Worship Next Sunday
December 23, 2018
Preaching: Steve Magee
Sermon Text: Luke 1:57-80
Sermon Title: Birth of John
Music:
Opening Hymn: (#322) Once in Royal David's City
Preparation Hymn: (#271) Blessed Jesus, at Your Word
Response Hymn: (#313) Angels from the Realms of Glory
Closing Hymn: (#404) The Church's One Foundation
Meditation on God's Law: Following Jesus
Supporting Passages: Psalm 89
Preparation Guide
Sunday: Psalm 88 (Tonight: Main Text)
Monday: WSC #95, Psalm 89A, Acts 12 (Daily Worship)
Tuesday: WSC #96, Psalm 90A, Acts 13 (Daily Worship)
Wednesday: WSC #97, Psalm 91B, Acts 14 (Daily Worship)
Thursday: Psalm 89 (Next Sunday: OT Reading)
Friday: Luke 9:23-27 (Next Sunday: Law)
Saturday: Luke 1:57-80 (Next Sunday: Main Text)
Meditating on the Scriptures Together
Morning: Luke 1:57-80
[57] Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. [58] And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. [59] And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child. And they would have called him Zechariah after his father, [60] but his mother answered, “No; he shall be called John.” [61] And they said to her, “None of your relatives is called by this name.” [62] And they made signs to his father, inquiring what he wanted him to be called. [63] And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, “His name is John.” And they all wondered. [64] And immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he spoke, blessing God. [65] And fear came on all their neighbors. And all these things were talked about through all the hill country of Judea, [66] and all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, “What then will this child be?” For the hand of the Lord was with him.
[67] And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,
[68] “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people
[69] and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,
[70] as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old,
[71] that we should be saved from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us;
[72] to show the mercy promised to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
[73] the oath that he swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
[74] that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies,
might serve him without fear,
[75] in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
[76] And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
[77] to give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
[78] because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
[79] to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
[80] And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
Evening: Psalm 89
Remember, O Lord!
