Sunday (4/25): review morning sermon (evening service @ 5:00 p.m.)
Monday (4/26): Read & discuss Hebrews 4:1-11; read sermon outline
Supplementary Bible reading: Hebrews 3:7-19
Tuesday (4/27): Read & sing “All People That on Earth Do Dwell” (1)
Supplementary Bible reading: Hebrews 12:14-17
Wednesday (4/28): Read & sing Psalm 6
Supplementary Bible reading: Genesis 2:1-4
Thursday (4/29): Read & sing “My Hope Is Built…” (521)
Supplementary Bible reading: Psalm 95:1-11
Friday (4/30): Read & sing “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (572)
Supplementary Bible reading: Joshua 22:1-5
Saturday (5/1): Read & discuss Hebrews 4:1-11; rev. sermon outline
Supplementary Bible reading: Matthew 11:25-30
Next Sunday: May 2, 2010
Preaching: Elder Matt Parks
Sermon text: Hebrews 4:1-11
Sermon outline: “A Sabbath Rest for the People of God”
I. Benefitting from good news (1-2)
II. Entering that rest (3-5)
III. Failing to enter (6-7)
IV. A Sabbath rest that remains (8-10)
V. Striving to enter that rest (v. 11)
Music: Opening – “All People That on Earth Do Dwell” (1)
Preparation – Psalm 6
Response – “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less” (521)
Closing – “Onward, Christian Soldiers” (572)
Confession of Faith: the Nicene Creed
OT Reading: Genesis 1:1-2:4
Suggested Bible Study and Prayers
(Passages that we will refer to in next Sunday's worship)
__ Ezekiel 43
Glorious God, fill Your church with Your glory. Here below we have a taste of Your greatness. We are hungry for more of Your glory. We long to be in that place where You will dwell with Your people forever. No longer will our defiling sin give us trouble. All of our evil will be utterly put away. This is what we long for. We are ashamed of our horrible iniquities. Even before the return of Your Son, when our bodies rest in the grave, even then our sin will be utterly removed from our eternal souls. Grant that our perfected spirits will one day be brought to dwell in our resurrected bodies forever. May we enjoy Your temple forever in that day with purified spirits in resurrection splendor. May we walk all around it, and contemplate the glory of it in all of its greatness. Thank You for the blood of Your Son, by which we have been granted such a glorious expectation. Surely our sin has been atoned for. Send Your Son to us. Fill the temple of Your living church even now, as we wait for the fulfillment of Your most excellent promises. We are acceptable in the Beloved. What a wonderful hope we have!
__ Psalm 96
Father God, we know that You are with us despite our troubled bodies and souls. You will help us at just the right time. You will take away our grief that seems to swallow us up in tears and clouds. You hear us, O God. Our enemies will suddenly be put to shame.
__ Genesis 1
Creator God, You have made all things of nothing. You were in the beginning, and Your Spirit hovered over the face of the deep. In the person of Your Son, You have spoken the world into being. He is the Light of the World, and through Him Light was made. Your Spirit is a fountain of living water for our souls, and by Your Spirit You created the waters and defined their boundaries. You have given us the true Bread from heaven, our great Redeemer, and through Him You made all the vegetation that has covered the dry land. Father, You ordained that the sun, moon, and stars would have dominion over light and darkness. You have filled the waters above with the birds of the air and the waters below with the fish of the sea. You have given us all kinds of creatures, covering the dry land with such a variety of living things. O Marvelous Lord, You then created man, male and female, in Your image. You have granted to us all that we need for life, and have placed us in dominion over all things in the created order. Blessed be Your Name, O God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for You alone created the heavens and the earth.
__ Genesis 2
O Lord of the Sabbath, You rested on the day of Your choosing. Grant that we might enter into Your holy rest through Jesus Christ. He is the second Adam, through whom we have new life. Our father, the first Adam, was granted life in a beautiful garden. You warned him about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that he should not eat of it, lest he die. You granted to him a helpmate from his own rib in the beautiful form of the very good gift of a woman. She was a companion suitable for him, for she was like him but not like him; opposite him but not opposite him. This great gift of women you have given us even now, together with all family blessings, for You know our every need and give wonderful gifts to Your children.
