The Lord’s Day

June 10, 2007

  Prelude

  Apostolic Greeting

*Call to Worship                                                     Psalm 66:1-4

Leader: Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

Congregation: Sing the glory of His name; make His praise glorious.

Leader: Say to God, “How awesome are Your works!”

Congregation: “Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will give feigned obedience to You.”

Leader: “All the earth will worship You, and will sing praises to You”;

Congregation: “They will sing praises to Your name.”

*Gloria Patri                                                                      No. 734

*Prayer of Invocation

*Hymns                               Psalm 100B                 (facing page)

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty           No. 53

  Public Confession

We rejoice in Your goodness, O God; and we take courage in Your mercy toward us. Hear this confession of sin, we pray; and restore to us the joy of our salvation.

Forgive those unholy thoughts we conceived, thoughts that defiled our hearts. Forgive those unholy words we spoke, words that brought grief to another.

Forgive those unholy acts we committed, acts that took us far from You. We humbly make this confession through Jesus Christ, our blessed Savior.

  Words of Assurance                                            Romans 4:4-8

Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account.”

 Response                         Lead Me, Lord    (inside back cover)

  Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings

  Collection of the Tithe and Offerings

*Doxology                                                                          No. 731

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heav’nly host:

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.

*Declaring Our Faith The Larger Catechism (18-20)

What are God’s works of providence?

God’s works of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures; ordering them, and all their actions, to His own glory.

What is God’s providence towards the angels?

God by His providence permitted some of the angels, willfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, limiting and ordering that, and all their sins, to His own glory; and established the rest in holiness and happiness; employing them all, at His pleasure, in the administrations of his power, mercy, and justice.

What was the providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created?

The providence of God toward man in the estate in which he was created was the placing him in paradise, appointing him to dress it, giving him liberty to eat of the fruit of the earth; putting the creatures under his dominion, and ordaining marriage for his help; affording him communion with Himself; instituting the Sabbath; entering into a covenant of life with him, upon condition of personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience, of which the tree of life was a pledge; and forbidding to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon the pain of death.

  Pastoral Prayer

*Responsive Reading                                      Proverbs 9:10-18

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,

And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

For by me your days will be multiplied,

And years of life will be added to you.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,

And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

The woman of folly is boisterous,

She is naive and knows nothing.

She sits at the doorway of her house,

On a seat by the high places of the city,

Calling to those who pass by, who are making their paths straight: “Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”

And to him who lacks understanding she says, “Stolen water is sweet; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

But he does not know that the dead are there,

That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

  Hymn              All Ye That Fear Jehovah’s Name            No. 9

*Public Reading of the Word                             1 Corinthians 5

*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word

  Sermon                                                                                          

*Hymn                    The King of Love My Shepherd Is (following page)

  Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper⁺

*Hymn                         O Praise Ye the Lord                   No. 361

*Benediction

*Threefold Amen                                                               No. 740

* Congregation will please stand

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