The Lord’s
Day
August 2, 2009
Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
my lips will praise You.
(Psalm 63:3)
Prelude
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm
146:1–6
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!
I will praise the Lord while
I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.
Do not trust in princes,
In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
His spirit departs, he returns to the earth;
In that very day his thoughts perish.
How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his
God,
Who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them;
Who keeps faith forever.
*Gloria
Patri No. 734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymns Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah, O My Soul No. 57 Give Praise to God (facing page)
Public Confession
Heavenly
Father, You alone are God. You are holy in all Your ways, and Your words are
righteous. We confess to You that we have fallen short of Your standard in our
speech and conduct. Even in our thoughts, O Lord,
we have sinned against You. Please forgive us and restore the joy of our
salvation. We ask this in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Words of Assurance John
5:24
Jesus said:
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent
Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of
death into life.”
Response Praise Jehovah, All Ye Nations (following)
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No.
731
*Declaring Our Faith[†] The Government of the
Church
What do we believe about the government of the church?
We believe that this true church ought to be governed
according to the spiritual order that our Lord has taught us in His Word. There
should be ministers or pastors to preach the Word of God and administer the
sacraments. There should also be elders and deacons, along with the pastors, to
make up the council of the church.
What primary
benefits are provided by the government of the church?
By this means
true religion is preserved; true doctrine is able to take its course; and evil
men are corrected spiritually and held in check, so that also the poor and all
the afflicted may be helped and comforted according to their need.
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 Forever Settled in the Heavens No. 59
*Public Reading of the Word The
Revelation of Jesus Christ 16
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon Solomon’s Prayer 1 Kings 8:22–53
Hymn From
Out the Depths I Cry, O Lord, to Thee No. 552
Sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper+
*Hymn O Lord,
by Grace Delivered No. 626
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No.
740
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