Download: Readings and Song Lyrics for September 27, 2026
Pre-service Song
Here is Love Vast As the Ocean
Here is love, vast as the ocean, lovingkindness as the flood:
When the Prince of Life, our ransom, shed for us his precious blood.
Who His love will not remember? Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten throughout heav’n’s eternal days.
On the mount of crucifixion, fountains opened deep and wide.
Through the floodgates of God’s mercy flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers, poured incessant from above.
Heaven’s peace and perfect justice kissed a guilty world in love.
On the morn of resurrection, mercy filled the thirsty grave;
Where the stone of death burst open, springs of life flowed unrestrained.
Love no heart could ever measure, joy no sorrows will outrun,
Rush upon the soul believing in the risen, reigning Son.
Oh, this love, vast love of Jesus, bids us come and drink and live.
To this weary world of longing, what more could our Savior give?
Now to Christ who fully loved us, and who freed us from our sin,
Be all glory and dominion, everlasting praise to him.
Words by William Rees, Matt Boswell, Keith Getty, and Kristyn Getty, Music by Robert Lowry
© 2024 Getty Music Publishing; Messenger Hymns
Call To Worship
We confess the supremacy of God in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Call to Worship
Psalm 121 (ESV)
I lift up my eyes to the hills.
From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot be moved;
he who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper;
the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun shall not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all evil;
he will keep your life.
The Lord will keep
your going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.
Our Sung Call to Worship
Build My Life
Worthy of every song we could ever sing.
Worthy of all the praise we could ever bring.
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe.
We live for You.
Jesus, the name above every other name.
Jesus, the only one who could ever save.
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe.
We live for You. We live for You.
Chorus
Holy, there is no one like You.
There is none beside You.
Open up my eyes in wonder.
And show me who You are
and fill me with Your heart.
And lead me in Your love to those around me.
Jesus, the name above every other name.
Jesus, the only one who could ever save.
Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe.
We live for You. We live for You. (Chorus)
I will build my life upon Your love;
It is a firm foundation.
And I will put my trust in You alone,
and I will not be shaken. (Repeat)
Holy, there is no one like You.
There is none beside You.
Open up my eyes in wonder.
And show me who You are
and fill me with Your heart.
And lead me in Your love to those around me.
I will build my life upon Your love;
It is a firm foundation.
And I will put my trust in You alone,
and I will not be shaken.
By Brett Younker, Karl Martin, Kirby Kaple, Matt Redman & Pat Barrett
© 2016 Kaple Music; Capitol CMG Genesis; Housefires Sounds; Said And Done Music; sixsteps Music; Thankyou Music Ltd; Vamos Publishing; worshiptogether.com songs; Martin, Karl Andrew; Bethel Music Publishing
Confession
We confess our need for mercy through both responsive reading and song.
Our Spoken Confession
Psalm 25:6-8, 11, 16-18 (ESV)
Remember your mercy, O LORD,
and your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
For your name’s sake, O LORD,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
bring me out of my distresses.
Consider my affliction and my trouble,
and forgive all my sins.
Time of silent confession.
Our Sung Confession
Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy
Come, ye sinners, poor and needy,
Weak and wounded, sick and sore;
Jesus ready stands to save you,
Full of pity, love, and pow’r.
Chorus
I will arise and go to Jesus,
He will embrace me in His arms;
In the arms of my dear Savior,
O there are ten thousand charms.
Come, ye thirsty, come, and welcome,
God’s free bounty glorify;
True belief and true repentance,
Ev’ry grace that brings you nigh. (Chorus)
Come, ye weary, heavy laden,
Lost and ruined by the fall;
If you tarry till you’re better,
You will never come at all. (Chorus)
Let not conscience make you linger,
Nor of fitness fondly dream;
All the fitness He requireth
Is to feel your need of Him. (Chorus)
Words by Joseph Hart Music: Walker’s Southern Harmony, 1835
©Public Domain
Assurance and Peace
We profess our assurance of salvation and peace in Christ through both responsive reading and song.
Remember the Gospel
Galatians 3:10-13; 2:20; 6:14 (ESV)
Remember the Gospel!
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law,
and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”
I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
But far be it from me to boast
except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by which the world has been crucified to me,
and I to the world.
Our Sung Profession of Assurance
Christ is Mine Forevermore
Mine are days that God has numbered;
I was made to walk with Him.
Yet I look for worldly treasure
and forsake the King of kings.
But mine is hope in my Redeemer—
though I fall His love is sure!
For Christ has paid for every failing;
I am His forevermore!
Mine are tears in times of sorrow,
darkness not yet understood.
Through the valley, I must travel
where I see no earthly good.
But mine is peace that flows from heaven
and the strength in times of need.
I know my pain will not be wasted—
Christ completes His work in me.
Mine are days here as a stranger,
pilgrim on a narrow way.
One with Christ, I will encounter
harm and hatred for His name.
But mine is armour for this battle,
strong enough to last the war.
And He has said He will deliver
safely to the golden shore.
And mine are keys to Zion city,
where beside the King, I walk.
For there my heart has found its treasure—
Christ is mine forevermore.
Come rejoice now, O my soul,
for His love is my reward!
Fear is gone, and hope is sure—
Christ is mine forevermore. (Repeat)
And mine are keys to Zion city,
where beside the King, I walk.
For there my heart has found its treasure—
Christ is mine forevermore.
Christ is mine forevermore.
Christ is mine forevermore.
By Jonny Robinson and Rich Thompson
© 2016 CityAlight Music
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.
You may give electronically at gabcames.org/giving/ or place your offering in the boxes at the back of the sanctuary or send a check in the mail.
Scripture Reading
Psalm 52 and 53 (ESV)
Psalm 52 (ESV)
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come
to the house of Ahimelech.”
1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2 Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.
5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous shall see and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”
8 But I am like a green olive tree
in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
forever and ever.
9 I will thank you forever,
because you have done it.
I will wait for your name, for it is good,
in the presence of the godly.
Psalm 53 (ESV)
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath.
A Maskil of David.
1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity;
there is none who does good.
2 God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,
who seek after God.
3 They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
4 Have those who work evil no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?
5 There they are, in great terror,
where there is no terror!
For God scatters the bones of him
who encamps against you;
you put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.
6 Oh, that salvation for Israel
would come out of Zion!
When God restores the fortunes
of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
This is the word of the Lord.
The grass withers and the flower falls
but the word of the Lord endures forever.
Sermon
Psalm 52 & 53 – Whose Voice Are You Listening To? – Pastor Michael Felkins
Sermon Discipleship Questions
1. What encouraged you?
2. What convicted you?
3. Is there anything in your life that needs to change?
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
I Surrender All
All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.
Chorus
I surrender all,
I surrender all;
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow;
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me, Jesus, take me now. (Chorus)
All to Jesus I surrender,
Make me, Savior, wholly thine;
Let me feel Thy Holy Spirit,
Truly know that Thou art mine. (Chorus)
All to Jesus I surrender,
Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love and power,
Let thy blessing fall on me. (Chorus)
All to Jesus I surrender,
Now I feel the sacred flame.
O the joy of full salvation,
Glory, glory to His name. (Chorus)
Words by Judson W. Van DeVenter, Music by Winfield S. Weeden
©Public Domain
Blessing
2 Thessalonians 3:5 (ESV)
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God
and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Amen.
Scripture text for next Sunday: Psalm 54 & 55