The Encourager

Church of Christ

140 West 15th Street

Front Royal Virginia 22630

540 635 2613

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August 27, 2017

Sunday Service’s

Bible class 10:00 am

Worship 11:00 am

Evening 6:00 pm

Tuesday Ladies Class

11:00 am

Wednesday Service

7:00 pm

Personal Bible Study

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RSW Jail Ministry

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Minister

Stephen Smith

540-635-2613

ministerfrcoc@gmail.com

Marriage, The Divine Ideal

Genesis 2:18-25

GOD PROVIDED A "H___________" FOR MAN.

Genesis 2:18

NO S_____________ HELPER WAS F_______

Genesis 2:20

MADE IN GOD’S O_______ I__________

Genesis 1:27

Genesis 2:21-22

Steve’s Stuff

Among my many jobs starting out was as a concrete masons helper. My tasks were mixing & delivering the mortar, along with the brick/blocks & generally helping do anything he wanted.

Surely, many have had similar jobs as a helper. Occasionally, these lead to a trade, profession or occupation. More often they are entry level jobs till the more

interesting is found.

In our society “entry level” or “helper “ jobs are not considered the most pleasant & are entered in order to step up the ladder to a more “Professional” pursuit.

This is unfortunate for when we see the word “helper” in other contexts there may be a stigma associated with it. Such may have been the case in Genesis 2 where God made a Helper for Adam.

Taking their que from societies use of the word, humans have often misused others solely based on this one description of the wife.

Marriage, like the word helper has become what society wants it to be. But this was not to be the case from the beginning. The husband & wife relationship in marriage has always been a mutual helping of one another.

Come along with us as we explore the Divine Ideal this Lord’s day & spend some time learning of the marriage relationship each Sunday evening in our Christian Marriage Skills Seminar. See you There

In Need of Our Prayers & Our Benevolence Cancer Diagnosis

Blaine Tewalt

Nancy Barnes,

Ryan Denharat,

Sandy Holzhauser

Vita Torres

Roger Himelright

Viola Menefee

Jeff Pingley

Betty Martin

Wendy Willoughby

Elaine Appleton

Robert Jenkins

Ongoing Concerns

Bobby Jo Henderson

Pop Funk

Kenny Henderson Jr.

Lee Mynard

Ruth Martin

Hazel Clark

Ruth Brooks

Our missionaries.

Scott McCool

Sharon Jenkins

Sharon Derflinger

Gloria & Carson Van Arsdall

Joel Jones

Dr. Tripp Bradd

Jamie Shell

Tim Gunter

Doug Ritenour

Marty Jones

Jamie James

Fred Cooley

John Taylor

Kim Wines

Jared Hill

Our Military & First Responders

Josie Steed back in the US

&

Travis Bost Aboard USS George H.W. Bush

Ron Parks, battling cancer.

Kenny Henderson Jr.

Jeffery Kerns

Miranda & children

Sandy Flippo

Gray Carpenter

The Fallen: all who have fallen

away from the Lord.

Our nation and lawmakers

Prayers for: a successful

Marriage Seminar.

Our Homebound

Larry & Audrey Herring

John Woodall

Names On This Page Will Periodically be Removed. Please Keep Tenia

Informed as to there Condition & or Status

The Cracked Acorn

Color August 27, 2017 c.r. van arsdall

In the past I have mentioned it would be tough if you were green. I haven't seen any green people running around in the malls, maybe at Halloween time. Even Kermit the frog sang about the problems of ITS NOT EASY BEING GREEN-Having to spend each day the color of the leaves. When I think it would be nicer being red, or yellow or gold - or something much more colorful. It seems you blend in with so many ordinary things, and people tend to pass you over because you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water-or stars in the sky. Green can be cool and friendly-like. Green is big like the ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree. When green is all there it makes you wonder why, why? If you are green it will do fine. It's beautiful and it's what I want to be.

I noticed Kermit did not want to be blue!

It is a pleasing and calming color. It is the perfect tint of a clear blue sky. Looking upward you can see yourself zooming off into the blue. We wear lots of clothing in shades of blue. Uni-forms are sometimes blue. Sometime a thought can come to you "out of the blue." It can tell us someone has the "blues." A family of nobility is referred to as "blue-blooded." The Bible uses the word 50 times in reference to clothing. The nomadic Tuareg of the Sahara are often called the "blue people." Their clothing are deeply dyed with natural indigo. It is absorbed into the skin and give them a blue tinge. Babies are sometimes born with blue skin because of the indigo in their mothers' blood. (S. Thompson- internet)

In the 1800s, there was a family group in the Kentucky mountains that had a rare blood problem called methemoglobinemia referred to as met-H. The family members had a bluish cast because of reduced oxygen in the blood. Samples of their blood looked like a chocolate drink. Most of the members lived into their 80s without any serious medical problems, suggesting blue definitely will not shorten your life span. It was painful for these mountain people and they avoided clinics and hospitals. It was discovered an enzyme deficiency was the culprit

and cured by methylene blue tablets. One doctor's comment was within a few minutes the blue color was gone and for the first time in these peoples lives, they were pink. Today, with a larger population, more roads and better jobs, the blue people are hard to find. There may be some among us, but who is looking!!

