Exeter Presbyterian Church
Worship Preparation for Next Sunday
Sunday: Review morning sermon (evening service @ 5pm)
Monday: Acts 2:25-33
Tuesday: 1 Samuel 18:1-16
Wednesday: 1 Samuel 18:17-30
Thursday: Psalm 16
Friday: Exodus 20:4-6
Saturday: Acts 2
Next Sunday: January 23, 2011
Preaching: Pastor Magee
Sermon text: Acts 2:25-33
Sermon title: “Immanuel Spirit” - Part 5
Music: Opening – Psalm 147
Preparation – Come, O Come, Thou Quickening Spirit 331
Response – Look, Ye Saints, the Sight Is Glorious 299
Closing – Join All the Glorious Names 301
Confession of Faith: Apostles Creed
OT Reading: Psalm 16
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
1 Samuel 18
Father God, our souls are knit to the soul of Your Son. We cast our crowns before Jesus. He is our Leader, and we follow Him with songs and dancing. Your Son has won the greatest victory for Your people. Would we be jealous of the One who has loved us with an everlasting love, and has proven His commitment to You and to us with His own blood? Would we be the murderers of Him who willingly went to the cross for our sake? But we have been treacherous against this One good Man. He came in godliness and lowliness. He was not haughty or proud. He raised Lazarus from the dead, and more than this, was demonstrated to be the very Son of God through His own resurrection to an immortal body. This is the true Son of David, and yet we have sinned against Him. We plead with You now for forgiveness. Return to us the blessings that come from knowing Jesus as our Lord and friend, and grant to us a good inheritance again in the power and holiness of Christ.
Psalm 16
O God, You are our strong hope. We thank You for Your church. We are together in Christ. We will not follow other gods. You are our portion. Our inheritance is beautiful. You are with us and our hearts are glad. You have heard the prayer of Your Holy Son. We have eternal pleasures at Your right hand forevermore.
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.
