Worship Next Sunday
September 9, 2012
Preaching: Pastor Steve Magee
Sermon text: Acts 15:12-18
Sermon title: "I Will Rebuild the Tent of David"
Music:
Opening hymn 1 All People That on Earth Do Dwell
Preparation hymn 75 O Father, You Are Sovereign
Response hymn 44 How Great Thou Art
Closing hymn 521 My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less
Confession of Faith: The Nicene Creed
Old Testament Passage: Psalm 84
Preparation Guide
Sunday: Review morning sermon (evening service @ 5pm)
Monday: Acts 15:12-18
Tuesday: 2 Kings 24:1-9
Wednesday: 2 Kings 24:10-20
Thursday: Psalm 84
Friday: Exodus 20:16
Saturday: Acts 15
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
2 Kings 24
God in heaven, what can we do when good gifts are taken away from us? The godly way of a father may only be a memory. Sons and grandsons have lost all sense of Your truth. They are taken captive by enemies that are too strong for them. How will we find hope again? Surely You will send Your Son for us. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
Psalm 84
Our Father, we long to be with You. We rejoice in the opportunity to be together in worship even in this age, but we especially look forward to the age to come. We long for a day in Your courts above. Help us, O Lord. You have blessed us, and we trust in You.
Acts 15
Great God, there was much dissension in the early church, and there are important disagreements in the church today. Help us to distinguish between those matters where love must cover a multitude of sins, and those matters that must be more fully discussed for Your good purposes. Give us the courage and discipline to call together eminent and godly servants of the truth in order to gain greater clarity by Your Word and Spirit. Make their deliberations a productive and worthwhile use of Your resources. Thank You for the wonderful truth that was displayed so powerfully in Your church in days of old when the age changed from the time of the Law to the new day of the gospel. Thank you for the way of life by grace through the faith that remained the same in both ages. Yet thank You once again for the clarity that the ceremonies of the Law have been fulfilled in Christ. It is now clear that we do not need to be Jewish before we can be Christians. The way of life for us in not through circumcision, Passover, and the regulations of clean and unclean. Nonetheless, we thank You for the record of these matters in the Law, for they show us the wonders of Christ. He has become our circumcision through His death on the cross. Through Him alone we have been rescued from sure destruction, for He is our Passover. By His blood sprinkled upon our hearts we have been cleansed by the Holy Spirit from the guilt and stain of sin.
