The Lord’s Day
August 5, 2007
Prelude
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm 84:8-11
Minister: O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Congregation: Give ear, O God of Jacob!
Minister: Behold our shield, O God,
Congregation: And look upon the face of Your anointed.
Minister: For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
Congregation: I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Minister: For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord gives grace and glory;
Congregation: No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
*Gloria Patri No. 734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymns O Lord of Hosts, How Lovely the Place No. 371
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise No. 38
Public Confession
All: We thank You, Father in heaven, for the gift of salvation. We thank You for saving our souls and for putting us on the pathway of truth and righteousness.
Forgive us, therefore, when we speak or act as if we do not love Your Word or desire to live by it. Forgive us for thinking wrongly of ourselves and others. Forgive us for misjudging Your works and the ministry of the Spirit who dwells in all of us.
Cause our selfishness to be overcome by charity. Cause our love for truth to grow day by day and our attraction to sin to be put to death in our Savior.
Children: Heavenly Father, forgive us when we have been slow to obey. And forgive us when we have been selfish. Cause us to love others as You love us.
Words of Assurance Colossians 3:1-3
If you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Response Let Us Praise God Together No. 659
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No. 731
*Declaring Our Faith The Larger Catechism (38-40)
Why was it necessary that the Mediator should be God?
It was necessary that the Mediator should be God, that He might sustain and keep the human nature from sinking under the infinite wrath of God, and the power of death; give worth and efficacy to His sufferings, obedience, and intercession; and to satisfy God’s justice, procure His favor, purchase a peculiar people, give His Spirit to them, conquer all their enemies, and bring them to everlasting salvation.
Why was it necessary that the Mediator should be man?
It was necessary that the Mediator should be man, that He might advance our nature, perform obedience to the law, suffer and make intercession for us in our nature, have a fellow feeling of our infirmities; that we might receive the adoption of sons, and have comfort and access with boldness unto the throne of grace.
Why was it necessary that the Mediator should be God and man in one person?
It was necessary that the Mediator, who was to reconcile God and man, should Himself be both God and man, and this in one person, that the proper works of each nature might be accepted of God for us, and relied on by us, as the works of the whole person.
Pastoral Prayer
*Responsive Reading The Law of God
Then 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. You shall have no other gods before Me.”
For us there is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him. (1 Corinthians 8:6)
“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”
Little children, guard yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:21)
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.”
“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name.’” (Matthew 6:9)
“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 of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.”
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God. For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. (Hebrews 4:9, 10)
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
Children, be obedient to your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. (Colossians 3:20)
“You shall not murder.”
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Romans 13:8, 9)
“You shall not commit adultery.”
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:4)
“You shall not steal.”
Let him who steals steal no longer; but rather let him labor, performing with his own hands what is good, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need. (Ephesians 4:28)
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”
Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. (Ephesians 4:25)
“You shall not covet.”
Do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. (Ephesians 5:3)
*Hymn Though I May Speak No. 597
*Public Reading of the Word 1 Corinthians 13
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon Matthew 10:1-15
Hymn Man of Sorrows! No. 246
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper+
*Hymn Come, Christians, Join to Sing No.302
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No. 740
* Congregation will please stand
+ Visitors: please see the note on the back of this bulletin