Announcements

• WORSHIP FOR 9/13

  Forgiving as the Lord Forgives Us.  In settling His accounts with us, our Lord acts not with anger, but with compassion. He does not imprison us as we deserve, but He forgives all our debts and releases us (Matthew 18:23-27). Therefore, our Lord bids each of us to have “mercy on your fellow servant” and “forgive your brother from your heart” (Matthew 18:33, 35). By the Lord’s forgiveness of our sins, we are free to forgive those who sin against us, because He has been handed over to the jailers in our stead, and He has paid our entire debt with His lifeblood. Whether we live or die, we “are the Lord’s” (Romans 14:8). Since we all will “stand before the judgment seat of God,” we are not to despise our brother (Romans 14:10), but gladly forgive him. By the grace of God, our brother also “will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand” (Romans 14:4). Though we daily sin against each other, the Lord intends “to bring it about that many people should be kept alive” (Genesis 50:20). Jesus speaks kindly by His Gospel and promises: “I will provide for you and your little ones” (Genesis 50:21).

• ADULT BIBLE CLASS ON GENESIS

  

  According to Genesis 1:29 it seems that originally humans were herbivores, eating only vegetables. But, according to Genesis 9:3 after the Flood the Lord changed the human diet to allow humans to be omnivores, eating both vegetables and meat.  Why this change in the human diet?  What’s the connection to the Flood?  Stay for Adult Bible Class after worship Sunday in the Fellowship Hall as we look at these questions in our study of Genesis—Book of Beginnings.