Psalm 15
O r d e r o f W o r s h i p
Worship ~ July 3, 2022
2 PM CT
BULLETIN 7.3.2022
WORSHIP PREPARATION GUIDE
PRELUDE
Please enter the sanctuary and prepare quietly for worship. Please silence all phones and devices.
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
§GREETING, SALUTATION, AND VOTUM
Our help is in the name of the Lord, maker of heaven and Earth. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
~WORSHIP IN PRAISE~
§CALL TO WORSHIP
Psalm 100 (Responsively)
Minister:
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Serve the Lord with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
All:
Know that the Lord, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Minister:
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
All:
For the Lord is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.
All: Amen!
§PRAYER OF INVOCATION
§PSALTER All People That on Earth Do Dwell #100B
~WORSHIP IN CONFESSION~
SCRIPTURE LESSON Matthew 5:21-48
Mr. David Matzen, Ruling Elder
Jesus continues His Sermon on the Mount interpreting the true intent of the 6th, 7th, and 9th commandments, and the command to love one’s neighbor, demonstrating the inadequacy of mere external obedience, and demonstrating the internal intent of the law.
CORPORATE CONFESSION OF SIN
All: O God, may thy Spirit speak in me that I may speak to thee. I have no merit, let the merit of Jesus stand for me. I am undeserving, but I look to thy tender mercy. I am full of infirmities, wants, sin; thou art full of grace. I confess my sin, my frequent sin, my willful sin; All my powers of body and soul are defiled: a fountain of pollution is deep within my nature. There are chambers of foul images within my being; I have gone from one odious room to another, walked in a no-man’s-land of dangerous imaginations, pried into the secrets of my fallen nature. Lord, dost thou have mercy on me? Thou has struck a heavy blow on my pride, at the false god of self, and I lie in pieces before thee. But thou hast given me another Master and Lord, thy Son, Jesus, and now my heart is turned towards holiness, my life speeds as an arrow from a bow towards complete obedience to thee. Help me in all my doings to put down sin and to humble pride. Save me from the love of the world and the pride of life, from everything that is natural to fallen man, and let Christ’s nature be seen in me day by day. Forgive me, Father, and help me to walk worthy of the calling you have placed on my life I pray through Christ my Lord. Amen. (Adapted from The Valley of Vision)
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Ps. 103:12, Is. 44:22, 1 Jn. 2:1-2
Minister:
As far as the east is from the west, so far has God removed our transgressions from us. He has blotted them out as a thick cloud, buried them in the deepest part of the sea, and will remember them against us no more. He has promised that if any man sins, he has an Advocate with Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous; and he is the propitiation for our sins.
All: Amen.
CONFESSION OF FAITH The Heidelberg Catechism Q62-63
Trinity Psalter-Hymnal, p. 882
Mr. David Matzen, Ruling Elder
~WORSHIP IN GRATITUDE AND THANKSGIVING~
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Mr. David Matzen, Ruling Elder
OFFERING
§DOXOLOGY
~WORSHIP AND THE MEANS OF GRACE~
PRAYER NEEDS OF THE PERSECUTED CHURCH
The Country of Tajikistan
Dr. Lloyd Long, Ruling Elder
PASTORAL PRAYER AND LORD'S PRAYER
§HYMN My Hope is Built on Nothing Less #459
THE PREACHING OF GOD'S WORD
Rev. William F. Hill, Jr., Pastor
Scripture Reading: Psalm 15
Sermon Title: Who May Dwell with Jehovah? (Part Two)
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
§PSALTER Who, O Lord, with Thee Abiding #15B
§THE BENEDICTION 1 Corinthians 1:8
Minister:
May God sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
All: Come quickly, Lord Jesus! Amen.
§THE GLORIA PATRIA #572
All: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
POSTLUDE