Announcements

• We will have a special meal at the church on Saturday, April 13th.  The losers in the March Penny March for Bibles (men or ladies) will bring the food, serve the meal and clean up afterwards.  The present score is four for the boys and three for the girls.  This is the last Sunday of the Penny March.
• Wednesday, April 24th, Jason Hines, missionary to Canada is scheduled to be with us.
• Antioch Baptist College Graduation at 7PM on May 20th.  Lord-willing, John Paul Nichols and Jeremiah Dixon will receive their B.A. in Biblical Education.
• King James Bible Believers’ Conference will be held at Antioch Baptist Church in Knoxville on June 10th and 11th.
• June 22nd, Everlasting Nation Fellowship.
• August 11th to 16th, Summer Revival with Ken McDonald

Church Ministry

• Pray that the Lord will provide us with a mission’s house for use with missionaries, evangelists, etc.
• Pray for the Lord to open the door for a juvenile ministry at Richard L. Bean Juvenile Detention Center.

Publications

• The last edition of “The Antioch Eagle Newsletter” was just put in the mail.  Thanks to all those who helped put it together.

Missions

March Bible Offering (Penny March in March)

• Total offering so far is about $1625.00.  We are still praying for $2000.00.  This is the last Sunday!
• Money going to this special offering may be given in three ways:
1. Special Offering Envelope
2. Wednesday Night Offering
3. Sunday Morning & Evening Penny Marches
• This will purchase about 400 Bibles in Zambia and the Philippines

Jeff and Keiko Brigham (Japan)

• A mother of some children who come to Sunday School says that they are singing about Jesus at home.  She now encourages other mothers to let their children come even though she initially opposed it.  Pray that the parents will come too.
• Other witnessing opportunities have brought interest and questions

Preaching/Teaching

• This coming week’s lesson will be “Forty Years in the Wilderness” from Numbers 14:1-45 [1] And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. [2] And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! [3] And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? [4] And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. [5] Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. [6] And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: [7] And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. [8] If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. [9] Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. [10] But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. [11] And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? [12] I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. [13] And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;) [14] And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. [15] Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, [16] Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. [17] And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, [18] The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. [19] Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. [20] And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word: [21] But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. [22] Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; [23] Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: [24] But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. [25] (Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea. [26] And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, [27] How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. [28] Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: [29] Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. [30] Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. [31] But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. [32] But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. [33] And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. [34] After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. [35] I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. [36] And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, [37] Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. [38] But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still. [39] And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly. [40] And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned. [41] And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. [42] Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. [43] For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. [44] But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. [45] Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
  See All....  The chapter can be outlined as follows:
1. The whole congregation rebels (v.1-5)
2. Joshua and Caleb speak up (v.6-10)
3. Moses intercedes for the people (v.11-20)
4. God judges the congregation (v.21-39)
5. The congregation now tries to obey (v.40-45)
• Wednesday night, Randy Williams preached from Ephesians 1:16-23 [16] Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; [17] That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: [18] The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, [19] And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, [20] Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, [21] Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: [22] And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, [23] Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
  See All... on “Paul’s Prayer for the Ephesians.”  Concerning the Ephesians, Paul prayed:
1. For a spirit of wisdom
2. For revelation in the knowledge of Him

News and Views

• All across America, the game of dodgeball is being banned from public schools.  According to the critics, dodgeball is much too individualistic and its entire purpose is to eliminate other players.  A representative of Canadian Safe School Network said, “It’s a form of legalized bullying.”  Personally, I remember dodgeball with great satisfaction.  I was not good in any sport, usually being the last or next-to-the-last one to be chosen for teams.  Even in dodgeball, my throw was not strong or accurate.  However, I found that by spending the first few minutes of the game concentrating on dodging, I could often be one of the last players in the game.  Then, I would get the balls and throw them the best I could.  I was often able to take one or two others out before I was hit.  Sometimes I made it to the last.  I think in dodgeball I began to learn that if you concentrated on your strengths and could stay with something long enough, you could still come out in the long run.  I mourn the loss of this institution in our schools—one more politically correct nail in the coffin of public education.   –David Reagan
• American pollsters are surprised at the magnitude of the spike in religious interest following the attack of September 11th.  Shortly after the attack, three-fourths of Americans thought the influence of religion was increasing.  But now, 52% think religion’s influence is decreasing.  Pollster Andrew Kohut says, “I’ve never seen such a dramatic change disappear so quickly.”
• From The Islamic Invasion by Robert Morey – “There are now more Arab Muslims in England than there are Methodists!  There are even more Muslims than there are evangelical Christians…Muslims are buying abandoned Anglican churches and turning them into mosques at such a rate that some Muslims claim that England will be the first Muslim European country.”  Question:  We have such trouble getting missionaries into Islamic countries.  Could we not profitably send them to the Muslims in England and other countries where a certain level of freedom gives us the right to witness to them?