The Lord’s
Day
April 26, 2009
The Lord of hosts is with us; the God
of Jacob is our stronghold.
(Psalm 46:11)
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 Before Jehovah’s Awesome Throne No. 65
Public Confession
O Lord, please forgive the thoughts we have
had that were formed in malice instead of kindness. Forgive the words we have
spoken that revealed hardness of heart instead of gentleness. And forgive our
conduct that was contrary to Your holy will. This we ask in Christ’s name.
Words of
Comfort and Assurance Isaiah 55:6, 7
Seek the Lord while He may be
found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the
unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him, and to our God, for
He will abundantly pardon.
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 Recovery of Fallen Man
How did God respond to fallen man’s condition?
We believe that our good God, by His marvelous wisdom and
goodness, seeing that man had plunged himself into both physical and spiritual
death and made himself completely miserable, set out to find him, though man,
trembling all over, was fleeing from Him.
What promise did God make to fallen man?
He comforted him
and promised to give him His Son, “born of a woman,” to crush the head of the
serpent, and to make him blessed.
Pastoral Prayer
*Responsive
Reading Psalm 37:16–22
Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord sustains the righteous.
The Lord knows the days of
the blameless,
And their inheritance will be forever.
They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.
But the wicked will perish;
And the enemies of the Lord
will be like the glory of the pastures, they vanish—like smoke they vanish
away.
The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and gives.
For those blessed by Him will inherit the land,
But those cursed by Him will be cut off.
*Hymn Blessed Are the Sons of God No. 526
*Public Reading of the Word 1 John 3
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon Life After
the Resurrection Col. 3:1–11 (pt. 2)
Hymn Let Thy Blood in Mercy Poured No. 429
Sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper+
*Hymn And Can It Be That I Should Gain No. 455
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No. 740
* Congregation will please stand
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