Sept 14 2014 Worship Guide :: Plentiful Redemption

image :: 1550 Chairs, Doris Salcedo (Istanbul, 2003)

Preparation for Worship :: Plentiful Redemption

“The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. They come by the thousands, by their myriads, e’er since that day when Christ first entered His glory. They come and yet never a stone has sprung in that mighty bridge. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch has never yielded beneath their weight. I will go with them, trusting to the same support. It will bear me over as it has for them.” (Charles Spurgeon)

“For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40)

Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Sept 14 include:

:: King of Saints Joseph Hart, 1712-68 (chart) [bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=2189898526 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 artwork=none track=3854459982]
:: From Depths of Woe (Psalm 130) Martin Luther, 1524 (chart) [bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=2800896556 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 artwork=none track=762862813]
:: How Long, O Lord? (Psalm 13) Isaac Watts, 1719 (lyrics) [bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=3240358148 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 artwork=none track=231763990]
:: Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone) John Newton, 1779; Chris Tomlin, 2006 (chart) [bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=2679071235 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 artwork=none track=4184450343]

Call to Worship :: Psalm 116:5-9

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; our God is merciful. The Lord preserves the simple; when I was brought low, He saved me. Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling; I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living.

Confession of Sin

Father, we come to You as sinners in need of forgiveness and cleansing that only comes through Your Son. How we marvel that He was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquity. Lord, Your compassions yearn over us, Your heart hastens to our rescue, Your love endured our curse, Your mercy bore our sins. The healing for which our hearts long is found through His wounds alone. In Your grace, free us from the guilt and the power of sin. Transform us to live wholeheartedly for You, declared righteous by Your sacrifice, tender of conscience, triumphing gloriously as heirs of salvation. In Christ’s name we pray, AMEN.

Lord, have mercy;
Christ, have mercy;
Lord, have mercy
Upon us; upon us.

Words of Encouragement :: Heidelberg Catechism 1 (1563)

What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death – to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with His precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation. Because I belong to Him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me whole-heartedly willing and ready from now on to live for Him.

Ministry of Prayer :: Psalm 32; refrain 32:7

[refrain] You are a hiding place for me; You preserve me from trouble.

Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit. [refrain]

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.

I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. [refrain]

Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. [refrain]

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.

Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! [refrain]

Sermon :: Psalm 130. A Song of Ascents.

¹Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
² O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

³If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
⁴But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
⁶my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.

⁷O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
⁸And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.