Pastor Joel E. Wood
Care for All Kinds
Acts 9:32-43
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July 21, 2024
9:30a Service
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GREETING & CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 134:1-2
Leader: Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who stand by night in the house of the Lord!
People: Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!
PRAYER OF ADORATION, ASSISTANCE, & BLESSING
Hymn “This Earth belongs to God”
This earth belongs to God
The world its wealth and all its people
He formed the waters wide
And fashioned every sea and shore
Who may go up the hill of the Lord
And stand in the place of holiness
Only the one whose heart is pure
Whose hands and lips are clean
Lift high your heads you gates
Rise up you everlasting doors
As here now the King of glory
Enters into full command
Who is the king this King of glory
Where is the throne He comes to claim
Christ is the King the Lord of glory
Fresh from His victory
Lift high your heads you gates
And fling wide open the ancient doors
For here comes the King of glory
Taking universal power
Who is the king this King of glory
What is the power by which He reigns
Christ is the King His cross His glory
And by love He rules
All glory be to God
The Father Son and Holy Spirit
From ages past it was
Is now and evermore shall be
Christopher Idle, Jeremiah Clarke, Noel Harwood Tredinnick
© Words: 1980 Christopher Idle - The Jubilate Group (Admin. by Jubilate Hymns Ltd, sub to Hope
Publishing for various regions); Music: 1999 Noel Tredinnick - The Jubilate Group (Admin. by Jubilate
Hymns Ltd, sub to Hope Publishing for various regions)
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REFLECTION ON GOD’S LAW from Exodus 20:1-17 & N.T. corollaries, ESV
Leader: Honor your father and your mother.
People: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (Eph. 6:1)
Leader: You shall not murder.
People: Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1 Jn. 3:15)
Leader: You shall not commit adultery.
People: Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Mt. 5:28)
Leader: You shall not steal.
People: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. Do your work quietly and earn your own living. (2 Th. 3:10,12)
Leader: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
People: Having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor. (Eph. 4:25)
Leader: You shall not covet anything that is your neighbor's.
People: For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Gal. 5:14)
SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON – John 14:6
Trinity Hymnal #600 “He Leadeth Me”
He leadeth me: O blessed thought!
O words with heav'nly comfort fraught!
Whate'er I do, where'er I be,
still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me.
Refrain:
He leadeth me, he leadeth me;
by his own hand he leadeth me:
his faithful foll'wer I would be,
for by his hand he leadeth me.
Sometimes 'mid scenes of deepest gloom,
sometimes where Eden's bowers bloom,
by waters calm, o'er troubled sea,
still 'tis his hand that leadeth me. [Refrain]
Lord, I would clasp thy hand in mine,
nor ever murmur nor repine;
content, whatever lot I see,
since 'tis my God that leadeth me. [Refrain]
And when my task on earth is done,
when, by thy grace, the vict'ry's won,
e'en death's cold wave I will not flee,
since God through Jordan leadeth me. [Refrain]
PRAYER OF THE CHURCH – Elder B. Tidwell
Trinity Hymnal #663 “O God Eternal, You Are My God”
O God eternal, you are my God!
For you I long in body and soul
as in a dry and waterless land
I search, I thirst, I faint for you.
On holy ground your glory I saw;
your steadfast love is better than life;
I'll bless your name as long as I live
and lift my hands to you in prayer.
You feed my soul as if with a feast -
I sing your praise with jubilant lips;
upon my bed I call you to mind
and meditate on you at night.
For you have been the help of my life;
you take and keep me under your wing;
I cling to you, and find your support;
O God my joy, you are my God!
GOD’S WORD READ – Acts 9:32-43
GOD’S WORD PREACHED – “Care for All Kinds” by Pastor Joel E. Wood
PRAYER OF APPLICATION & THE LORD’S PRAYER
Hymn “In Christ Alone”
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light my strength my song
This Cornerstone this solid Ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love what depths of peace
When fears are stilled when strivings cease
My Comforter my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand
Keith Getty, Stuart Townend
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Trinity Hymnal p. 845 “Apostles’ Creed”
WORDS OF INSTITUTION & WARNING
Minister: The Lord be with you;
People: And also with you.
Minister: Lift up your hearts;
People: We lift them up to the Lord.
Minister: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God;
People: It is right to give him thanks and praise.
SERVING OF THE SUPPER
Song “His Mercy Is More”
What love could remember no wrongs we have done
Omniscient all knowing He counts not their sum
Thrown into a sea without bottom or shore
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
What patience would wait as we constantly roam
What Father so tender is calling us home
He welcomes the weakest the vilest the poor
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
What riches of kindness He lavished on us
His blood was the payment His life was the cost
We stood 'neath a debt we could never afford
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Chorus: Praise the Lord His mercy is more
Stronger than darkness new every morn
Our sins they are many His mercy is more
Matt Boswell, Matt Papa
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Trinity Hymnal #731: “Doxology”
THE BENEDICTION
