Order of Worship – September 6 2020

Call to Worship: Revelation 19:6

Pastor: Then I heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude, like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, crying out,
People: “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns.
Prayer of Adoration:

Song: His Mercy Is More – CCLI# 7065053

What love could remember, no wrongs we have done
Omniscient, all-knowing, he counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more

CHORUS: Praise the Lord, his mercy is more
Stronger than darkness, new every morn
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more

What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest, the vilest, the poor
Our sins they are many, his mercy is more

What riches of kindness he lavished on us
His blood was the payment, his life was the cost
We stood ‘neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many, his mercy more

The Old Testament Lesson: Ezekiel 33:7-9

Prayer of Confession: From Psalm 32

Pastor: Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
People: For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
Pastor: I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity;
People: I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Assurance of Pardon:  Psalm 13:6

I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

The New Testament Lesson: Romans 13:1-7

Prayer for the Church:  Crawford Dillon, Ruling Elder.

The Sermon: “The Cross and Our Future.” Revelation 1:1-8. Dr. Michael Calvert, Teaching Elder.

Confession of Faith:  From the Belgic Confession

We believe, according to God’s Word, that when the time appointed by the Lord is come and the number of the elect is complete, our Lord Jesus Christ will come from heaven, bodily and visibly, as he ascended, with great glory and majesty, to declare himself the judge of the living and the dead.

*Communion:

Song: Come Thou Fount – Hymn 457 v.1-3

1 Come, thou fount of ev’ry blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace;
streams of mercy, never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
sung by flaming tongues above;
praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
mount of God’s unchanging love.

2 Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wand’ring from the fold of God:
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.

3 O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be;
let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wand’ring heart to thee.
Prone to wander – Lord, I feel it –
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
seal it for thy courts above.

The Benediction: From 2 Timothy 4:22

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen!