The Lord’s
Day
September 6,
2009
Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my prayer
nor His lovingkindness from me.
(Psalm 66:20)
Prelude
Apostolic Greeting
*Call to Worship Psalm
37:1–6
Do not fret because of evildoers,
Be not envious toward wrongdoers.
For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.
Trust in the Lord and do
good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
Delight yourself in the Lord;
And He will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.
*Gloria
Patri No. 734
*Prayer of Invocation
*Hymn Give to Our God Immortal Praise No. 3
Public Confession
Heavenly
Father, we readily make this confession of our sin knowing that You have
provided for our forgiveness in Your own Son. Please pardon our careless and
hurtful words; please forgive us for being selfish when we should be glad to
serve one another. We ask that You would enable us to love righteousness and
truth, so that we would live honorable lives and walk as Your saints on the
earth.
Words of Assurance Romans
5:8–10
God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we
shall be saved from the wrath of God
through Him. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the
death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His
life.
Response Psalm 119X (facing page)
Prayer for the Tithe and Offerings
Collection of the Tithe and Offerings
*Doxology No.
731
*Declaring Our Faith[†] The Sacrament
of the Lord’s Supper
How are we to understand the
relationship between the food that sustains us in our earthly lives and the
bread that came down from heaven?
To support the physical and earthly life God has
prescribed for us an appropriate earthly and material bread. But to maintain
the spiritual and heavenly life that belongs to believers He has sent a living
bread that came down from heaven: namely Jesus Christ, who nourishes and
maintains the spiritual life of believers when eaten—that is, when appropriated
and received spiritually by faith.
How do the elements of the Supper
represent to us Christ and His work?
To represent to us the spiritual and heavenly
bread Christ has instituted an earthly and visible bread as the sacrament of His
body and wine as the sacrament of His blood. He did this to testify to us that
just as truly as we take and hold the sacraments in our hands and eat and drink
it in our mouths, by which our life is then sustained, so truly we receive into
our souls, for our spiritual life, the true body and true blood of Christ, our
only Savior. We receive these by faith, which is the hand and mouth of our
souls.
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 Law of God Is Good and Wise No. 150
*Public Reading of the Word The Gospel of John 1:29–51
*Prayer for the Ministry of the Word
Sermon Solomon’s
Decline 1
Kings 11:1–13
Hymn Not What My Hands Have Done No. 461
Sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper+
*Hymn Lord,
Dismiss Us with Your Blessing No. 384
*Benediction
*Threefold Amen No.
740
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