Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
From Exodus 15:1-3, 18, 21
I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
Men: The LORD is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.
Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
Women: This is my God, and I will praise him,
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
All: The LORD is a man of war;
the LORD is his name.
The LORD will reign forever and ever.
Our Sung Call to Worship
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
Based on The New City Catechism (Q/A 6), Romans 3:23, Jeremiah 2:13; Psalm 62:8, Matthew 22:37-39; Romans 3:10
How can we glorify God?
We glorify God by enjoying him,
loving him, trusting him,
and by obeying his will, commands, and law.
Have you glorified God perfectly?
No, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Have you enjoyed God perfectly?
No, for we have committed two evils:
We have forsaken God,
the fount of living waters,
And dug our own cisterns,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Have you loved God perfectly?
No, we have not loved God with our whole heart;
we have not loved our neighbor as ourselves.
Have you trusted God perfectly?
No we have not trusted in him at all times;
we have not poured out our heart before him;
we have not sought God as our refuge.
Have you obeyed God perfectly?
No, for there is none righteous, not even one.
TIME OF SILENT CONFESSION
Our Sung Confession
Poor Sinner Dejected with Fear
Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Remember the Gospel
Based on The New City Catechism (Q/A 6), Romans 3:24-25; Colossians 3:3-4 (CSB17)
If you have failed to glorify God,
then how can you be right with God?
I am justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
How can this be?
God presented him
as an atoning sacrifice in his blood,
received through faith.
What happened when you received his sacrifice through faith?
I died.
So then, do you have no life?
My life is hidden with Christ in God.
What does this mean for your future?
When Christ, who is my life appears,
then I also will appear with him in glory.
Our Sung Profession of Assurance
O Christ My Life – new song, no music video available at this time
Thanksgiving and Petition
We Give Thanks in Prayer and Offer Petitions to God
We express our gratitude to God our Father for Christ’s work on the cross for us and bring our requests before him. In bringing our requests, we confess that we believe God truly is a good father, who cares about our needs and gives us what he knows is best.
We Give Thanks by Giving
We give financial offerings to support the work of the church because of our gratitude to God. By giving we confess we are trusting in God’s provision for us as well.
On the first Sunday of each month we have two offerings—one for the general fund and a second one for the benevolence ministry of our church.
We Give Thanks in Song
Show Us Christ
Scripture Reading
Luke 11:14-28 (ESV)
14 Now he was casting out a demon that was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke, and the people marveled. 15 But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of demons,”16 while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 18 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. 19 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are safe; 22 but when one stronger than he attacks him and overcomes him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoil. 23 Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
24 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.”
27 As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” 28 But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
This is the Good News of Jesus.
O come, let us adore him!
Sermon
Luke 11:14-28 – Blessed Are Those Who Hear and Obey the Word of God – Pastor Michael Felkins
Sending
Having heard and confessed the Gospel, we are sent into the world on mission in Christ, which we express in both song and spoken word.
Sending Song
For the Cause
Prayer for the Mission Team
Blessing
Based on Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Christ.
Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name
of the Father
and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey
everything he has commanded you.
And surely he is with you always,
to the very end of the age.