Call to Worship: From Psalm 119:97, 105
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day . . . Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Prayer of Adoration:
Song: “How Sweet to Wait Upon the Lord” – CCLI#5543210
How sweet to wait upon the Lord, while He fulfills His gracious word
To seek His face, and not in vain, to be so loved, and love again
CHORUS: Amen! Our hearts with rapture cry, may we with reverence look so high
Ascended Savior, fix our eyes, by faith upon this glorious prize
With this delightful prospect fired, we’ll run, nor in thy ways be tired
And all the trials here we see, will make us long to reign with Thee
To see, while prostrate at His feet, Jehovah on the mercy seat
And Jesus, at the Lord’s right hand, with His divine atonement stand!
“Father” he cries, “I will that these before thee on their bended knees
for whom my life I once laid down, be with me soon on this my throne.”
The Old Testament Lesson: 1 Kings 3:5-14. Matthew Elliott, Ruling Elder.
Affirmation of Faith: From 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21
We believe that all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. We also affirm that no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
The New Testament Lesson: Ephesians 1:3-8
Song: “Sweet Comfort” – CCLI #7041363
Whatever my God ordains is right, His holy will abides
I will be still whatever he does and follow where he guides
CHORUS: Sweet comfort, sweet comfort, yet shall fill my heart
Sweet comfort, sweet comfort, sorrow shall depart
Whatever my God ordains is right, He makes my feet to stand
Though sorrow, need, or death be mine, He holds me in his hand
He is my God though dark my road, He holds me, I shall not fall
Whatever my God ordains is right, to him I leave it all
Prayer for the Church: Dr. Michael Calvert, Teaching Elder
The Sermon: “Moving Toward Maturity in Christ: Part One.” Hebrews 5:11-6:1. Dr. Michael Calvert, Teaching Elder.
Confession of Sin:
Assurance of Pardon: From Romans 8:38-39
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
*Communion:
Song: “Marvelous Grace of Our Loving Lord” – Hymn 465 v.1-3
The Benediction: From Ephesians 6:24
May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. Amen!