260524: Worship Bulletin

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4)

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The Voluntary for Silent Prayer

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. (Psalm 42:1)

*Call to Worship: Isaiah 61:10

Minister: I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;

People: my soul shall exult in my God,

Minister: for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;

People: he has covered me with the robe of righteousness.

Unison: Come, let us sing praise to our God!

*Hymn of Adoration: “His Robes for Mine” (SH No. 259)

1 His robes for mine: oh, wonderful exchange!
Clothed in my sin, Christ suffered 'neath God's rage.
Draped in his righteousness, I'm justified.
In Christ I live, for in my place he died.

Chorus
I cling to Christ and marvel at the cost:
Jesus forsaken, God estranged from God.
Bought by such love, my life is not my own.
My praise, my all shall be for Christ alone.

2 His robes for mine: what cause have I for dread?
God's daunting law Christ mastered in my stead.
Faultless I stand with righteous works not mine,
saved by my Lord's vicarious death and life.

3 His robes for mine: God's justice is appeased.
Jesus is crushed, and thus the Father's pleased.
Christ drank God's wrath on sin, then cried, "'Tis done!"
Sin's wage is paid; propitiation won.

4 His robes for mine: such anguish none can know;
Christ, God's beloved, condemned as though his foe.
He, as though I, accursed and left alone;
I, as though he, embraced and welcomed home!

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*Prayer of Adoration and Congregational Prayer

Unison: Almighty God, in your beloved Son, I am loved with an everlasting love and clothed in eternal righteousness. In Christ are peace and comfort, joy and triumph. He endured infinite anguish to secure my eternal joy. He was forsaken by his Father to make me welcome as an adopted son. He was wounded that I might be healed, tormented that I might be comforted, stripped that I might be robed in righteousness, crucified that I might live forever with you. You spared not your Son that you might spare me. Thank you! For all this, may my heart be ever filled with wonder and joy, praise and thanksgiving. In the name of Jesus I pray. Amen.

*Affirmation of Faith (Heidelberg Catechism 31)

Minister: Why is he called Christ, that is, Anointed?

People: Because he has been ordained by God the Father, and anointed with the Holy Spirit, to be our chief Prophet and Teacher, who has fully revealed to us the secret counsel and will of God concerning our redemption; our only High Priest, who by the one sacrifice of his body has redeemed us, and who continually intercedes for us before the Father; and our eternal King, who governs us by his Word and Spirit, and who defends and preserves us in the redemption obtained for us.

*Gloria (Tune: “To God Be the Glory”)

To God be the glory, great things he has done!
So loved he the world that he gave us his Son,
who yielded his life an atonement for sin,
and opened the life-gate that we may go in.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice!
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father thro’ Jesus the Son,
and give him the glory, great things he has done!

Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 53
New Testament Reading: Hebrews 12:1-3

*Hymn of Response: “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness” (TH No. 520)

1 Jesus, thy blood and righteousness
my beauty are, my glorious dress;
‘midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed,
with joy shall I lift up my head.

2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day;
for who aught to my charge shall lay?
fully absolved through these I am
from sin and fear, from guilt and shame.

3 When from the dust of death I rise
to claim my mansion in the skies,
ev’n then this shall be all my plea,
Jesus hath lived, hath died, for me.

4 Jesus, be endless praise to thee,
whose boundless mercy hath for me -
for me a full atonement made,
an everlasting ransom paid.

5 O let the dead now hear thy voice;
now bid thy banished ones rejoice;
their beauty this, their glorious dress,
Jesus, thy blood and righteousness.

The Prayers of Confession

Unison: Lord God, eternal, sovereign, immutable, holy, just, and merciful, Maker of all things by your power, Ruler of all things in your wisdom: we adore you for the wonders of creation, for the goodness of all your ways, for the perfection of your thoughts, for your saving love revealed in Jesus Christ, and for your Spirit’s living presence within us. You are worthy of all praise, O Lord most mighty and merciful, from generation to generation, for ever and ever. Amen.

