In Heaven, the Throne of God is not empty: He is in command! And the worship before the throne is steadfast; eternal and forever!

And we have the privilege, as God's children, to join in the throng of worshippers, to the holy throne of God and of the Lamb! Rev. chapters 4 and 5 are the Scripture passages used by Pastor Ryan for this final sermon of the series.

Romans 13, shares Pastor Ryan, exhorts all Christians of our mutual indebtedness to all to love unconditionally. We the proceed to study on the principle of neighborly service and devotion as a tangible method of worshipping our Lord. Similarities, deep and revealing, are explored between the famous parables of the Good Samaritan and the Prodigal Son in Luke chapter 10.

Suffering, like rain and sunshine, fall on the good and the evil, but the righteous suffer with hope! Pastor Symps leads us through studies in I Peter (4:12-19) and Job (1:1-22), using Scripture to help us understand how our suffering increases our dependency on God and further reveals His glory as He guides the child of God through their season of suffering.

I Corinthians 6:13 states "the body is..for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." Pastor Ryan leads us through a thorough discussion of I Corinthians 6:12-20, where Paul targets two common, frequent, and lifelong consumptions (food and sex) and exhorts believers to consecrate them always to the Lord. Indeed, our bodies, temples of the Holy Spirit, belong completely to the Lord, and the Bible indicates over and over that, unlike other religions, the body is important to God, this reality of His Will exemplified when Jesus rose in bodily form as the first fruit of resurrection glory!

From Hebrews 4:12-13 to other landmark verses, we explore the role that honoring and responding to God's Holy Word, to Jesus as Eternal Word, and the Holy Spirit's teaching of the Word has on our worship to the Father. God's Word is not outside the secular mind's frame of influence; His Word is in the center of it all - indeed, such that the frame is merely an illusion: God's role in everyday living is truly reality!

Elder Ben Fischer, who with wife Lisa coordinates our worship team ministries, blesses us today with a lesson on the importance of singing as an expression of worship. Why sing? How is it appropriate as a vehicle of worship to our Father? What does God achieve in our hearts, minds and souls by having us worship Him in song? How does the body get blessed by doing so?

Elder Ben offers us some Biblical answers to these queries.

The immersive, communal Love of the Triune God is available to us as children! The rapturous prayer from our Lord Jesus, found in John 17, declares emphatically how we are in, in IN this wondrous community of immersive love that the Trinity has had for eternity, now made available to each of us because of the work of the Lord. Pastor Ryan also shares how the Word makes clear that we are what we worship - worship idols resulting in dull, spiritless, temporary existences or worship the true God for life-giving, Christlike eternal communion with the Father and each other!

Passages from Psalm 115 and Romans chapters 1 and 12 are explored.

Our final chapter in our consideration of our God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity. God is Father, Jesus is Son, and the Holy Spirit is Love. The same Spirit that so long ago moved over the face of the waters, bringing order out of the chaotic sea, is the same Spirit Who moves in our hearts, bringing order to our chaotic souls, teaching us wha is right to love and what is loved is right. Passages from Romans, Galatians and Ephesians are explored today.

Pastor Symps preaches and teaches on the cardinal pillar of our Savior: Jesus is God!

We review the ironclad truths of Scripture that declare the eternalness and supremacy of our Christ, and worship Him for what He has done for us, and simply for Who He is: God the Son! The preeminent over all of creation!

John 1:1-18, 5:19-30 and Col. 1:15-20 are our Scripture passages for today.

Second lesson in our series, we concentrate on the Holy, wonderful and marvelous character of the Father. We look at passages that declare boldly, "God is Love".

Pastor Ryan shares from John 17 and Galatians 4 on the overwhelming attribute of our Father is BE our Father, full of love for His children, and indeed, exemplifying for all what a Father does, and Is.