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SERVICE OF WORSHIP, APRIL 28, 2024
“Knowing Christ and Making Him Known”
Welcome and good morning! On this Resurrection Sunday, as you prepare for worship, please mediate on our memory verse from Joel 2:13, “Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.” (NKJ)
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WE TURN TO THE LORD IN WORSHIP
Prelude: Caroline Cleaveland
Choral Special: “Castles in the Sand”
Scripture Call to Worship
L: Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
ALL: The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
L: Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
ALL: But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
Chorus of Worship: # 758 “Lift Up Your Heads”
Prayer of Confession and Invocation
Assurance of Pardon from 2 Chronicles 7:14
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Christian, What do you Believe? (Recent translation of the Apostle’s Creed)
I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended to the dead. On the third day He rose again; He ascended into heaven, He is seated at the right hand of the Father, and He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic* church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. AMEN
[*”catholic” referring to the universal “one body” of Christ]
.Hymn of Worship # 754 “Lo He Comes”
WE TURN TO THE LORD IN PRAYER
Sharing of Praises and Prayer Requests
Pastoral Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6:9–13 (KJV)
“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.”
WE TURN TO THE LORD FOR HIS WORD
Memory Verse for today, from Joel 2:13 (NKJ)
“Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.”
Memory Verse for May 7, Communion Sunday, Joel 2:21 (NKJ)
“Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice,
For the LORD has done marvelous things!”
Reading from “the First Woe” of Revelation 9:1- 4, 10-12,
“Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads….
10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
11 And they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon.”
“One woe is past. Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.”
Song of Praise # 762 “What a Day”
Tithes and Offerings
WE TURN TO THE LORD FROM OUR SINS
Children’s Bible Chat:
After the chat, children 7 and under are invited to attend the Children’s Church by leaving through the door next to the organ.
Sermon from Joel 2:1-14, Some really Good reasons to turn to the Lord!
Context: Joel gives the Word of the Lord (1:1) to Israel during a devastating plague of locusts (described in 1:2-12) and announces it as the Day of the Lord at hand (1:13-20). Now in chapter 2, he announces the Lord has sent this plague so that Israel will turn to Him
[1] Joel Sounds the Alarm for the Day of the Lord (2:1)
- Joel refers to the calamity in his own time (detailed in chapter 1)
- How does Matthew 25:13 sound the alarm for the final Day of the Lord?
[2] Joel Gives a Dread Description of the Day of the Lord (2:1-11)
- Joel describes an invasion of _________ as if it was the Last Day
- Revelation 9 seems to borrow from Joel in describing an end-time plague of demonic locusts
- In Matt 24:29, how does Jesus cite Joel 2:10 to describe the final Day?
- Joel 2:11 asks a question repeated in Rev 6:17–so what is the answer?
[3] Joel gives The Right Response to the Day of the Lord (2:12-13)
- Have you responded by a heartfelt turning? (12a, Acts 3:19)
- Do you respond with a sincere fast? (12b, Matt 6:17-18)
- Do you Respond with correct view of God, as gracious (1 Peter 2:3); merciful (James 5:11); slow to anger (Rom 2:4); kind (Eph 2:7); comforting in tribulation (2 Cor 1:4)? Note similar lists at Exodus 34:6; Num 14:18; Neh 9:7; Ps 86:15; 103:8; 145:8; Jonah 4:2.
The Closing Application is asked in Joel 2:14, Who knows if God will turn to us? Don’t presume!
WE TURN TO THE LORD IN COMMITMENT
Hymn of Commitment # 766 “At the Name of Jesus”
COMMITMENT VERSE FOR REFLECTION from Jonah 3:9 (CEB) “Who knows? God may see this and turn from his wrath, so that we might not perish.”
BENEDICTION FROM PAUL’S COMMISSION IN ACTS 26:17 (NKJ)
” I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'”
6:00 The Pastor’s Digging Deeper Bible study continues this evening, using as a guide for discussion Dr Machen’s classic work, Christianity and Liberalism. We will cover chapter 2 this evening, contrasting the differences between the liberal view of doctrine with the biblical view, so we can be better prepared to discern between them. Come for a great time of edification!
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