ABOVE THE BRIGHT BLUE-There's a beautiful place called heaven. It is hid-den above the bright blue, Where the

good, who from earth-ties are riven, Live and love an eternity thro' This land of sweet rest awaits us, Some day it will break on our view, "Tis promised by Christ the Redeemer, To His followers faithful and true. Above the bright blue, the beautiful blue, Jesus is waiting for me and for you; heaven is there, not far from our sight, beautiful city of light. (hymn lyrics from SACRED SELECTIONS)

(We now leave the blue people of Troublesome Creek, remembering the words of Nurse Pendergrass, "They were poor people, but they were good people." from the Kentucky Journal of Clinical Investigation, 1960)

Blue is applied to the

fringes, veil, vestments,

embroideries, etc., in the

description of the ark and

tabernacle to workers in

blue, palace adornments

August 27th Server’s

and Song Leaders

Jacob Litchliter

Rex Callaway Peter Diaz AM

Bob Baleskie Jacob Litchliter PM

David Born

Canned fruit

Personal

Hygiene Items

Relay For Life

please leave items in

Blue Tote in

Front Foyer

Aluminum Cans , Ink Cartridge,

Plastic Cola Caps or Pull Taps in

Plastic bags.

September 2nd @

4:00 pm. For Jacob

and Abby’s wedding.

Guest registry on BB in foyer.

Maureen is asking for help on Aug. 31st &

Sept. 1st. See her for more details.

The Callaways 9/30

Tabitha Anderson 9/2,

Nellie Evans 9/6, Madelynn

Derflinger 9/23, Mason

Clark 9/28

New number to put in your

directory. Nellie Evans

540-409-8702

Mark your Calendar’s and Check Front Bulletin Board

Bible Bowl, September 23rd, Berkeley Springs, Church of Christ, Berkeley Springs, WV, @ 11:00 LUNCH:

Bring your favorite food.

Ladies Day, September 30th Charles Town , Church of Christ, Charles Town, WV, starts @ 9:00 Lunch will be

served. Theme “Serving God in Every Season of Life”, speaker Deirdra Miller.

Marriage Seminar, September 27th-29th, Mannington Church of Christ, Mannington, WV, Glen Colley,

speaker.

After Christian Marriage

Skills

Desserts & Finger Foods

Seminar begins @ 6:00 pm

Each Sunday Evening for 13 weeks

This relationship building information will be a great benefit for all, married or single.

Come and enjoy the fellowship and dessert afterwards.

Everyone is in a relationship, whether it be a marriage or family or job, friend or church.

Learning to deal with, and to live in, these relationships takes time, and, study and

attendance also, to accomplish making these relationship work well.

Husbands and wife’s relationship, differ say, from the family and friend relationship. It is a

skill, learning to understand how to maintain the Godly relationship within God’s

perimeters. He expects His follower’s to have an understanding and knowledge of what is

require of each other in the marriage relationship.

Above all, the most important relationship to have is with God! Once we have that

relationship established with Him! Handling the other relationships we have in our lives will

be enriched, be made stronger and last longer because of God’s love and grace given to

those whom diligently seeking Him.

It takes work to make things happen, one can not just think about having a wonderful

husband or wife relationship, but must make that relationship happen! In order for any

relationship to flourish, guidelines, goals, and boundaries must be established first. For in

setting these in the relationship each person can know what to expect when difficulties

arise. And problems will arise because life changes in stages and we must be ready to

change with life.

Tell others about this Marriage Seminar, invite them to attend on Sunday evenings at 6:00

pm.. Everyone will gain much from this relationship building Seminar.

2 Samuel 23-24 BSGFAA Lesson 161

David Numbered The People

David

Bible Quiz 1. Did Abram or did Lot take 1st pick of the lands? Which lands did Lot take? Abram? Gen 13:8-12 2. How did Jacob show his favorite son was Joseph? Gen 37:3 3. Describe Joseph’s two dreams. Gen 37:7, 9 4. What feeling did David express for his dead son Absalom? 2 Sam 18:33 5. Describe the attitude of Shimei, wh had cursed David when he was fleeing Jerusalem, as David returned. 2 Sam

19:16-20 6. What care of his body has Mephibosheth neglected while David had been away from Jerusalem? Why? 2 Sam

19:24-28 7. Sheba encouraged all Israel except ______ to follow him. 2 Sam 20:1-2 8. One of the Philistine giants, who rose up against Israel, had _______ nuber of fingers on each hand and ______

number of toes on each foot. 2 Sam 21:20 9. Who did David sing he called on when in distress? 2 Sam 22:7 10. Yes or No Did David sing he had kept the Lord’s way? 2 Sam 22:22

Additional Scriptures: 1. Promise David’s throne would last forever, 2 Sam 7:16, Fulfillment of promise, Acts 2:29-30 See L 105 2. My life should be a living sacrifice, Rom 12:1 3. Another list of David’s fighting men, 2 Sam 8:14-18 4. God’s will under the Old Law for taking a census, Exo 30:11– 16 5. From Dan to Beersheba, See Lesson 156 According to the Dictionary 6. Solomon built the temple on the place where David offered the sacrifice, 2 Chron 3:1

According to the Dictionary: 1. Burnt Offerings, All of the male animal was burned for general sin & to show dedication to God. 2. Who were Abishai, Benaiah, Gad Israel, Jehoiada Jesse, Joab, Judah & Zeruiah David, & Solomon. 3. Who were Canaanites, Egyptians, Hivites, Jacob (Israel), Jebusites, Judah, Moab & Philistines. 4. Threshing Floor, was a round, dirt area, which was made hard and flat by the trampling of oxen on stalks of grain.

