The Lord’s Day

February 1, 2009

Let our sons in their youth be as grown-up plants, and our daughters as corner pillars fashioned as for a palace;

let our garners be full, furnishing every kind of produce, and our flocks bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.

(Psalm 144:12, 13)

Prelude

Apostolic Greeting

*Call to Worship Psalm 56:11–13

In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.

What can man do to me?

Your vows are binding upon me, O God;

I will render thank offerings to You.

For You have delivered my soul from death, indeed my feet from stumbling,

So that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

*Gloria Patri No. 734

*Prayer of Invocation

*Hymn Psalm 148 (facing page)

Public Confession

Our Father in heaven, we acknowledge You as the only true God. We confess to You that we have sinned by not keeping Your holy Word this past week. Allow us to repent of our transgressions, O Lord, and restore to us the joy of our salvation. We make this plea in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Words of Assurance 1 Corinthians 1:26–29

For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, so that no man may boast before God.

Response Searcher of Hearts (page 4)

Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings

Collection of the Tithe and Offerings

*Doxology No. 731

*Declaring Our Faith² The Doctrine of God

What do we believe and confess concerning God?

We believe and confess that there is a single spiritual being, whom we call God—eternal, incomprehensible, invisible, unchangeable, infinite, almighty; completely wise, just, and good, and the source of all good.

By what means do we know God?

First, by the creation, preservation, and government of the universe, since that universe is before our eyes like a beautiful book in which all creatures, great and small, are as letters to make us ponder the invisible things of God: His eternal power and His divinity.

Second, He makes Himself known to us more openly by His holy and divine Word for His glory and for the salvation of His own.

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 That Man Is Blest Who, Fearing God No. 558

*Public Reading of the Word 1 Peter 1

*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word

Sermon James 1:2–18 (part 2)

Hymn The King of Love My Shepherd Is (page 5)

Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper^

Sacrament of Baptism

*Hymn O Christ, Our Hope, Our Heart’s Desire No. 161

*Benediction

*Threefold Amen No. 740

* Congregation will please stand

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