3-13-22 Worship Folder
ORDER OF WORSHIP
3-13-22
Greeting
Call to Worship Psalm 93, Responsive Reading
Pastor: The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Congregation: Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.
Pastor: The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
Congregation: Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!
All: Your decrees are very trustworthy; holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.
Invocation
* Hymn Supplement pg. 54 “All Praise to Thee”
Call to Confession James 3:1-2
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon James 3:17-18
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
* Hymn of Response # 247 “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded”
The Living Church
Reception of New Members: (Reaffirmation of Faith) & (Profession of Faith)
Baptisms:
* Hymn # 347 (verses 1-3) “The Church’s One Foundation”
* Old Testament Scripture Reading:
Prophets: Isaiah 5:1-7 (The Vineyard that Breaks the Heart)
Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
* 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 Shorter Catechism, Questions and Answers 21-22
Q. 21 Who is the Redeemer of God’s elect?
A. The only Redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, for ever.
Q. 22 How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
Pastoral Prayer
* Hymn # 347 (verses 4-6) “The Church’s One Foundation”
Tithes and Offerings
* 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
Sermon Series: The Gospel of Mark
* Prayer for Illumination
* Sermon Text Mark 12:1-12
And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another
country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. Have you not read this Scripture: “ ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?” And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.
* 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: “Christ the Cornerstone” Pastor Michael Mock
Sermon Outline: Following
Prayer for Transformation
Lord’s Supper: The Stone Rejected
* Eucharistic Hymn, Hymn Supplement pg. 78 “We Will Feast in the House of Zion”
* Benediction
* Departing Hymn # 735 “Gloria Patri”
Sermon Outline:
Sermon Text: Mark 12:1-12 “Christ the Cornerstone”
The Father patiently provides salvation in the Son, but will punish all who reject Christ the Cornerstone.
Patience (vv. 1-8)
Abundant Grace
Planting
Provision
Protection
Patience
Application
Punishment (vv. 2-12)
A Right Expectation of Fruit
Abuse of Grace
A Judgment Sure to Come
Application
Provision for Another (vv. 10-11)
To Others
Marvelous & Mysterious Provision
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