Worship Next Sunday
February 20, 2011
Preaching: Pastor Magee
Sermon text: Acts 2:43-47
Sermon title: “Immanuel Spirit” - Part 9
Music:
Opening – I Greet Thee Who My Sure Redeemer Art 168
Preparation – Breath on Me, Breath of God 334
Response – Father, I Know That All My Life 559
Closing – Arise, My Soul, Arise 305
Confession of Faith: Nicene Creed
OT Reading: Ezekiel 36:16-38
Preparation Guide
Sunday: Review morning sermon (evening service @ 5pm)
Monday: Acts 2:43-47
Tuesday: 1 Samuel 22:1-9
Wednesday: 1 Samuel 22:10-15
Thursday: Ezekiel 36:16-38
Friday: Exodus 20:13
Saturday: Acts 2
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
1 Samuel 22
Lord have mercy on us. Evil men have slaughtered priests among the priesthood of all believers. How can murderers have such power? We know that Your purposes cannot be stopped. In the day of trouble, the wicked traitor speaks against Your saints. He finds favor from an envious king of Your own nation, and is willing to kill Your true servants to gain what He supposes he can get from those in power. Yet on that day of mourning, the holy priests of the Lord go to a place of eternal hope, but a vicious man outside of your covenantal protection, though he seems to have safety for the briefest moment, soon faces Your eternal wrath. O how we mourn the evil done by Your enemies. Yet we know that with Your anointed Son we are safe forever.
Ezekiel 36
Glorious Lord, Your Word is perfect. As we wait for the great blessings you have promised, we should hear Your voice with reverence and joy. Grant especially that all of Your ministers would not only hear Your Word, but also that they would rightly preach it and obey it. Grant that Your church will be doers of the Word rather than imitators of the world. Help us to follow in Your ways, and bless Your church in the days to come. We have defiled Your church with our disobedience, and You have disciplined us in love. Will we ever change? In Your concern for Your holy Name, fill us with Your Spirit so that we will turn away from sin. Cause us to believe in Your power and Your love. Grant to us a new heart and a new Spirit. Why should we not do the things that Christ has commanded? We will follow You by the strength of Your Spirit. Bring us growth in holiness and every good and appropriate prosperity by Your grace.
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.
