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image : You Are The Christ, Sanzio Raffaello (1515)
Preparation for Worship
“Christ says… I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half measures are any good. I don’t want to cut off a branch here and a branch there, I want to have the whole tree down… the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked–the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: My own will shall become yours.” —C.S. Lewis
Satisfied (Clara T. Williams, 1875)
Rock of Ages (Augustus Toplady, 1776)
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In The House of God Forever/Psalm 23 (Jon Foreman, 2008)
Doxology (Thomas Ken, 1709)
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When I Survey (Isaac Watts, 1707)
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Jesus, I my Cross Have Taken (Henry F. Lyte, 1824)
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Jesus Savior Pilot Me (Edward Hopper, 1871)
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Call to Worship Revelation 5:11-12; 15:3-4; 1:5-6
I looked, and I heard around the throne… the voice of many angels numbering thousands upon thousands, saying with a loud voice,
“Worthy is the Lamb Who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”
Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the ages.
Who will not fear You, O Lord, and bring glory to Your name? For You alone are holy.
All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.
To Him Who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood and made us a kingdom of priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.
Old Testament Reading Isaiah 53:10-11
It was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;
when his soul makes an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
We Confess Our Sin Together from The Heidelberg Catechism
Christ teaches us that the law is summarized by this: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.” This is the first and the great commandment; and the second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Can you keep these commands perfectly?
In no way, for I am prone by nature to despise God and my neighbor.
And the prophets and apostles have told us:“Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” Is there no way by which we may escape that punishment and be again received into favor?
God will have His justice satisfied; and therefore we must make this full satisfaction, either by ourselves or by another.
Can we ourselves then make this satisfaction?
By no means; but on the contrary, we daily increase our debt.
What sort of mediator and deliverer, then, must we seek?
We must seek for one who is truly man and perfectly righteous; and yet more powerful than all creatures; that is, one who is also truly God. Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!
God Declares Our Forgiveness II Corinthians 5:17-18
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ.
Sermon Mark 8:22-38
22 And they came to Bethsaida. And some people brought to him a blind man and begged him to touch him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village, and when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he asked him, “Do you see anything?” 24 And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.” 25 Then Jesus laid his hands on his eyes again; and he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even enter the village.”
27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” 30 And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.
31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. 32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. 36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? 37 For what can a man give in return for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Benediction
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