This was the method used to separate the kernels of grain from the husks. 5. Fellowship Offerings (peace offerings), The fat of the male or female animal was burnt, and a fellowship meal was

eaten by the priest & otherer to symbolize fellowship between man and God. 6. Negev, is the dry area south of Judea beginning a few miles south of Hebron & estending to Kadesh-Barnea.

Questions 1. How did God speak thru David? Describe how David said a person should rule over others? 2 Sam 23:2-3 2. How long would God’s covenant with David last? 2 Sam 23:5 3. Joab said the Lord’s presence increased the number of the people _____ times. Why did Joab go out and

count the number of people in Israel? 2 Sam 24:1-4 4. Yes or No Was David glad he has numbered the people? 2 Sam 24:10 Which of the 3 choices from God,

told by Gad the prophet, did David choose? 2 Sam 24:13-15 5. Yes or No Were many men killed because of David’s sin of numbering the people? 2 Sam 24:15 6. When God was striking so many dead because of David’s numbering the people, what did Gad tell David

to do? 2 Sam 24:18 7. What did David say concerning Araunah giving him the threshing floor & other items for the burnt

offerings? 2 Sam 24:22-24

Application—

Personal Cost of Sacrifice to God,

2 Sam 24:24

1 Chronicles 22:29 BSGFAA Lesson 162

David Gave Instructions for the Temple

David

Bible Quiz 1. Yes or No Did God tell Abram his descendants would be slaves? Where? How long? Gen 15:13

2. The land which God gave Abram reached from ______ to ______ Gen 15:18

3. How did the brothers deceive Jacob about Joseph’s disappearing? Gen 37:31-33

4. Yes or No Did the people of Judah want David back as their king after Absalom’s conspiracy? 2 Sam 19:14

5. How did a wise woman keep Joab’s army from having to attack the city of Abel to get Sheba? 2 Sam 20:16-22

6. Because Saul had put the Gibeonites to death, God caused a ________ for 3 years in the days of David. What did the Gibeonites request of David of David for revenge against Saul? Why did David not turn Mephibosheth over to the Gibeonites? 2 Sam 21:1-7

7. What did David do when God had delivered him from all his enemies? 2 Sam 22:1

8. David sand he tool refuge in _______. 2 Sam 22:3

9. What did David do when God had delivered him from all his enemies? 2 Sam 22:1

10.David sand he tool refuge in _______. 2 Sam 22:3

Additional Scriptures: 1. Other examples of cooperation, Gen 11:6, Neh. 4:16-17, Mat 18:19

2. Prophecy that a descendant from Judah would rull forever, Gen 49:10, That descendant is Jesus, Mat 1:3

3. Business of Levitical priest ceased at crucifixion of Christ with all Christians becoming priest, Rev 1:6

4. Christians build on the foundation which is Jesus Christ, 1 Cor 3:10-11

According to the Dictionary: 1. Levites were a tribe which descended from Levi, one of Jacob’s 12 sons Gen 35:23, Levie’s three sons were

Gershon, Kohath & Merari Num 3:17. God set apart the firstborn from Himself when He killed all the firstborn in Egypt Exo 13:12. God took the Levites in place of the first male offspring of every Israelite woman Num 3:11-13

2. Priests under the Old Law, were from the tribe of Levi Gen 35:23, Exo 4:14. They were from the family of Aaron Exo 28:1, 29:9 and made intercession between man and God. Teir office had political overtones.

Questions 1. What materials did David gather from the building of the temple? What workman? 1 Chr 22:2-4, 14-16,

29:2-5 Yes or No Did the Israelites themselves give any gifts for the temple? With what attitude? 1 Chr 28:4

2. What did Davis say about Solomon's experience? 1 Chr 22:5, 29:1

3. Who did David tell to build a house in the name of God? 1 Chro 22:7. 28:6 Why did David himself not buld a house in the name of God? 1 Chr22:8-9, 28:3

4. Which son of Jacob was David a family member? Who did God choose as King over Israel forever? 1 Chr 28:4

5. What laws did David encourage Solmon to follow? 1 Chr 22:13, 28:9

6. For whom did David designate specific jobs? 1 Chro 23:27, Describe he way everyone would work together to successfully complete the temple. 1 Chr28:20-21

7. Yes or No Did David have a plan of the temple & its utensils to give Solomon? Where did David get the ideas for the plan? 1 Chr28:11-19

Application— Results of cooperation 1 Chr28:21