Worship Next Sunday
February 6, 2011
Preaching: Pastor Magee
Sermon text: Acts 2:37-40
Sermon title: “Immanuel Spirit” - Part 7
Music:
Opening – Thee We Adore, Eternal Lord! 19
Preparation – We Come, O Christ, to You 181
Response – At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing 420
Closing – All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name! 297
Confession of Faith: Heidelberg Catechism
OT Reading: Zechariah 10
Preparation Guide
Sunday: Review morning sermon (evening service @ 5pm)
Monday: Acts 2:37-40
Tuesday: 1 Samuel 20:1-23
Wednesday: 1 Samuel 20:24-42
Thursday: Zechariah 10
Friday: Exodus 20:8-11
Saturday: Acts 2
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
1 Samuel 20
Father God, wicked men seek the lives of Your saints. Show us the truth. We long for the revealing of Your true Sons. Even now, let the wicked leader within Your church be exposed as faithless. Bring repentance to many as the truth is boldly preached. Godless men would consume Your people as thoughtlessly as they eat bread with their meals. They swear falsely about their affection for You and their love for Your people. They love the world only for the things that the world can give, for they only love themselves. They do not love the Son of David. Expose them for who they are. In the day of the greatest apostasy, when the man of lawlessness is shown to be who he really is, send forth Your Son again to rescue us in the fullness of resurrection power. Cast down the vile enemy from His seat of honor, where He claims to be god, and where he demands absolute obedience from slavish worshippers. This anti-Christ even now shows forth who he is in fits of anger against Your children. His end will soon come. Though He might seem to have full sway within Your church for a brief moment, Your Son will surely win the victory in the Day of His power. Until then, we swear before You that we belong to the true Son of David, and not to any servant of the father of lies.
Zechariah 10
Lord God, You bring rain and sun, even upon pagan peoples, but You care especially for Your flock. You have sent us the great Cornerstone of our salvation. He has saved us and strengthened us. He will bring us back to a safe and bountiful land, and we shall rejoice and be glad in You forever. We shall live there with our children and with all Your chosen people. You will strike down anyone or anything that could threaten us, and we shall walk in Your Name forever.
Acts 2
Great God, You have granted to Your church the promised blessing of the Holy Spirit. You have enabled us to hear the message of Your mighty works. Glory to Your Name, O God! You will pour out Your Spirit on all flesh in the age to come. That age has broken in now through Your great work of salvation. All who call upon the Name of the Lord as worshipers in the covenant assembly shall be brought from death to life. That Name above all names is Jesus, who is the Lord of Glory. He is yet alive, and so we call upon Him even now, for He is both Man and God. He is David’s Son and David’s Lord. He is our King and our Messiah. Our sins sent Him to the cross. We now repent of all known sin. We thank You for the covenant sign and seal of baptism, testifying of the life to come by the cleansing work of the Spirit and the forgiveness of sins through the blood of Christ. We give ourselves to You and to one another, as we devote ourselves to the way of worship as the community of salvation in this present age.
