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Order of Worship for March 14, 2010
Prelude
Welcoming & Announcements Service Leader Will Parker
Call to Worship—John 12.44-50 ESV 44And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. 47If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 49For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. 50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.” Hymn 263 Lift High the Cross
Scripture Reading—2 Corinthians 5.16-21 16From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Hymn 247 O Sacred Head Now Wounded
Confession, Thanksgiving & Intercession Elder Matt Pile
Words of Assurance—Romans 8.1-17 (leader) & Psalm 32.1-2,5-8,11 (congregation)
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 I acknowledged my sin to you, 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
6 Therefore let everyone who is godly 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
7 You are a hiding place for me;
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you…. 11 Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
Tithes, Offering & Offertory
Communion Meditation Romans 8.1-17 Pastor David O’Dowd
Communion
Hymn A Debtor to Mercy Alone
The Bread Hymn How Sweet the name of Jesus Sounds
The Cup
Meditate quietly on our Lord who willingly poured out his life blood to cleanse and redeem us.
Sending Forth Hymn 307 Nothing But the Blood
Benediction David O’Dowd
Postlude NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD (Reprise) CPC Band
Words & songs used with permission; CCLI License #181636 Scripture passages are from the English Standard Version ©2000, 2007 Crossway Bibles
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