Sermon 4th Feb 2024 11am gathering

We have recorded our talk in case you missed it or want to listen again.

Here is the OOS together with our bible reading. Please do get in touch with us if you need prayer for anything at all.
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Worship Outline – Sunday 4th February 2024 11am
video: Fingerprints
Songs:
- Every Giant will Fall
- Lord I lift your name up high

Welcome and Notices

All Age Activity
Pray for Children as they go out

Extended worship:
- We are here for you
- Praise is Rising
- Adoration (we bow our hearts)

Readings Daniel 3: 3 1-3; 8-18

Talk (including Videos 2 Videos (North Korea and Top 5 2024)

Ministry time/prayers song:
- Consuming Fire (There must be more than this)
- Lord I need you

Communion
Songs during communion: Jesus Christ (Once Again)
Prayer After Communion

Blessing

Reading(s):

Daniel 3: 3 1-3; 8-18

To help us understand: a satrap was a governor of a province

King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue whose height was sixty cubits and whose width was six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent for the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counsellors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, to assemble and come to the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 3 So the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counsellors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces, assembled for the dedication of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. When they were standing before the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. . .

Continuing from verse 8 . . .
8 Accordingly, at this time certain Chaldeans came forward and denounced the Jews. 9 They said to King Nebuchadnezzar, ‘O king, live for ever! 10 You, O king, have made a decree, that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, shall fall down and worship the golden statue, 11 and whoever does not fall down and worship shall be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire. 12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These pay no heed to you, O king. They do not serve your gods and they do not worship the golden statue that you have set up.’
13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in furious rage commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought in; so they brought those men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar said to them, ‘Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods and you do not worship the golden statue that I have set up? 15 Now if you are ready when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, well and good.[a] But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?’
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, ‘O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to present a defence to you in this matter. 17 If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire and out of your hand, O king, let him deliver us.[b] 18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods and we will not worship the golden statue that you have set up.’