Order of Worship  2-2-2025

Call to Worship         Psalm 96:7-9

Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength! Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! Worship the LORD in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!

Invocation and The Lord’s Prayer

Hymn of Praise   “Rejoice, the Lord Is King”           #228

Scripture Reading    Romans 13:1-7

Corporate Confession of Sin

Eternal and Almighty Father, we acknowledge and confess before Your holy Majesty that we are poor sinners, conceived and born in guilt and corruption, prone to evil, unable of ourselves to do any good; who, by reason of our sinful- ness, transgress Your holy commandments. O Lord, with heartfelt sorrow we repent and deplore our offenses! Be pleased then to have compassion on us, Father of all mercies, for the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. And in removing our guilt and corruption, grant us the daily increase of Your Holy Spirit that we might put to death the sin that is within us and bear all the fruit of the Spirit in our daily lives. We trust You for these graces on the basis of the death and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Assurance of Pardon           Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Hymn of Assurance “How Deep the Father’s Love for Us”  HMA    #52

Confession of Faith WSC #27-28

27. 27. Wherein did Christ’s humiliation consist?

Christ’s humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.

28. 28. Wherein consisteth Christ’s exaltation?

Christ’s exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

Pastoral Prayer        

Choral Anthem          “Holy, Mighty, Worthy!”

Presentation of Tithes and Offerings

The Preaching of God’s Word

“The Christian Citizen”           1 Peter 2:13-17

Hymn of Preparation “Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face” #325 (1-3)

The Lord’s Supper

Hymn of Response “Here, O My Lord, I See Thee Face to Face” #325 (4)

Benediction   Numbers 6:24-26

The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.