July 25, 2021

Order of Worship

Sunday, July 25, 2021

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Gathering the Family Together

Psalm 63 B                                                                 Blue Psalter, pg 389

O God, You Are My God Alone

O God, you are my God alone, whom eagerly I seek,

Though longing fills my soul with thirst and leaves my body weak.

Just like a dry and barren land awaits a freshening shower,

I long within your house to see your glory and your power.

Your faithful love surpasses life, evoking all my praise.

Through every day, I bless your name, my hands in joy I’ll raise.

My deepest needs you satisfy as with a sumptuous feast.

So, on my lips and in my heart, your praise has never ceased.

Throughout the night I lie in bed and call you, Lord, to mind;

In darkest hours I meditate how God, my strength, is kind.

Beneath the shadow of your wing, I live and feel secure;

And daily as I follow close, your right hand keeps me sure.

Words: The Iona Community © 1993 Wild Goose Resource Group, Iona Community, Scotland, GIA Publications, Inc. Music: © Mary Kay Beall 1991 Hope Publishing Company.

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                                            Psalm 19:7-14

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

⁸ the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

⁹ the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.

¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

¹¹ Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.

¹³ Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe:

The Law of the Lord

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul,

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Refrain:     More to be desired are they than gold

Yea than much fine gold

Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart,

The commandments of the Lord are pure, enlight’ning the eyes.

Repeat Refrain

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever,

The judgments of the Lord are fine, and righteous altogether

Repeat Refrain

Moreover by them, is Thy servant warned,

And in keeping of them, there is great reward.

Repeat Refrain.

©1983 Sound III, Inc. All Rights Reserved. CCLI #172212

We Respond to God’s Presence

God and Man at Table Are Sat Down

V1 – Solo:          Oh, welcome, all ye noble saints of old

As now before your very eyes unfold

The wonders all so long ago foretold.

Congregation:    God and man at table are sat down. (Repeat)

V2 - Duet:          Elders , martyrs all are falling down.

Prophets, patriarchs are gath’ring ‘round.

What angels longed to see now man has found.

Congregation:    God and man at table are sat down. (Repeat)

V3 – Singers:      Who is this who spreads the vict’ry feast:

Who is this who makes our warring cease;

Jesus, Risen Savior, Prince of Peace.

Congregation:    God and man at table are sat down. (Repeat)

V4 – Singers:      Beggars, lame, and harlots also here,

Repentant publicans are drawing near.

Wayward sons come home without a fear.

Congregation:    God and man at table are sat down. (Repeat)

V5 – All:             Worship in the presence of the Lord.

With joyful songs and hearts in one accord,

And let our Host at table be adored.

Congregation:    God and man at table are sat down. (Repeat)

V6 – All:             When at last this earth shall pass away;

When Jesus and His bride are one to stay;

The feast of love is just begun that day.

God and man at table are sat down. (Repeat this line.)

©Copyright 1977 Dawn Treader Music   (Admin. by Capitol CMG Publishing)

Red Hymnal #376 + additional verses                                                      

Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!

He, Whose Word cannot be broken, formed thee for His own abode.

On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose?

With salvation’s walls surrounded, Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.

See! the streams of living waters, springing from eternal love;

Well supply thy sons and daughters, and all fear of want remove:

Who can faint while such a river ever flows their thirst t’assuage?

Grace, which like the Lord, the Giver, never fails from age to age.

Round each habitation hovering, see the cloud and fire appear!

For a glory and a cov’ring showing that the Lord is near.

Thus deriving from our banner light by night and shade by day;

Safe they feed upon the manna which He gives them when they pray.

Savior, if of Zion’s city, I through grace a member am,

Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in Thy name.

Fading is the worldling’s pleasure; all his boasted pomp and show.

Solid joys and lasting treasure, none but Zion’s children know.

Lyrics: John Newton; Music: Franz Joseph Haydn

Christ Our Hope in Life and Death

Congregation:    What is our hope in life and death?
Christ alone, Christ alone.
What is our only confidence?
That our souls to Him belong.