Minister: Almighty God, we are unworthy of your love that you have shown to us in countless ways, and so our hearts overflow with unending thankfulness for your goodness to us.

People: We bless you for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all, for your immeasurable love to us in our redemption through Jesus Christ.

Minister: We thank you for the means of grace and for the hope of glory, and we ask that you make us ever aware of your kind mercies to us.

People: Help us to show forth your praise not only with our lips, but in our lives by giving up ourselves to your service and by walking in holiness all our days.

Minister: We belong wholly to you, bought with the precious blood of Christ, and we are dependent upon and trust you completely for our justification, sanctification, and glorification.

Unison: Hear our prayers, O Lord, and make our hearts glad that we are your children.

Silent Prayer

Pastoral Prayer

Words of Encouragement

Minister: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. (Romans 8:32-34)

People: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

*Hymn of Response: “And Can It Be” (TH No. 455)

1 And can it be that I should gain
an int’rest in the Savior’s blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain?
For me, who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

Refrain:
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

2 ‘Tis myst’ry all! Th’Immortal dies:
who can explore his strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
to sound the depths of love divine.
‘Tis mercy all! Let earth adore,
let angel minds inquire no more. [Refrain]

3 He left his Father’s throne above
(so free, so infinite his grace!),
humbled himself (so great his love!)
and bled for all his chosen race!
‘Tis mercy all, immense and free,
for, O my God, it found out me! [Refrain]

4 Long my imprisoned spirit lay
fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray;
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
my chains fell off, my heart was free;
I rose, went forth, and followed thee. [Refrain]

5 No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in him, is mine!
Alive in him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine,
bold I approach th’eternal throne,
and claim the crown, through Christ, my own. [Refrain]

Worship of God through Tithes and Offerings

*Doxology (Tune: “Lasst Uns Erfreuen”)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below; Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host:
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
O Praise Him! O Praise Him! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

*Prayer of Thanksgiving and Dedication

*Reading of The Holy Scriptures: I Peter 4:1-13

Minister: This is the Word of God.

Unison: Thanks be to God for his Word!

Sermon: “Suffering Well” (Rev. Mike Osborne)

*Hymn of Response: “Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken” (SH No. 462)

1 Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave and follow thee;
destitute, despised, forsaken, thou from hence my all shalt be.
Perish ev’ry fond ambition, all I’ve sought or hoped or known,
yet how rich is my condition: God and heav’n are still my own.

2 Let the world despise and leave me; they have left my Savior too.
Human hearts and looks deceive me; thou art not, like them, untrue.
Oh, while thou dost smile upon me, God of wisdom, love, and might,
foes may hate and friends disown me: show thy face and all is bright.

3 Man may trouble and distress me; ‘twill but drive me to thy breast.
Life with trials hard may press me; heav’n will bring me sweeter rest.
Oh, ‘tis not in grief to harm me while thy love is left to me:
oh, ‘twere not in joy to charm me, were that joy unmixed with thee.

4 Go, then, earthly fame and treasure; come, disaster, scorn, and pain;
in thy service, pain is pleasure; with thy favor, loss is gain.
I have called thee Abba, Father; I have stayed my heart on thee;
storms may howl and clouds may gather; all must work for good to me.

5 Soul, then know thy full salvation, rise o’er sin and fear and care;
joy to find in ev’ry station, something still to do or bear.
Think what Spirit dwells within thee; think what Father’s smiles are thine;
think that Jesus died to win thee- child of heav’n, canst thou repine?

6 Haste thee on from grace to glory, armed by faith, and winged by prayer.
Heav’n’s eternal days before thee; God’s own hand shall guide thee there.
Soon shall close thy earthly mission, soon shall pass thy pilgrim days;
hope shall change to glad fruition, faith to sight, and prayer to praise.

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*The Benediction

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