260301: Worship Bulletin

Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he. (Zechariah 9:9)

Prelude

Welcome and Announcements

The Voluntary for Silent Prayer

*Call to Worship: Psalm 47

Minister: Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

People: For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth….

Minister: God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

People: Sing praises to God, sing praises!

Minister: Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

Unison: For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!

*Hymn of Adoration: “Come, Christians, Join to Sing” (SH No. 5)

1 Come, Christians, join to sing, alleluia, amen!
Loud praise to Christ our King, alleluia, amen!
Let all, with heart and voice, before his throne rejoice;
praise is his gracious choice, alleluia, amen!

2 Come, lift your hearts on high, alleluia, amen!
Let praises fill the sky, alleluia, amen!
He who made all things well formed us his praise to tell;
hear now the anthem swell, alleluia, amen!

3 Sing this salvation song, alleluia, amen!
Christ on the cross has won, alleluia, amen!
Praise we the risen Lord; come, run through mercy's door;
loved, rescued, and restored, alleluia, amen!

4 Lift high the Savior's name, alleluia, amen!
Till all the earth proclaims, alleluia, amen!
Let now the gospel ring, Christ for the world we sing;
the world to Christ we bring, alleluia, amen!

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*Prayer of Adoration and Congregational Prayer

Unison: O Lord, we come into your presence with thanksgiving, for you are a great God and a great King above all gods. In your hands are the depths of the earth; the mountain peaks belong to you. The sea is yours, for you made it, and your hands formed the dry land. Almighty Creator, we worship you. We kneel before you, Jehovah our Maker. For you are our God, and we are your people of your pasture, the flock under your care. We come to you in the name of Jesus, our Savior. Amen.

From Psalm 95

*Affirmation of Faith: Apostles’ Creed

Minister: Christian, what do you believe?

People: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.

I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, from whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

*Gloria Patri (Tune: “Gloria Patria, Greatorex”)

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen.

The Revelation of God’s Will: Ex. 20:1-17; Mt. 22:37-40

Unison: “And God spoke all these words saying: ‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Minister: You shall have no other gods before me.

People: You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.

Minister: You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

People: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Minister: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

People: You shall not murder.

Minister: You shall not commit adultery.

People: You shall not steal.

Minister: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

People: You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’”

Unison: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul, mind and strength…and your neighbor as yourself.”

Hymn of Response: “We Have Not Known Thee As We Ought” ( TH No. 493, Tune: St. Catherine)

1 We have not known thee as we ought,
nor learned thy wisdom, grace and pow'r;
the things of earth have filled our thought,
and trifles of the passing hour.
Lord, give us light thy truth to see,
and make us wise in knowing thee.

2 We have not feared thee as we ought,
nor bowed beneath thine awful eye,
nor guarded deed, and word, and thought,
remembering that God was nigh.
Lord, give us faith to know thee near,
and grant the grace of holy fear.

3 We have not loved thee as we ought,
nor cared that we are loved by thee;
thy presence we have coldly sought,
and feebly longed thy face to see.
Lord, give a pure and loving heart
to feel and own the love thou art.

4 We have not served thee as we ought;
alas! the duties left undone,
the work with little fervor wrought,
the battles lost, or scarcely won!
Lord, give the zeal, and give the might,
for thee to toil, for thee to fight.

5 When shall we know thee as we ought,
and fear, and love, and serve aright!
When shall we, out of trial brought,
be perfect in the land of light!
Lord, may we day by day prepare
to see thy face, and serve thee there.

Corporate Confession

Unison: Almighty and most merciful God and Father: we have erred and strayed from your ways; like lost sheep we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts; we have offended against Your holy laws; we have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. But You, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders; spare those, O God, who confess their faults; restore those who are penitent according to Your promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord; and grant, O merciful Father, for His sake, that we may hereafter live a godly, sober and righteous life to the glory of Your holy Name and the salvation of our own souls. Amen.

Silent Confession

Pastoral Prayer

Assurance of Pardon

Unison: I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation; He has covered me with the robe of righteousness. Thanks be to God!
Isaiah 61:10

*Hymn of Thanksgiving: “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” (SH No. 10)

1 Come, thou Fount of ev'ry blessing; tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it, mount of thy redeeming love.

2 Hitherto thy love hath blessed me; thou hast brought me to this place;
and I know thy hand will lead me safely home by thy good grace.
Jesus sought me when a stranger wand'ring from the fold of God.
He, to rescue me from danger, interposed his precious blood.

3 Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wand'ring heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love;
here's my heart, Lord, take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above!

4 Oh, that day when, freed from sinning, I shall see thy lovely face;
full arrayed in blood-washed linen, how I'll sing thy sov'reign grace!
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry, bring thy promises to pass;
for I know thy pow'r will keep me till I'm home with thee at last!

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Worship of God through Tithes and Offerings

*Doxology (Tune: “Old Hundredth”)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

*Prayer of Thanksgiving and Dedication

*Reading of The Holy Scriptures: Matthew 24:29-35

Minister: This is the Word of God.

Unison: Thanks be to God for his Word!

*The Prayer for Illumination

Sermon: “The Return of the King: Part One” (Pastor Seth Wallace)

*Hymn of Response: “It Is Well with My Soul” (TH No. 691)

1 When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll;
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
"It is well, it is well with my soul."

Refrain:
It is well with my soul;
it is well, it is well with my soul.

2 Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control,
that Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
and has shed his own blood for my soul. [Refrain]

3 My sin– O the bliss of this glorious thought!–
my sin, not in part, but the whole,
is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more;
praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul! [Refrain]

4 O Lord, haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
the clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
the trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend;
"Even so"– it is well with my soul. [Refrain]

*The Benediction

Postlude

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