June 25, 2023
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Announcements
Invocation
Scripture: Genesis 21:8-21
8 The child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, playing with her son Isaac.
10 So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son; for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac."
11 The matter was very distressing to Abraham on account of his son.
12 But God said to Abraham, "Do not be distressed because of the boy and because of your slave woman; whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for it is through Isaac that offspring shall be named for you.
13 As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a nation of him also, because he is your offspring."
14 So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
15 When the water in the skin was gone, she cast the child under one of the bushes.
16 Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about the distance of a bowshot; for she said, "Do not let me look on the death of the child." And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her voice and wept.
17 And God heard the voice of the boy; and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, and said to her, "What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid; for God has heard the voice of the boy where he is.
18 Come, lift up the boy and hold him fast with your hand, for I will make a great nation of him."
19 Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. She went, and filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
20 God was with the boy, and he grew up; he lived in the wilderness, and became an expert with the bow.
21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran; and his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.
“My Tribute”
Hymn #35
How can I say thanks for the things
You have done for me-
Things so undeserved,
yet You give to prove Your love for me?
The voices of a million angels
could not express my gratitude.
All that I am and ever hope to be,
I owe it all to Thee.
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
To God be the glory
For the things He has done.
With His blood He has saved me; With His pow’r He has raised me.
To God be the glory for the things He has done.
Just let me live my life; Let it be pleasing, Lord, to Thee.
And should I gain any praise, Let it go to Calvary.
With His blood He has saved me; With His pow’r He has raised me.
To God be the glory for the things He has done.
Just let me live my life; Let it be pleasing, Lord, to Thee.
And should I gain any praise, Let it go to Calvary.
“To God Be the Glory”
Hymn #36
To God be the glory-
Great things He hath done:
So loved He the world that
He gave us His Son,
Who yielded His life
an atonement for sin,
And opened the life-gate
that all may go in.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father
Thro’ Jesus, the Son,
And give Him the glory-
Great things He hath done!
O perfect redemption,
The purchase of blood-
To ev’ry believer, the promise of God!
The vilest offender
who truly believes,
That moment from Jesus
a pardon receives.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father
Thro’ Jesus, the Son,
And give Him the glory-
Great things He hath done!
Great things He hath taught us,
great things He hath done,
And great our rejoicing
thro’ Jesus, the Son!
But purer and higher and greater will be
Our wonder, our transport
when Jesus we see!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the earth hear His voice!
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Let the people rejoice!
O come to the Father
Thro’ Jesus, the Son,
And give Him the glory-
Great things He hath done!
Scripture: Psalm 69:7-18
7 It is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother's children.
9 It is zeal for your house that has consumed me; the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.
10 When I humbled my soul with fasting, they insulted me for doing so.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
12 I am the subject of gossip for those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me. With your faithful help
14 rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
15 Do not let the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the Pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for your steadfast love is good; according to your abundant mercy, turn to me.
17 Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress—make haste to answer me.
18 Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies.
Doxology
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Pastoral Prayer-Joys & Concerns
Scripture: Matthew 10:24-39
24 "A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above the master;
25 it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household!
26 "So have no fear of them; for nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known.
27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.
28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.
30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted.
31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
32 "Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;
33 but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.
34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
36 and one's foes will be members of one's own household.
37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
38 and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
“Sing the Story”
Verse 1:
The Father spoke and there was life
Formed humans from dust and delight
But with that cunning serpent’s sleight
Expelled them east of Eden’s heights
Verse 2:
But God intended still to dwell
Among His people who rebelled
And He elected Israel
Darkness to one day dispel
Chorus:
Let us sing the story of our God
Who’s turning darkness into light
Let us sing the story of our God
Who’s turning death back info life
He is making all things right
Til earth is filled with heaven’s light
So let us sing the story of our God
Who’s making all things new
Verse 3:
Behold the Lamb of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim
For a Kingdom He proclaimed
Coming with the Spirit’s flame
Verse 4:
When nails and fangs looked like defeat
For Israel’s true royal seed
He crushed the snake beneath His feet
The Lamb of God won victory
Tag:
Crucified and crowned as King
Chorus
Let us sing the story of our God
Who’s turning darkness into light
Let us sing the story of our God
Who’s turning death back info life
He is making all things right
Til earth is filled with heaven’s light
So let us sing the story of our God
Who’s making all things new
Verse 5:
And He arose with third day’s light
The firstfruits of eternal life
Ascended to the Father’s side
Til He returns to here abide
Verse 6:
With new creation in His sight
He’ll wipe away death’s wicked blight
From empty graves, the saints will rise
To praise the name of Jesus Christ
Chorus
Let us sing the story of our God
Who’s turning darkness into light
Let us sing the story of our God
Who’s turning death back info life
He is making all things right
Til earth is filled with heaven’s light
So let us sing the story of our God
Who’s making all things new
“Rescuer”
He's our Rescuer
He's our Rescuer
We are free from sin forever more
Oh how sweet the sound
Oh how grace abounds
We will praise the Lord, our Rescuer
There is good news for the captive
Good news for the shamed
There is good news for the one who walked away
He's our Rescuer
He's our Rescuer
We are free from sin forever more
Oh how sweet the sound
Oh how grace abounds
We will praise the Lord, our Rescuer
he is beauty for the blind man
riches for the poor
he is friendship for the one the world ignores
He is pasture for the weary
Rest for those who strive
For the good lord is the way, the truth, the life
He's our Rescuer
He's our Rescuer
We are free from sin forever more
Oh how sweet the sound
Oh how grace abounds
We will praise the Lord, our Rescuer
So come and be chainless
Come and be fearless
Come to the foot of calvary
For there is redemption
For every affliction
Here at the foot of calvary
So come and be chainless
Come and be fearless
Come to the foot of calvary
For there is redemption
For every affliction
ere at the foot of calvary
Scripture: Romans 6:1-11
1 What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 For whoever has died is freed from sin.
8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Message: Pastor Ryan
“Sin?”
Benediction
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