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1 John 2:18-29 What to expect when you are United to Christ

Good Morning .. Pause

I welcome you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

God Call Us into His Presence for His Worship

Our Call to Worship is from Psalm 119:1-3

Call to Worship Psalm 119 1-3 “Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!”

Please take a few minutes to prayerfully consider this passage.

God's Greeting is from 1 Cor 1:1-3

1 Cor 1:1-3 “Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”

LET US RISE FOR THE SINGING OF GODS WORD

Opening Song of Praise (TPH Psalm 67B)

Let us Pray

Our Father in heaven

We know that we are inclined to all kinds of errors, to so many various forms of superstitions,

and as Satan also does not cease to lay in wait for us,

and spreads before us his many snares

Grant to us Father that we may be preserved in obedience to you by the teaching of your Word,

That we may never turn here and there,

Either to the right or to the left,

But continue in that pure worship which you have prescribed,

So that we may plainly testify that you are indeed our Father

by continuing under the protection of your only begotten Son,

who you have given to be our pastor and ruler to the end.

Who calls us to Worship the true and living God,

and gives rest unto those who labour and are heavy laden;

Who did come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance.

Purify us from all uncleanness,

both bodily and spiritual,

and teach us to fulfill holiness in the fear and knowledge of you

That we might approach you with a pure conscience,

Through the Blood of your Son and our Savior alone.

Father we now call upon you to be with us and be in our presence.

And illuminate our minds by your Spirit and Word.

We thank you Father in all things in Christ name Amen.

We Hear God's Law and Confess Our Sins to Him

Exodus 20:1-17 “

20 And God spoke all these words, saying,

2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.

Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Turn in your Trinity Psalter Hymnal to page 974

I will read question 82 of the WSC

And we will all recite the Answer as our confession of Sin.

Confession of Sin: (WSC 82)

The Westminster Shorter Catechism (Question 82)

Question 82Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God?No mere man since the fall is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, (but doth daily break them in thought, word, and deed.

Our Assurance of Pardon comes from Psalm 103:8-12

Assurance of Pardon (Psalm 103:8-12)

The Lord is merciful and gracious,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

9  He will not always chide,

nor will he keep his anger forever.

10  He does not deal with us according to our sins,

nor repay us according to our iniquities.

11  For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;

12  as far as the east is from the west,

so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

We Respond with Gratitude

Congregational Prayer

Congregational Prayer

Grant, Almighty God, that since you daily exhort us,

and though you see us often turning aside from the the right path,

You are kind Father because you do not cease to stretch forth your hand to us,

and you also continue to wake us up by many reproofs,

that we may repent—

Father grant that we may not be permitted

to reject your Word with perverseness;

But rule us by your Spirit,

That we may meekly and obediently submit to you,

Help us to be teachable, so that if we have not been willing to submit to your correction,

That we may not continue in our sins.

Father help us to heed your spirits correction.

Heal our diseases so that we may truly repent,

Help us to be so wholly given to obey you,

as never to attempt anything beyond the rule of your Word,

and help us to heed the wisdom which you have revealed to us,

not only by Moses and your prophets,

but also by your only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.

father we pray for the congregation

Father we Pray for _____________ and we ask for all these things in the powerful, glorious, majestic, and wonderful name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Offerings

We now have the opportunity to Give back to the Lord in our Tithes and Offerings

The Lord Says in

2 COr 9:7 “Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

Deacons would you please take up the the offering.