The Lord’s
Day
April 18, 2010
Praise the Lord! For it is
good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and praise is becoming.
(Psalm 147:1)
Prelude
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm
100
Shout joyfully to the Lord,
all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness;
come before Him with joyful singing.
Know that the Lord Himself is
God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and
His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him, bless His name.
For the Lord is good; His
lovingkindness is everlasting
And His faithfulness to all generations.
*Gloria
Patri No. 734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymn Psalm
98A (pp. 4, 5)
Public Confession
Heavenly
Father, we confess that we have not always behaved as saints in our words and
deeds. We have not spoken with grace, as we are commanded. We have not kept our
minds pure. For these things, we ask forgiveness. For our weaknesses, we ask
for strength.
Words of
Comfort and Assurance Colossians
3:4-7
When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed
with Him in glory. Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead
to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to
idolatry. For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come
upon the sons of disobedience, and in them you also once walked, when you were
living in them.
Response Thou Art the Way (facing page)
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No.
731
*Declaring
Our Faith[†] The Catechism of the Church in Geneva
When
we pray, should we have confidence that God hears us?
The foundation
of our prayer should always be that the Lord will hear us, and that we shall
obtain whatever we ask, in so far as is for our good. For this reason Paul
tells us that true prayer flows from faith.
What about those who are uncertain
whether their prayers will be heard by God?
Their prayers are vain and void, not being
supported by any promise. For we are ordered to ask with sure faith, and the
promise is added, that whatever we shall ask, believing, we shall receive.
Are
we to pray in the name of Christ only?
Yes,
it
is commanded and the promise is added that He will by His intercession obtain
what we ask.
Pastoral Prayer
*Responsive
Reading Psalm
54
Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your power.
Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life; they have not set God before them.
Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
He will recompense the evil to my foes;
Destroy them in Your faithfulness.
Willingly I will sacrifice to You;
I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord,
for it is good.
For He has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.
*Hymn Jesus, Lover of My Soul No. 508
*Public Reading of the Word The Gospel of John 17:1–26
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon The Doctrine of Salvation: Justification ( part 1)
Rom.
5:18, 19; Gal. 3:10ff.; Col. 2:13, 14; Rom. 8:1, 2; etc.
Sacrament
of Baptism Lilly
Reagan Verduin
Hymn Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me No. 500
Sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper+
*Hymn Fountain of Never-Ceasing Grace No. 519
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No.
740
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