The Lord’s Day
June 7, 2009
Be exalted above the heavens, O God; let
Your glory be above all
the earth.
(Psalm 57:5)
Prelude
Musical Offering Make a Joyful Noise
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm
118:14–16
The Lord is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation.
The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the
righteous;
The right hand of the Lord
does valiantly.
The right hand of the Lord is
exalted;
The right hand of the Lord
does valiantly.
*Gloria
Patri No.
734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymn This Is the Day the Lord Has Made No.
389
Public Confession
We confess
that You are the God of all creation and that You are the One Who heals our
souls when we are in distress. O Lord,
have mercy now on Your people. Forgive us for our transgressions; still our
every sorrow. Let all praise and glory come from our lips to You and You alone.
Words of
Comfort and Assurance Isaiah
35:8–10
A highway will
be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean
will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools
will not wander on it. No lion will be there, nor will any vicious beast go up
on it; these will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there, and the
ransomed of the Lord will return
and come with joyful shouting to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads.
They will find gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
Response Who Trusts in God, a Strong Abode (facing page)
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No.
731
*Declaring Our Faith[†] Sanctification
What happens when we have true faith?
We believe that this true faith, produced in man by the
hearing of God’s Word and by the work of the Holy Spirit, regenerates him and
makes him a “new man,” causing him to live the “new life” and freeing him from
the slavery of sin.
How does our
faith affect us?
Far from making
people cold toward living in a pious and holy way, this justifying faith so
works within them that apart from it they will never do a thing out of love for
God but only out of love for themselves and fear of being condemned.
Is it possible for true faith to be unfruitful?
It is impossible for this holy faith to be unfruitful in
a human being, seeing that we do not speak of an empty faith but of what
Scripture calls “faith working through love,” which leads a man to do by
himself the works that God has commanded in His Word.
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 Blessed Are the Undefiled No. 557
*Public Reading of the Word The Revelation of Jesus Christ 1
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon Solomon’s Ascension (part 3) 1 Kings 2
Hymn We Have not Known Thee as We Ought No. 493
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper+
*Hymn Faithful to All Generations (following page)
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No.
740
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