1. Face to Face with Our Savior A Scripture, Song and Prayer Service If you’re visiting with us this morning, thank you for coming today and please come back soon!

2. Face To Face With Our Savior Please take the next few moments to prepare your minds and your hearts to worship God as He deserves to be worshipped. The Scriptures and songs for this morning’s service have been chosen carefully to teach us how it will be one day when we are face to face with Christ. Please follow along with this service and be a part!

3. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:8-12 Reader: Song: #399: “Face To Face” Leader: Prayer Leader: Face to Face with Christ our Savior

4. 1 Corinthians 13:8-10 “Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.”

5. 1 Corinthians 13:11-12 “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.”

6. Song: #399: “Face To Face” Leader: Prayer Leader: Face to Face With Christ our Savior

7. Christ has promised to come back Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:8-12 Reader: Song: #350: “I Know Whom I Have Believed” Leader:

8. 2 Timothy 1:8-10 “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, 9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ,”

9. 2 Timothy 1:10-12 “who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.”

10. Christ has promised to come back Song: #350: “I Know Whom I Have Believed” Leader:

11. One Day He’s Coming! Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 1:3-10 Reader: Song: #160: “One Day” Leader:

12. 2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 “We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, 4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure”

13. 2 Thessalonians 1:5-7 “which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; 6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels”

14. 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9 “in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,”

15. 2 Thessalonians 1:10 “when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.”

16. Song: #160: “One Day” Leader: One Day He’s Coming!

17. The Master will not come back when we expect Scripture: Matthew 24:42-51 Reader: Song: #396: “We’ll Work Till Jesus Comes” Leader:

18. Matthew 24:42-44 “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

19. Matthew 24:45-48 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? 46 Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. 47 Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. 48 But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’”

20. Matthew 24:49-51 “and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, 51 and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

21. The Master will not come back when we expect Song: #396: “We’ll Work Till Jesus Comes” Leader:

22. His coming will be announced with a trumpet Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 Reader: Song: #522: “When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder” Leader:

23. 1 Corinthians 15:50-52 “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”

24. 1 Corinthians 15:53-55 “For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’ 55 ‘O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?’”

25. 1 Corinthians 15:56-58 “The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”

26. Song: #522: “When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder” Leader: His Coming will be announced with a trumpet

27. Saints and Sinners will be separated on that day Scripture: Matthew 25:31-46 Reader: Song: #283: “There’s A Great Day Coming” Leader:

28. Matthew 25:31-33 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.”

29. Matthew 25:34-36 “Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.’”

30. Matthew 25:37-39 “Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’ 40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’”

31. Matthew 25:41-43 “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’”

32. Matthew 25:44-46 “Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ 45 Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ 46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

33. Saints and Sinners will be separated on that day Song: #283: “There’s A Great Day Coming” Leader:

34. Invitation: Are you ready to see him face to face? Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Reader: Song: #28: “Is It For Me?” Leader:

35. 1 Peter 1:3-5 “ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ”

36. 1 Peter 1:6-9 “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.”

37. 1 Peter 1:6-9

38. Face To Face With Our Savior Face To Face With Christ Our Savior Face To Face With Christ Our Savior Christ Has Promised To Come Back Christ Has Promised To Come Back One Day He’s Coming One Day He’s Coming The Master Will Not Come Back When We Expect The Master Will Not Come Back When We Expect His Coming Will Be Announced With A Trumpet His Coming Will Be Announced With A Trumpet Saints And Sinners Will Be Separated On That Day Saints And Sinners Will Be Separated On That Day Are You Ready To See Him Face To Face?

39. Invitation: Are you ready to see him face to face? Song: #28: “Is It For Me?” Leader:

40. Lord’s Supper Speaker: Song Before Lord’s Supper: “O Lamb Of God” Leader: Lord’s Supper Attendants: Closing Prayer: Leader:

42. Isaiah 53:3 “He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.”

43. Isaiah 50:5-6 “ The Lord God has opened My ear; And I was not rebellious, Nor did I turn away. 6 I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting. ”

44. Song Before Lord’s Supper: “O Lamb Of God” Leader: Lord’s Supper Attendants: Closing Prayer: Leader: