The Lord’s Day

October 5 , 2008

 

 

Your name, O Lord, is everlasting,

Your remembrance, O Lord, throughout all generations.

(Psalm 135:13)

 

 

 

  Prelude

 

  Apostolic Greeting

 

*Call to Worship                                          Psalm 10:16–18

The Lord is King forever and ever;

Nations have perished from His land. 

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;

You will strengthen their heart,

You will incline Your ear to vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,

So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

 

*Gloria Patri                                                             No. 734

 

*Prayer of Invocation

 

*Hymns                        Holy, Holy, Holy!                  No. 100

                     O Lord Most High, with All My Heart     No. 48

 

  Public Confession

O Lord, we thank You for the great salvation in which we stand at this hour and, with humble hearts, ask that You would forgive our many transgressions. Let us know the comfort of Your pardon in Jesus our Savior.

 

  Words of Assurance                                           Isaiah 55:7

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         As the Hart Longs for Flowing Streams        (facing page)

 

  Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings

 

  Collection of the Tithe and Offerings

 

*Doxology                                                                 No. 731

 

*Declaring Our Faith          The Scots Confession (The Incarnation)

When the fullness of time came God sent His Son, His eternal wisdom, the substance of His own glory, into this world, who took the nature of humanity from the substance of a woman, a virgin, by means of the Holy Ghost. And so was born the “just seed of David,” the “Angel of the great counsel of God,” the very Messiah promised, whom we confess and acknowledge to be Emmanuel, true God and true man, two perfect natures united and joined in one person.

 

  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        The Heavens Declare Your Glory, Lord No. 138

 

*Public Reading of the Word                                      Titus 2

 

*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word

 

  Sermon                                                  Matthew 26:14–29

 

  Hymn      I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art       No. 168

 

 

 Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper+

 

*Hymn     I Know That My Redeemer LivesGlory, Hallelujah!     No. 281

 

*Benediction

 

*Threefold Amen                                                      No. 740

 

* Congregation will please stand

+ Visitors: please see the note on the back of this bulletin