/Team
Had it Not Been the Lord
Message Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego Rick
Music Praise the Name Lynn/Team
Community/Benediction Rick
Closing Peace Rick
Closing Music Sweet Sweet, Spirit Lynn/Team
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
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Music (Slides) Lynn/Team
Sweet Sweet Spirit CCLI Song # 18204
Verse 1
There’s a sweet sweet Spirit
in this place
And I know that it’s the
Spirit of the Lord
There are sweet expressions
on each face
And I know they feel the presence of the Lord
Chorus
Sweet Holy Spirit
Sweet heavenly Dove
Stay right here with us
Filling us with Your love
And for these blessings
We lift our hearts in praise
Without a doubt we’ll know
That we have been revived
When we shall leave this place
Verse 2
There are blessings
you cannot receive
Till you know Him
in His fullness and believe
You’re the one to profit
when you say
I am going to walk with Jesus all the way
Chorus
Sweet Holy Spirit
Sweet heavenly Dove
Stay right here with us
Filling us with Your love
And for these blessings
We lift our hearts in praise
Without a doubt we’ll know
That we have been revived
When we shall leave this place
No Other Gods
Verse 1
The God of the heavens
The Ancient of Days
The God of our fathers
And God of my praise
The Alpha Omega
Beginning and End
Forever and ever
Your kingdom will stand
We come to bow before You now
We come to lay our lives down
Chorus
We will have no other gods before You
Nothing on earth will compete for Your throne
You are the sov’reign I Am
And You’ll reign in our hearts alone
We will exalt You on high forever
King of all kings and the Lord of all lords
We will have no other gods before You
Verse 2
Our Maker Creator
Before time began
Messiah and Savior
Redeemer and Friend
Our Rock of Salvation
So faithful and true
We give all the glory
And honor to You
For You alone are worthy
Of our never-ending love
Chorus
We will have no other gods before You
Nothing on earth will compete for Your throne
You are the sov’reign I Am
And You’ll reign in our hearts alone
We will exalt You on high forever
King of all kings and the Lord of all lords
We will have no other gods before You
Passage (Slides) Isaiah Daniel 3:13-30
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stood before King Nebuchadnezzar as he asked them, “Is it true that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden statue?”
“Let’s fix this situation now, when you hear the sound of the ensemble, just fall down and worship the statue, it’s no big deal. But, if you don’t, you will immediately be thrown into the blazing fire, and let’s face it, no god who will be able to deliver you.”
All three responded, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to fix anything. If our God is able to deliver us, let him deliver us. But, regardless of the outcome, we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue that you have set up.”
Nebuchadnezzar’s face revealed his rage against the three. He ordered the furnace heated seven times hotter than usual and his strongest guards to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire.
The furnace was so overheated that the raging flames reached out and killed the men who threw the three into the fire.
As Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fire he was astonished and called to his counselors asking, “We only threw three into the fire, correct?” They answered the king, “Yes, O king.” The shocked Nebuchadnezzar said, “I see four men walking around in the fire unharmed. The fourth looks like a god.”
Nebuchadnezzar called the three out from the fire and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who has delivered his servants. They disobeyed my command risking their lives rather than serve or worship any god but their God.”
The King made a new decree: ‘Anyone who utters blasphemy against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be brutally punished.”
Join me in the prayer of Jesus,
‘Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be your name./ Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven./ Give us this day our daily bread./ Forgive us our trespasses, while we forgive those who trespass against us./ And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil./ For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Music (Slides) Lynn/Team
Glorify Thy Name CCLI Song # 1383
Verse 1
Father we love You
We worship and adore You
Glorify Thy name in all the earth
Glorify Thy name
Glorify Thy name
Glorify Thy name in all the earth
Verse 2
Jesus we love You
We worship and adore You
Glorify Thy name in all the earth
Glorify Thy name
Glorify Thy name
Glorify Thy name in all the earth
Verse 3
Spirit we love You
We worship and adore You
Glorify Thy name in all the earth
Glorify Thy name
Glorify Thy name
Glorify Thy name in all the earth
Had It Not Been The Lord #661644
Verse 1
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
The anger of the enemy would have swallowed us alive
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
Chorus
Blessed be the Lord who would not give us up
Blessed be the Lord for His unfailing love
The snare is broken and we have escaped
Our help is in the name of the Lord
(Blessed be the Lord)
Verse 2
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
The water would have engulfed us
We would have surely died
Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
Ending
Our help is in the name of the Lord
Blessed be the Lord
Message Rick (Slide)
- [Slide – Leave Title Slide up for entire message]
Book of Daniel Introduction
Took place during Exile-why is exile important to revisit? Pivotal season (birth and resurrection of Jesus plus exile), ownership of promise and faith.
- Land Promise, a place for people and God, farm land/pasture, holy city, Temple (God’s presence), all three neglected by Isrealites then destroyed by Babylonians. Exiled
- People/Community Promise – Effort to divide, destroy community. Still exist today around world and within America.Gatherings/Synagogues.
- Blessing/Hope Promise – Efforts that minimize/destroy followers impact.Compromise of promise.
- Stories of Daniel and contemporaries, Shadrach, Meshac, Abednego
- Stories from exile probably around 500 BC.
- Small group of young men given privilege in Baylon as Slaves.
