Mattoon East Side Church of the Nazarene

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceIsaiah 53:4-6Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceIsaiah 53:1-3 The Sin-Bearing Messiah1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 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.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceIsaiah 52:13-15The Sin Bearing Servant13 Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.14 Just as many were astonished at you,So His visage was marred more than any man,And His form more than the sons of men;15 So shall He sprinkle many nations.Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;For what had not been told them they shall see,And what they had not heard they shall consider.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture reference Matthew 3:1-2 John the Baptist Prepares the Way In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceMatthew 3:1-2John the Baptist Prepares the Way3 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”Matthew 4:17 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”Matthew 9:1313 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Dan TaylorScripture ReferenceLuke 5:15-1615 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. 16 And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.Psalm 1421 I cry aloud to the Lord;    I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.2 I pour out before him my complaint;    before him I tell my trouble.3 When my spirit grows faint within me,    it is you who watch over my way.In the path where I walk    people have hidden a snare for me.4 Look and see, there is no one at my right hand;    no one is concerned for me.I have no refuge;    no one cares for my life.5 I cry to you, Lord;    I say, “You are my refuge,    my portion in the land of the living.”6 Listen to my cry,    for I am in desperate need;rescue me from those who pursue me,    for they are too strong for me.7 Set me free from my prison,    that I may praise your name.Then the righteous will gather about me    because of your goodness to me.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceEphesians 2:1-2; John 6:44, 65Ephesians 2:1-2And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,John 6:44No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.John 6:65And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceJohn 16:5-115 “But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me;” 10 of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceJohn 3:1616 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.2 Peter 3:99 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.Romans 10:1313 For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Morning Worship Sermon with Rev. Bud HanceScripture referenceLuke 15:11-1611 Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. 13 And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. 14 But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want. 15 Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. 16 And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.