This Year’s Theme: Devoted Christian Living and Fruitful Growth

Summer Conference Theme: Don’t Be A Baby All Your Life

Winter Camp Theme: Calling to Repent and Return

Greatly Blessed, Highly Favored, Imperfect But Forgiven Child of God.

John 1:12 (New Living Translation)But to all who believed him and

accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

He’s Still Workin’ On Me

He’s still workin’ on me, To make me what I ought to be;It took Him just a week To make the moon and stars,The sun and the earth and Jupiter and MarsHow loving and patient He must be!He’s still workin’ on me!

Verse 1There really ought to be a sign upon my heart;“Don’t judge him/her yet, There’s an unfinished part.’But I’ll be perfect just according to His planFashioned by the Master’s loving hand.

Verse 2In the mirror of His words, Reflections that I’ve seen,Makes me wonder why He never gave-up on meHe loves me as I am, and helps me when I prayRemember He’s the potter I’m the clay!

Ecclesiastes 11:9 (New International Version)

You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give

you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and

whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you

into judgment.

(3) Hypocritical Worship: Contempt of Offering (Malachi 1:6-14)

1. God’s Proclamation: Rebukes to the priests (1:6a)2. People’s Retort: Denial of the rebukes (1:6b-7a)3. God’s Evidence : Contempt of Offering (1:7b-8)

Worship – is our response to what we value most

Worship – from the word “worth” Means “worthy”. God is worthy to be praise and glorify.

In worship we give God the glory and praise that He is worthy of. Not for us but for God.

Honor – giving the person the proper importance, their proper weight of authority

Despise - look down on something as if it is worthless.

The word “defiled, profane” and “holiness” are cleverly put together- they are antonyms.

Holiness -distinct, set apart, separate to God.

Defile -common, profane, separated from the sanctuary or from God.

Profane - to treat or make as common (English “profane” means outside the temple), ordinary, the word is the antonym of “holy.”

Contempt – the feeling one has towards someone or something he considers low, worthless, despised.

(4) Leaders Who Break the Covenant: Priests who Show Partiality (Malachi 2:1-9)

1. Curses for breaking the covenant (2:1-4)2. Promise and requirements of the covenant (2:5-7) 3. Rebuke for breaking the covenant (8-9)

Blessing “to bless,” – enrichment : physically, spiritually, materially

Curse - to ban someone, that is, to remove the person from the place of blessing, or remove the blessing.

Covenant – an agreement

Rebuke - for God to rebuke something means to change it, stop it, replace it .

Treachery - a willful betrayal of confidence, trust or truth.

(5) The People Who Profane the Covenant: The Rebellion of God’s Chosen People (Malachi 2:10-19)

1. Contempt of the offering : From the priests to the people (1:6-14)

2. Profanation of the covenant: From the priests to the people (2:1-16)

3. Deceitful deeds : First to God (1:14), then to their brothers (2:10), last to their wives (2:11-16)

Unfaithfulness 1: breaking faith with one another (2:10)Unfaithfulness 2: marrying the daughter of a foreign god (2:11- 12) Unfaithfulness 3: divorcing and treating their wives with violence

(2:13-16)

1. Contempt of the offering : From the priests to the people (1:6-14)

2. Profanation of the covenant: From the priests to the people (2:1-16)

3. Deceitful deeds : First to God (1:14), then to their brothers (2:10), last to their wives (2:11-16)

Unfaithfulness 1: breaking faith with one another (2:10)

Unfaithfulness 2: marrying the daughter of a foreign god (2:11- 12) Unfaithfulness 3: divorcing and treating their wives with violence

(2:13-16)

Conclusion(Video)

I will sing of your love on Sundays,Only sing of your love on Sundays.I will sing of your love on Sundays,And this feeling is gone by Monday.

I surrender some, I surrender some,Jesus I will give you little, I surrender some.

I stand amazed at my hair doMy stylist outdid herselfI lift my hands and see my nails They match my eyes oh so well.

I could sing of Your love forever,I could sing of Your love forever,I could sing of Your love forever,I could sing of Your love forever.

I surrender all, I surrender all,All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.

I stand amazed in the presenceOf Jesus the Nazarene,And wonder how He could love me,A sinner condemned, unclean.

Wrong Worship Actual Lyrics

How great is this song, Sing with me, How great is this song, Man I love to sing, To sing this song.

Savior, I don't need a savior, I'm busy living my life, busy living my life; Christmas, Go to church on Christmas, And maybe Easter too, So my faith is renewed.

How great is our God, Sing with meHow great is our God, And all will see, How great, how great is our God

Savior, He can move the mountainsMy God is mighty to saveHe is mighty to saveForeverAuthor of SalvationHe rose and conquered the graveJesus conquered the grave

Wrong Worship Actual Lyrics

Wrong Worship

I’ve sung this song for years, It's now standard here, but I still sing it, Though I don’t mean it.And I just go, go through the motions,And I fake the emotions.

I exalt me, I exalt me, I exalt me, Only me, praise me.

This is the air I breathe,This is the air I breathe,Your holy presence Living in meAnd I’m desperate for youAnd I’m I’m lost without you

I exalt You, I exalt You, I exalt You, Only You.

Actual Lyrics

Worship must be honest and spiritual, the worshipers must put their heart into it and offer to God the best that they have, and the best that they can do. To get to this point they have to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord so that they will appreciate more who he is and what he had done. The greater the knowledge of the object of worship, the greater the worship. But if people do not venture there in their faith, but live selfish and self-indulgence lives, then the worship will be a drudgery and their gifts perfunctory and worthless.

James 4:17 (New International Version)If anyone, then, knows the good they ought

to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

Galatians 1:10 (New International Version)Am I now trying to win the approval of

human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Psalm 66:18 (New International Version)If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord

would not have listened;

I Worship You(I give You all the honour)

I give You all the honourAnd praise that due Your nameFor You are the King of gloryThe Creator of all things

And I worship YouI give my life to YouI fall down on my kneesYes, I worship YouI give my life to YouI fall down on my knees

As Your Spirit moves upon me nowYou meet my deepest needAnd I lift my hands up to Your throneYour mercy I've received

You have broken chains that bound meYou've set this captive freeI will lift my voice to praise Your nameFor all eternity