Worship Next Sunday
May
4, 2014
Preaching:
Pastor Steve Magee
Sermon
Text: James 4:11-17
Sermon
Title: If
the Lord wills
Music:
Opening
hymn: 1 All People That on Earth Do Dwell
Preparation
hymn: 437 O God, to Us Show Mercy
Response
hymn: 111 This Is My Father's World
Closing
hymn: 353 I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord
Meditation
on God's Law: The Fourth
Commandment
Supporting
Passages: Isaiah 58:1-5,
Matthew 11:20-24
Preparation
Guide
Sunday:
Hebrews 6:1-3 (Tonight: Main Text)
Monday:
Job 12 (Daily Worship)
Tuesday:
Job 13 (Daily Worship)
Wednesday:
Job 14 (Daily Worship)
Thursday:
Isaiah 58:1-5 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)
Friday:
Matthew 11:20-24 (Next Sunday: Gospel)
Saturday:
James 4:11-17 (Next Sunday: Main Text)
Meditating
on the Scriptures Together
Isaiah
58:1-5
[58:1] “Cry
aloud; do not hold back;
lift up your voice like a trumpet;
declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
lift up your voice like a trumpet;
declare to my people their transgression,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
[2] Yet they
seek me daily
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
[3] ‘Why have
we fasted, and you see it not?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you take no
knowledge of it?’
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
and oppress all your workers.
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure,
and oppress all your workers.
[4] Behold, you
fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
and to hit with a wicked fist.
Fasting like yours this day
will not make your voice to be heard on high.
[5] Is such the
fast that I choose,
a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the LORD?
a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the LORD?
