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!
