COLLECT (Formal prayer/corporate prayer)
Help us, Lord, to realize that times change but that people still feel as they were taught to feel. Teach us that God meets us where we are in our experiential life. Help us not to hinder the young or those who are "feasting on the milk". Help us to realize that not everyone will develop a taste for the "meat". But more than that, teach us that we should not hinder but encourage all who seek to find you in their pathway.
CANTICLE: (Hymn of Praise)
Daddy sang this as his invitation every service. "He leadeth Me".
He leadeth me O Blessed Thought, O Words with heavenly comfort fraught,
What'ere I go, where'ere I be, Still tis God's hand that Leadeth me.
He Leadeth me, he leadeth me
By his own hand, he leadeth me.
His faithful follower I would be for by his hand he leadeth me.
SERMON FOR THE DAY: (Daddy's) "Am I my Brother's Keeper?"
Text: "And the Lord said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not. Am I my brother's keeper? Genesis 4:9
Introduction: This is a practical religion. "Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." We are reminded of homeless, minorities, hungry, poor. Many are caring. But why? What is it to me?
1. Because of what will happen to us if we do not.===health, character, property.
2. Because of what will happen in us if we do not:
a. Money is not all, love for humanity is the greatest.
b. Slavery in the South, lost love for black people.
Tissot's picture about what Jesus saw from the cross. Not heaven, not angels, not music but people.
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal.
While he who walks in love may wander far
But God will bring him where the blessed are.
What is my prayer for the day?
Help me, Lord, to find my own path to worship in the love that I show to people along the way. Bring me to that place where the blessed are and help me water the garden diligently seeking to serve, rather than to expect the garden to grow unaided by my efforts. Lead me and change the course when I seek to lead in my own pathfinding.
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