Glencairn Baptist Church
Sunday Worship Service / DVBS Graduation
Join us for our special Daily Vacation Bible School Graduation Service
Locations & Times
Glencairn Baptist Church
713 Glencairn Ave, Toronto, ON M6B, Canada
Sunday 10:30 AM
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The Men's Ministry will have their monthly fellowship today immediately following the worship service.
TOPIC: Disciplines of a Godly Man
TOPIC: Disciplines of a Godly Man
The Ladies' Ministry will be holding their annual Ladies Retreat from Sept. 2 – 4 at Riverview Christian Camp.
This year's theme is "Disciplines of A Godly Woman."
For more info, please see Sis. Tess Valledor or Sis. Wilma Baday.
This year's theme is "Disciplines of A Godly Woman."
For more info, please see Sis. Tess Valledor or Sis. Wilma Baday.
Our annual Youth Camp is being held from Sept. 1 – 4, 2017 at Upper Canada Camp in Palgrave.
This year's theme is "Counter-Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age."
Young people who will be participating can register online. The cost for registration is $100. For more information please see Bro. Joshua Del Rosario.
This year's theme is "Counter-Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age."
Young people who will be participating can register online. The cost for registration is $100. For more information please see Bro. Joshua Del Rosario.
More Announcements
All auxiliary ministries are requested to hold elections for their 2018 Officers by the end of September. The deadline for the submission of the 2018 Proposed Budget will be on October 15, 2017.
The election for the 2017 Committee on Election will be held shortly. Please submit your nominations for the members of the 2017 COMELEC on the sheet provided in the foyer. For any questions, please see Pastor Sonny.
Our church is launching the GBC Food Pantry as a part of our Ministry that seeks to help others by sharing our abundant blessings with God’s people that are in need. Our Food Pantry is accepting canned goods and non perishables. We are also accepting personal hygiene items for men and women, cleaning supplies and toiletries.
Please join our Weekly Prayer Fellowship every Wednesday at 7:00pm. We are currently in the study of the Book of Romans. The second part of the fellowship is devoted to prayer.
Please join our weekly Adult Sunday School Classes every Sunday at 9:30am. The Tagalog Class is currently taking up the book of Philippians and the English Class has started a new book on Christian living. Please approach Bro. Gary Ubando or Bro. Alex San Juan for the adult English class and Bro. Ramir Carandang or Bro. Eugene Daylusan for the Tagalog class.
Come and join the Youth Ministry every Friday for a night of fellowship, food, and a challenge from God’s word as they explore together what it means to be disciples of Jesus.
OTHER FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES:
Sept 1–4 Youth Camp
Sept 2–4 Ladies' Retreat
The election for the 2017 Committee on Election will be held shortly. Please submit your nominations for the members of the 2017 COMELEC on the sheet provided in the foyer. For any questions, please see Pastor Sonny.
Our church is launching the GBC Food Pantry as a part of our Ministry that seeks to help others by sharing our abundant blessings with God’s people that are in need. Our Food Pantry is accepting canned goods and non perishables. We are also accepting personal hygiene items for men and women, cleaning supplies and toiletries.
Please join our Weekly Prayer Fellowship every Wednesday at 7:00pm. We are currently in the study of the Book of Romans. The second part of the fellowship is devoted to prayer.
Please join our weekly Adult Sunday School Classes every Sunday at 9:30am. The Tagalog Class is currently taking up the book of Philippians and the English Class has started a new book on Christian living. Please approach Bro. Gary Ubando or Bro. Alex San Juan for the adult English class and Bro. Ramir Carandang or Bro. Eugene Daylusan for the Tagalog class.
Come and join the Youth Ministry every Friday for a night of fellowship, food, and a challenge from God’s word as they explore together what it means to be disciples of Jesus.
OTHER FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES:
Sept 1–4 Youth Camp
Sept 2–4 Ladies' Retreat
Sermon — Do good, seek peace and go after it!
Our annual DVBS was held and completed last week. For today’s service, we will join the organizers, teachers and their children in celebration by witnessing the DVBS graduation for all the different age groups that participated in our DVBS this year.
Our annual DVBS was held and completed last week. For today’s service, we will join the organizers, teachers and their children in celebration by witnessing the DVBS graduation for all the different age groups that participated in our DVBS this year.
The main slogan of this week’s DVBS is the title of our message this morning, “Do good, seek peace and go after it!” This slogan is taken from our text in Psalm 34. Notice that from verse 1 to verse 14, the word “fear” is mentioned five times.
Even though the same word is used five times, there are two kinds of fear mentioned in these verses — the “fear” in verse 4 is one kind of fear and the “fear” in verses 7, 9 and 11 is another kind of fear.
In verse 4 the object of fear that David is referring to is his fear of Saul — his fear of man.
The other four times fear is mentioned in Psalm 34 refers to David’s fear of God. It is David’s fear of God that drove or propelled him to “Do good, seek peace and go after it!”
