The Lord’s Day
May 10, 2009
God reigns over the nations,
God sits on His holy throne.
(Psalm 47:8)
Prelude
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm
105:1–4
Oh give
thanks to the Lord, call upon His
name;
Make known His deeds among the peoples.
Sing to
Him, sing praises to Him;
Speak of all His wonders.
Glory in
His holy name;
Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad.
Seek the
Lord and His strength;
Seek His face continually.
*Gloria
Patri No.
734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymn Sing to the Lord, Sing His
Praise No. 62
Public Confession
Dear Lord, You have revealed Yourself as the
only true God and as our God. You have also called us to be a holy people.
Therefore, heavenly Father, we confess that we have been overcome by temptation
and have sinned against You. Our hope is in Your mercy extended to us in Jesus
Christ. In His name, knowing that He gave Himself for us, we ask Your
forgiveness.
Words of
Comfort and Assurance Hebrews
2:17, 18
Therefore, He
had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a
merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make
propitiation for the sins of the people. For since He Himself was tempted in
that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are
tempted.
Response Psalm 136B (facing page)
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No.
731
*Declaring Our Faith[†] The Natures of Christ
If Jesus Christ is the God-Man, is He, therefore, two persons?
We believe that the person of the Son has been
inseparably united and joined together with human nature, in such a way that
there are not two Sons of God, nor two persons, but two natures united in a
single person, with each nature retaining its own distinct properties.
What, in particular, do we believe concerning Christ’s human nature?
His human nature has not lost its properties but
continues to have those of a creature. And even though He, by His resurrection,
gave it immortality, that nonetheless did not change the reality of His human
nature; for our salvation and resurrection depend also on the reality of His
body.
Pastoral Prayer
*Responsive
Reading Psalm
37:23–34
The
steps of a man are established by the Lord,
And He delights in his way.
When he
falls, he will not be hurled headlong, because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.
I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen
the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread.
All day
long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.
Depart
from evil and do good,
So you will abide forever.
For the Lord loves justice and does not forsake
His godly ones;
They are preserved forever, but the descendants of the
wicked will be cut off.
The righteous
will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
The mouth of the righteous
utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
The law of his God is in his heart;
His steps do not slip.
The wicked spies upon the righteous and seeks to kill him.
The Lord will not leave him
in his hand or let him be condemned when he is judged.
Wait for the Lord and keep
His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land;
When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
*Hymn God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength No. 40
*Public Reading of the Word 1
John 5
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon The Beginning of Solomon’s Reign 1 Kings 1 (cont’d)
Sacrament of Baptism Cooper
& Carson Phillips
Hymn Let Children Hear the Mighty Deeds No. 364
Sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper+
*Hymn Blessed
the Man That Fears Jehovah (following page)
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No. 740
* Congregation will please stand
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