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Welcome and Announcements

Mid Week study at the Navarro’s

Women’s seminar on March 16th on Servanthood

Evening Service march 3rd

Joining immanuel

Call to Worship

To all who are weary and need rest

To all who mourn and long for comfort

To all who fail and desire strength

To all who sin and need a savior

Immanuel Church opens wide her doors with a welcome from Jesus, Friend of Sinners!

Psalm 84:2 CSB

I long and yearn for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

Prayer of Praise

Introduce Songs 2 and 3

Ancient of Days

None above Him, None Before Him

Christ our Hope in Life and Death

He is the Living God

Scripture reading

Genesis 4:1–16 (CSB)

The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.” She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground. In the course of time Cain presented some of the land’s produce as an offering to the Lord. And Abel also presented an offering—some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent? If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian?”

Then he said, “What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground! So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed. If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear! Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me.”. Then the Lord replied to him, “In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. Then Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

1 John 3:11–18 CSB

For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another, unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers and sisters, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we have come to know love: He laid down his life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees a fellow believer in need but withholds compassion from him—how does God’s love reside in him? Little children, let us not love in word or speech, but in action and in truth.

Prayer of Confession

We fail to love

We hate those we should love

We jealous of what others have

We are angry at other’s success

We are harsh in our actions

We ultimately don’t understand your love for us

We don’t understand our own sin

Assurance of Pardon

Psalm 34:17–18 CSB

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he saves those crushed in spirit.

Worship through Giving

Matthew 6:2–4 CSB

So whenever you give to the poor, don’t sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be applauded by people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward. But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Prayer of Thanks

Help us be cheerful givers

Introduce song 4

The King of Love

We lack nothing if we are His.

Remain seated while the offering bags are passed.