The other four times fear is mentioned in Psalm 34 refers to David’s fear of God. It is David’s fear of God that drove or propelled him to “Do good, seek peace and go after it!”
Fear of God is the main reason why this year’s DVBS focuses on heroes and how heroes are those who possess wisdom, power, courage, hope and heart.
What does it mean for a Christian to fear God?
What does it mean for a Christian to fear God?
In verse 12, Paul is concluding his statements in the previous verses which focus on how Christians ought to have the same mind, same love and be in full accord and with one mind.
The mind — the way of thinking — that Paul was referring to is that of humility, thinking of others as more significant than ourselves and thinking of the interests of others not just our own.
The mind — the way of thinking — that Paul was referring to is that of humility, thinking of others as more significant than ourselves and thinking of the interests of others not just our own.
This way of thinking originates in Christ, who through His humility counted us to be more significant than Himself, offering Himself as a sacrifice in order to pay the debt that we cannot pay for ourselves.
In verse 12, Paul says, “...work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”
What does this mean? It does not mean that we can work for our salvation because Paul just finished telling us that the way we were saved is through faith in the work of Christ on the cross.
So when Paul says “work out” he means that living a Christian life involves real effort on our part — not that we work to earn or accomplish our salvation, but that for our salvation to become evident in all areas of our lives, there is some real effort involved.
What does this mean? It does not mean that we can work for our salvation because Paul just finished telling us that the way we were saved is through faith in the work of Christ on the cross.
So when Paul says “work out” he means that living a Christian life involves real effort on our part — not that we work to earn or accomplish our salvation, but that for our salvation to become evident in all areas of our lives, there is some real effort involved.
In one sense our salvation is complete, because Jesus completed the work on the cross, but in another sense our salvation is in the process of completion because we are still being continually changed from glory to glory each and every day of our lives.
Note that we should work out our “own” salvation. We should not go on judging where others are in their Christian walk — that’s God’s job because He is the only one who can see their hearts.
We should concern ourselves with our own walk first, so we can be of help to others. When Paul, in the first part of Philippians 2, says that we should think of other first, he does not mean that we should neglect ourselves in the process. For us to be of help and a blessing to others, we need to “work out” our own salvation to be evident in all areas of our lives.
We should concern ourselves with our own walk first, so we can be of help to others. When Paul, in the first part of Philippians 2, says that we should think of other first, he does not mean that we should neglect ourselves in the process. For us to be of help and a blessing to others, we need to “work out” our own salvation to be evident in all areas of our lives.
Paul also says that making our salvation evident in our lives can only happen “with fear and trembling.” Paul says this in relation to humility, equating the fear of God to humbling ourselves before God. Without the fear of God, we will end up trying to do the work of sanctification on our own, which will surely lead to failure, because we don't have the power to accomplish God's work — only God has the power to do that.
So what does it mean for a Christian to fear God?
To fear God is to humble ourselves before Him. To see Him as great and powerful and to be convinced that we cannot do anything without Him. To fear God is to know that He alone can accomplish the work that our faith in Christ began in us and to live in the wisdom that God provides in order to make our faith in Christ evident in the way we live our lives.
To fear God is to humble ourselves before Him. To see Him as great and powerful and to be convinced that we cannot do anything without Him. To fear God is to know that He alone can accomplish the work that our faith in Christ began in us and to live in the wisdom that God provides in order to make our faith in Christ evident in the way we live our lives.
Fear of God is an intense faith — an intense conviction of the reality of God in our lives. This begins with faith in Christ, who is God incarnate and through the help of the power from the Holy Spirit, this faith will continue to grow in intensity so much that the invisible God becomes visible through us who believe and fear Him.
It is this intense kind of faith that will enable us to obey in humility. This is the kind of faith that we need to teach our children. Our children need to see God, with fear and trembling, and for their faith to grow into a fear of God, they need to continue to know and learn more about how awesome and powerful God really is and how much His love for them is seen on the cross of Christ.
This is the kind of faith that will help them keep their tongues from evil and their lips from speaking deceit. This is the kind of faith that will enable them to turn away from evil and do good; to seek peace and go after it. This is the kind of faith that will give them wisdom, power, courage, hope and heart as they grow up to become heroes of faith for our Lord Jesus Christ.
It is this intense kind of faith that will enable us to obey in humility. This is the kind of faith that we need to teach our children. Our children need to see God, with fear and trembling, and for their faith to grow into a fear of God, they need to continue to know and learn more about how awesome and powerful God really is and how much His love for them is seen on the cross of Christ.
This is the kind of faith that will help them keep their tongues from evil and their lips from speaking deceit. This is the kind of faith that will enable them to turn away from evil and do good; to seek peace and go after it. This is the kind of faith that will give them wisdom, power, courage, hope and heart as they grow up to become heroes of faith for our Lord Jesus Christ.