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ORDER OF WORSHIP

11-17-19

Prelude 

Greeting and Announcements 

Meditation

In adoption to God the Father is a spirit of reverence, for who can so approach the holy and infinitely majestic God without deep awe! An affectionate, yet humble fear, is a necessary characteristic of a child of God.

George W. Bethune, Guilt, Grace, and Gratitude: Lectures on the Heidelberg Catechism, vol. 1, pg. 232.

Call to Worship                                                                         Psalm 89:1

¹ I will sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

Invocation 

* Hymn # 535                                       “O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus!” 

Call to Confession                                            1 Corinthians 6:9–10 (ESV)

⁹ Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Prayer of Confession 

Assurance of Pardon                                                      1 Corinthians 6:11

¹¹ And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

* Hymn # 460                                                                  “Amazing Grace” 

The Living Church

Baptism

Membership

* Hymn # 355                                                        “We Are God’s People” 

* Old & New Testament Reading: (OT) Leviticus 20:13      (NT) Matthew 15:19–20

Old Testament

Leviticus 20:13 (Homosexuality Is Sin)

¹³ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

New Testament

Matthew 15:19–20 (Sin Arises from the Heart)

¹⁹ “…For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. ²⁰ These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

*Pastor: This is the Word of our God.

*Congregation: The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever.

Affirmation of Faith         Westminster Confession of Faith, CHAPTER VI.

Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof

IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled, and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions.

V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated: and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions thereof, are truly and properly sin.

VI. Every sin, both original and actual, being a transgression of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto, doth, in its own nature, bring guilt upon the sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and so made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal, and eternal.

Pastoral Prayer

* Hymn # 463                                                   “A Debtor to Mercy Alone” 

Tithes and Offerings 

“We Gather at Your Table”                                                      CCPC Choir 

*Hymn # 731                                                                           “Doxology”

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Amen.

* Prayer of Thanksgiving 

Prayer for Illumination 

Sermon Series: Romans 

* Sermon Text: Romans 1:26-27

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; ²⁷ and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

* Pastor: Thus far the reading of God’s holy Word. And may God add His blessing to the reading of His Word.

* Congregation: Thanks be to God! 

Sermon Title: “Salvation for a Homosexual Culture”  Pastor Joshua Owen

Sermon Outline: Salvation for a Homosexual Culture

* Hymn of Response # 499                            “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” 

Lord’s Supper 

Eucharistic Hymn # 420                    “At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing” 

* Departing Hymn (Keith Getty & Stuart Townend) CCLI 3003280              “May the Peace”

May the peace of God our Heavenly Father and the grace of Christ the risen Son,

And the fellowship of God the Spirit keep our hearts and minds within His love.

And to Him be praise for His glorious reign, from the depths of earth to the heights of Heaven;

We declare the name of the Lamb once slain – Christ eternal the King of Kings!