Prelude                                                                                                                                                                                                               Dana Maher  

Welcoming & Announcements                                                                                                                                                Service Leader Will Parker

HYMN 100                                       HOLY, HOLY, HOLY

Scripture Reading—Psalm 40:1-10

  ¹   I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry.

  ²   He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog,

      and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.

  ³   He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.

      Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord.

  ⁴   Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust,

      who does not turn to the proud,  to those who go astray after a lie!

  ⁵   You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you!

      I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.

  ⁶   In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear.

      Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

  ⁷   Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:

  ⁸   I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

  ⁹   I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation;

      behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.

¹⁰   I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart;

I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;

      I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness

from the great congregation.

COME, LET’S GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN 

Suzy Willis & Matthew Donovan, arr. by David Belanger

Nations will be flowing to Zion,
when they see the house of the Lord;
Running to His peaceful kingdom,
shouting they lay down their swords.

Come let’s go up to the mountain, come let’s go up to the Lord;
Come let’s go up to the mountain, He will teach us His ways.

(Repeat)

Wash us with the spirit of burning,
let Your beautiful fruit shine forth;
Then everyone who’s left in Zion
will be called holy forever more.

Come let’s go up to the mountain, come let’s go up to the Lord;
Come let’s go up to the mountain, He will teach us His ways.

(Repeat)

Arise and shake the earth so mightily,
send Your glory all across the land;
Then everything that’s proud and lofty
will bow before the Son of Man.

Come let’s go up to the mountain, come let’s go up to the Lord;
Come let’s go up to the mountain, He will teach us His ways.

(Repeat)

Over all the glory there will be a covering,

a cloud of smoke all through the day,
a flaming fire all through the night,

a tabernacle for the shade,
a shelter from the pouring rain,
when the Lord has washed away
the guilt from the daughters of Zion.

Come let’s go up to the mountain, come let’s go up to the Lord;
Come let’s go up to the mountain, He will teach us His ways.

(Repeat)

Reading from the Gospel—Mark 12:28-34

²⁸ And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?”

²⁹ Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰ And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

³² And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. ³³ And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

³⁴ And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Confession, Thanksgiving & Intercession                                                                                                          Ruling Elder Matt Pile                                        

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Tithes, Offerings & Offertory                                                      Dana Maher

­ After the offertory parents who desire may dismiss their children to Children’s Church.

HYMN                                               FOR YOU ARE HOLY

Sermon                                      Hebrews 10.1-18                           Pastor David O’Dowd

¹ For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. ² Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³ But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵ Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,

      “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

but a body have you prepared for me;

  ⁶   in burnt offerings and sin offerings

you have taken no pleasure.

  ⁷   Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,

as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’ ”

⁸ When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), ⁹ then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

¹¹ And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹² But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, ¹³ waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. ¹⁴ For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

¹⁵ And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

¹⁶   “This is the covenant that I will make with them

after those days, declares the Lord:

      I will put my laws on their hearts,

and write them on their minds,”

¹⁷ then he adds,

      “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

¹⁸ Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

HYMN                                               HE IS EXALTED

Benediction                                                                                     David O’Dowd