NOTICES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Pastoral Bible Study will convene Tuesday, 7pm. We will be studying the call of Abraham.
• National Reports for Credential holders are due today (Elders, Ministers, Evangelists, and License Deaconesses).
• Ministers and Missionaries Alliance Institute will meet this Saturday, February 26th at 9:30 am.
• National Reports are due Wednesday, March 9th, First Church of God In Christ, 2502 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa

Sunday School Lesson

Lesson —Instruction About Worship
Lesson Scripture – I Timothy 2:1-6, 3:14-16, KJV
Commentary Focus– I Timothy 2:5, KJV

 

Thought this week: The only way to God is through Jesus.

Sunday School Lesson Commentary – Pastor Scholfield

The only way to God is through Jesus Christ — 

Down through the years I have often told my parishioners that the only way to God is by and through Jesus Christ.  This is so because the Bible tells us in a number of ways that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ.  Jesus told His disciples that He was the Way.  Not only was He the way, but He was also the Truth and the Life.  Jesus goes on to say that no one can get to the father, but by Him (John 14:6, KJV).  Then Philip, one of His other disciples, asked Jesus to show them the Father and they would be satisfied.  Jesus made it clear that if they had seen Him, they had seen the Father (John 14:8, 9).  Again the only way to God is through Jesus Christ. 

In today’s Sunday School lesson Apostle Paul talks about prayer.  He tells his protégé, Timothy, that there is only one mediator between God and men.  It is the man, Christ Jesus (1Timothy 2:5).  Paul was instructing Timothy so he could preach to others that Jesus was the only way to get to God.  Now this is important—when we pray to God it is through Jesus Christ.  Praying to anyone else and or anything else, dead or alive is futile.  The only way to get to God is through Jesus Christ.

 

Sunday Morning Messenger: Elder Elder David Myers

Message Text: St. Matthew 20: 1-14

1. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

2. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

3. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

4. And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

5. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

6. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

7. They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

8. So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

9. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

10. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

11. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,12Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

12. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

13. Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

 

Message Subject:Eleventh hour repentance