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2/12/2023 Worship Service, Sermon & Lord's Supper from Brick Lane Community Church in Elverson, PA.

Worship Leader: Tyler Estes
Sermon: Steve Estes
Lord's Supper: Rich Goswiller

Order of Worship:

- Call to Worship
- Congregational Song: "O Splendor of God's Glory Bright" #58
- Prayer of Confession
- Congregational Song "Lord, Have Mercy"
- Assurance of Pardon
- Congregational Song: "Before the Throne of God Above"
- Prayer of Thanksgiving
- Scripture
- Congregational Song: "A Mighty Fortress is our God"
- Prayer of Supplication
- Sermon
- The Lord's Supper: "Lord, Have Mercy"; "Rejoice, the Lord is King" #310

Scripture: Matthew 16:24-27
Title: Living By Dying
Speaker: Steve Estes

Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done."

Notes:

1. Christ invites people to follow him by suffering with him
A. An unusual sales job
B. "Deny himself"
C. Take up one's cross

2. What taking up our cross looks like
A. Lesser deaths
B. Greater deaths

3. By embracing Christ's cross, I will find my life
A. "Will find his life" in this world
B. Transition: But horrific things happen here on earth
C. "Will find his life" in the world to come

4. By refusing Christ's cross, I will lose my life
A. Great temptation to "save" it
B. "Will lose one's life" in this world
C. "Will lose one's life" in the world to come