- Collective stories. King, Daniel, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Stories written for people 3 hundred years plus later.
- During ‘absence’ time of ‘silence’ (400 years of silence)
- Time people felt abandoned and forgotten by God
- Like time of exile, this pre-Jesus people once again were oppressed and facing trails of faith & issues of trust in God
- Time of fear to be public about faith, fearful/hidden faith community.
- Written to encourage faith of Israelites in an unfaithful time
- Written to give a concrete example of faith.
- Examples of faith that grow trust and hollow/absent faith w/no trust.
- King responded to God’s acts with a demand of worship/faith/obedience to true God in one moment but then demand worship towards him/gods of Babylonians soon after.
- 3 men demonstrate faith seen in statement to King – “Regardless of the outcome, we will not serve your gods or worship the golden statue that you have set up.”
- Regardless faith leads to Resolute Faith.
- Problem w/Evangelical movement since Christianity favored by Politics/governments, collusion 300 plus years after Jesus. Thinking it is about our prayer of faith in the moment but salvation is a journey. Has led to unholy collusion and heretical governance. Trump Bible.
- Work on your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:12-13)
- Example of Jesus when he called disciples saying ‘follow me’, but not till later that Peter recognized that Jesus was Messiah when he answered the question ‘who do you say that I am?’ was he revealing his full decision to follow, to say ‘yes’ to God. Then Jesus was able to call him, ‘feed my sheep’. Salvation is not about heaven or hell, it is about LIFE.
Second (strange) verse in July Exit Song,
‘There are blessings you cannot receive till you know Him in His fullness and believe. You’re the one to profit when you say I am going to walk with Jesus all the way.’
Music (Slides) Lynn/Team
O Praise The Name (Anástasis) CCLI Song # 7037787
Verse 1
I cast my mind to Calvary
Where Jesus bled and died for me
I see His wounds His hands His feet
My Saviour on that cursed tree
Verse 2
His body bound and drenched in tears
They laid Him down in Joseph’s tomb
The entrance sealed by heavy stone
Messiah still and all alone
Chorus
O praise the Name of the Lord our God
O praise His Name forevermore
For endless days we will sing Your praise
Oh Lord oh Lord our God
Verse 3
Then on the third at break of dawn
The Son of heaven rose again
O trampled death where is your sting
The angels roar for Christ the King
Chorus
O praise the Name of the Lord our God
O praise His Name forevermore
For endless days we will sing Your praise
Oh Lord oh Lord our God
Verse 4
He shall return in robes of white
The blazing sun shall pierce the night
And I will rise among the saints
My gaze transfixed on Jesus’ face
Chorus
O praise the Name of the Lord our God
O praise His Name forevermore
For endless days we will sing Your praise
Oh Lord oh Lord our God
Community (Slides) Rick
- Next Sunday, Faces of our Faith summer series, 07.14.24, Jonah
- Two Weeks, 07.28.24, Faces, Anna, Special Preacher – Reverend Jaimie Mercer, Luke 2:21-38
- July Food and Games night TBA
- Here and There Backpack Program, Prayers for Students
- Geary/Watonga Impact opportunity = information available
Closing Responsive Reading Benediction (Slides) Rick
Leader: God does not waver in his promise, God does not give up on those who love him and do as he directs.
Response: We are not always faithful, we are not always obedient. We do evil, we rebel, we take detours around God’s paths.
Leader: God is righteous, we are not.
Response: God is merciful, God grieves over our disobedience.
Leader: God commands us to love others yet we hate and condemn. God corrects us and we again rise in rebellion.
Response: God’s mercies are never ending, his love for us is never finished.
Leader: Even in our sinful state we cry out for God to shine again on us, to show us the true glory of peace and joy.
Response: Even in our sinful state we know that God will bend down his ear to us and hear our plea.
Leader: We ask for open eyes to see our own state. We do not ask based on our own merits or actions but on God’s righteous mercy and love.
Response: We wait for God to hear and forgive, to listen and to act. God will not quicken his steps because we are impatient but because God is love.
Leader: God is the God of transformation, may we leave here as beings ready for our transformation.
Response: We lay down those things that limit God’s transformation in our lives.
Leader: Amen.
Response: Amen. (Daniel’s prayer, Daniel 9)
Closing Peace (Slides) Rick
Leader: May the peace of the Lord go with you.
Response: And also with you.
Closing Music Lynn/Team
Sweet Sweet Spirit CCLI Song # 18204
Verse 1
There’s a sweet sweet Spirit in this place
And I know that it’s the Spirit of the Lord
There are sweet expressions on each face
And I know they feel the presence of the Lord
Chorus
Sweet Holy Spirit
Sweet heavenly Dove
Stay right here with us
Filling us with Your love
And for these blessings
We lift our hearts in praise
Without a doubt we’ll know
That we have been revived
When we shall leave this place
Verse 2
There are blessings you cannot receive
Till you know Him in His fullness and believe
You’re the one to profit when you say
I am going to walk with Jesus all the way
Chorus
Sweet Holy Spirit
Sweet heavenly Dove
Stay right here with us
Filling us with Your love
And for these blessings
We lift our hearts in praise
Without a doubt we’ll know
That we have been revived
When we shall leave this place
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