Jubilee Singers: Who holds our days within His hand?
What comes, apart from His command?
And what will keep us to the end?

Congregation:    The love of Christ, in which we stand.

Refrain:

All:                     O sing hallelujah! Our hope springs eternal.
O sing hallelujah! Now and ever, we confess
Christ our hope in life and death.

Piano Side:         What truth can calm the troubled soul?
God is good, God is good.

Organ Side:        Where is His grace and goodness known?
In our great Redeemer’s blood.

Jubilee Singers: Who holds our faith when fears arise?
Who stands above the stormy trial?
Who sends the waves that bring us nigh unto the shore?

Congregation:    The rock of Christ!

Refrain:

All:                     O sing hallelujah! Our hope springs eternal.
O sing hallelujah! Now and ever, we confess
Christ our hope in life and death.

Congregation:    Unto the grave, what shall we sing?
“Christ, He lives; Christ, He lives!”

Jubilee Singers: And what reward will heaven bring?

Congregation:    Everlasting life with Him.
There we will rise to meet the Lord,
then sin and death will be destroyed,
and we will feast in endless joy,
When Christ is ours forevermore.

Refrain:

All:                     O sing hallelujah! Our hope springs eternal.
O sing hallelujah! Now and ever, we confess
Christ our hope in life and death.

Words and Music by Keith Getty, Matt Boswell, Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker and Matt Papa ©2020 Getty Music Publishing (BMI) Messenger Hymns/ Matthew Merker Music (BMI)/ Jordan Kauflin Music (BMI)/ Getty Music Hymns and Songs (ASCAP)/Love Your Enemies Publishing (ASCAP)

Children’s Sermon

“You are not your own, for you were bought with a price so glorify God in your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:19,20)

Pastoral Prayer:

The basket to receive His tithes and our offerings

is located on the left as you leave the Sanctuary.

We Worship Through Hearing

Sermon Hymn:                                                                                         

Psalm 119:17-24 (Gimel)

Grant me understanding, that I may live.

¹⁷ Deal bountifully with your servant, *

so that I may live and observe your word.

¹⁸ Open my eyes, so that I may behold *

wondrous things out of your law.

Grant me understanding, that I may live.

¹⁹ I live as an alien in the land; *

do not hide your commandments from me.

²⁰ My soul is consumed with longing *

for your ordinances at all times.

Grant me understanding, that I may live.

²¹ You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, *

who wander from your commandments;

²² take away from me their scorn and contempt, *

for I have kept your decrees.

Grant me understanding, that I may live.

²³ Even though princes sit plotting against me, *

your servant will meditate on your statutes.

²⁴ Your decrees are my delight, *

they are my counselors.

Grant me understanding, that I may live.

Today’s Message

Sermon Series: The ABCs of God’s Word

Please “Gimel” Us Wondrous Words to Walk In

Psalm 119:17-24

Notes

1. Ask God to help you __________ His Word     (Psalm 119:17-18)

2. Ask God to help you stay _____________      (Psalm 119:19-20)

3. Ask God to help you when others ______ you    (Psalm 119:21-24)

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

Red Hymnal #546

We Are God’s People

We are God’s people, the chosen of the Lord,

Born of His Spirit, established by His Word;

Our cornerstone is Christ alone, And strong in Him we stand:

O let us live transparently, And walk heart to heart and hand in hand.

We are God’s loved ones, the Bride of Christ our Lord,

For we have known it, the love of God outpoured;

Now let us learn how to return The gift of love once given;

O let us share each joy and care, And live with a zeal that pleases Heaven.

We are the Body of which the Lord is Head,

Called to obey Him, now risen from the dead;

He wills us be a family Diverse yet truly one;

O let us give our gifts to God, And so shall His work on earth be done.

We are a Temple, the Spirit’s dwelling place,

Formed in great weakness, a cup to hold God’s grace.

We die alone, for on its own Each ember loses fire;

Yet joined in one the flame burns on

To give warmth and light, and to inspire.

©1976 by Fred Bock Music. Co. ARR. CCLI#172212

Benediction