Five Words Rather than Ten Thousand

Please join us for Christmas this year. Below is a listing of all our events for December. Here are our sermons to celebrate the season! Dec. 1 A Promised Gift Dec. 8 Surprise Gift Dec. 15 Parents' First Christmas Dec. 22 Our Gift Dec. 29 Thanks For The Present Dec 1-3 Special services with Deke Silverman. He will present "A Messianic View of Christmas" on Dec. 3, 6PM. Dec. 15 Come Celebrate Christmas with Saxophonist Greg Winn 6PM Dec. 18 & 22 Kids Special Dec. 20 Caroling 6PM Dec. 24 Candlelight Communion 6PM Advent candles will be lit each Sunday morning and Christmas Eve to celebrate the Advent season. Special Christmas music will be part of each service. Bethel Asssembly of God 1521 N. Norris Street Clovis NM 88101 (575) 762-4100 www.Clovisbethel.org www.christmasinclovis.com

The Last Hour 1 John

1. The Last Hour 1 John 2:18-22, 1 John 4:1-4 2 John 4 2. Congregation Reading Please stand for the reading of God’s word 3. 1/5 Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour 4. 2/5 They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us. 5. 3/5 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; 6. 4/5 this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 7. 5/5 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8. School days

overcrowded 1 John 2:15-17

1. Overcrowded 1 John 2:15–17; 24-28 2. 1 John 2:15–17 Please stand for the reading of God’s Word 3. first Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 4. next For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. 5. finish The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever. 6. Finished Let us pray! 7. Overcrowded Overcrowded classrooms Overcrowded house Overcrowded garden 8. Stop doing this! 1 John 2:15 (NASB95) 15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him 9. Stop loving the thing in the world 1. Human society organized and functioning apart from God. 2. Material objects or the things the world has to offer. 10. In the world For all that is in

1. Don’t be afraid to open the door 1 John 2:1–14 2. 1 John 2:1–14 Please stand for the reading of God’s Word 3. I read the underlined My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 4. next and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 5. next By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. 6. next The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has been perfected. 7. next By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way as He walked. 8. next Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which y

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