The Lord’s Day

July 20, 2008

Those who trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

(Psalm 125:1)

  Prelude

  Apostolic Greeting

*Call to Worship                                           Psalm 97:9-12

You are the Lord Most High over all the earth;

You are exalted far above all gods. 

Hate evil, you who love the Lord, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones;

He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. 

Light is sown like seed for the righteous

And gladness for the upright in heart. 

Be glad in the Lord, you righteous ones,

And give thanks to His holy name.

*Gloria Patri                                                             No. 734

*Prayer of Invocation

*Hymn                               Psalm 148                       (page 4)

  Public Confession

We come before You this day, O God, to confess our transgressions. Though we desire to walk before You in righteousness every day, we must admit that we have stumbled at times. We confess that we have sometimes used Your gift of speech to tear down rather than build up and encourage. We confess that we have sometimes repaid Your amazing mercy with selfishness toward others. We confess that we have not always used the time You provide for profitable things. Please forgive our sins and grant to us the assurance of our salvation.

  Words of Assurance                                    1 John 3:23, 24

This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

  Response          Blessed the Man That Fears Jehovah (facing page)

  Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings

  Collection of the Tithe and Offerings

*Doxology                                                                 No. 731

*Declaring Our Faith The Larger Catechism (191)

What do we pray for in the second petition?

In the second petition (which is: Thy kingdom come), acknowledging ourselves and all mankind to be by nature under the dominion of sin and Satan, we pray that the kingdom of sin and Satan may be destroyed, the gospel propagated throughout the world, the fullness of the Gentiles brought in; we pray that the church will be furnished with all gospel officers and ordinances, purged from corruption, countenanced and maintained by the civil magistrate; that the ordinances of Christ may be purely dispensed, and made effectual to the converting of those that are yet in their sins, and the confirming, comforting, and building up of those that are already converted; that Christ would rule in our hearts here, and hasten the time of His second coming, and our reigning with Him forever; and that He would be pleased so to exercise the kingdom of His power in all the world as may best conduce to these ends.

  Pastoral Prayer

*Responsive Reading                                Proverbs 28:15-28

Like a roaring lion and a rushing bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood will be a fugitive until death;

Let no one support him.

He who walks blamelessly will be delivered,

But he who is crooked will fall all at once.

He who tills his land will have plenty of food,

But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

A faithful man will abound with blessings,

But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.

To show partiality is not good,

Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth

And does not know that want will come upon him. 

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

He who robs his father or his mother and says, “It is not a transgression,” is the companion of a man who destroys.

An arrogant man stirs up strife,

But he who trusts in the Lord will prosper.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,

But he who walks wisely will be delivered.

He who gives to the poor will never want,

But he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;

But when they perish, the righteous increase.

*Hymn       Lord, with Glowing Heart I’d Praise Thee  No. 80

*Public Reading of the Word                             1 Timothy 1

*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word

  Sermon                                     Matthew 19:16-30 (part 3)

  Hymn      O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High!      No. 155

  Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper⁺

*Hymn            Christ, of All My Hopes the Ground     No. 518

*Benediction

*Threefold Amen                                                      No. 740

* Congregation will please stand

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