Posted on Jul 27, 2024 in Bulletin |
What Are We To Make Of This
- Welcome | Announcements
- Tue @ 6:45am – Men’s Bible Study
- July 14 – Church Picnic
- July 28 – School Supplies deadline for Kendall County Community Food Pantry
- Aug 18 – Ice Cream Social
- Welcoming the Light of Christ
- Opening Prayer
- Call To Worship – Excerpt from Vanderbilt Divinity Library
- Steadfast God, your prophets set the plumb line of your righteousness and truth in the midst of your people.
- Grant us the courage to judge ourselves against it.
- Straighten all that is crooked or warped within us until our hearts and souls stretch upright, blameless and holy, to meet the glory of Christ.
- Amen.
- Worship Hymns
- TFWS 2022 – Great Is The Lord
- TFWS 2032 – My Life Is In You
- OGRP 29 – Wonderful Merciful Savior
- Offering
- Prayer Hymn
- Intercessory Prayer
- Sermon – “What Are We To Make Of This”
- [2 Samuel 6:1-5 ESV]
- 1 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
- 2 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.
- 3 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart,
- 4 with the ark of God, and Ahio went before the ark.
- 5 And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
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- [Psalm 24:1-10 ESV]
- A Psalm of David.
- 1 The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,
- 2 for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.
- 3 Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
- 4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
- 5 He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
- 6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
- Selah
- 7 Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
- 8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!
- 9 Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.
- 10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory!
- Selah
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- [Amos 7:7-15 ESV]
- 7 This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
- 8 And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;
- 9 the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
- 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
- 11 For thus Amos has said, “‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'”
- 12 And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,
- 13 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
- 14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.
- 15 But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
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- [Psalm 85:8-13 ESV]
- 8 Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.
- 9 Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
- 10 Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.
- 11 Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.
- 12 Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
- 13 Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.
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- [Ephesians 1:3-14 ESV]
- 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
- 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
- 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
- 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
- 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
- 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
- 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
- 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
- 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
- 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
- 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
- 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
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- [Mark 6:14-29 ESV]
- 14 King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”
- 15 But others said, “He is Elijah.” And others said, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”
- 16 But when Herod heard of it, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”
- 17 For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.
- 18 For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
- 19 And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,
- 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.
- 21 But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.
- 22 For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”
- 23 And he vowed to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”
- 24 And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”
- 25 And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
- 26 And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.
- 27 And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prison
- 28 and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
- 29 When his disciples heard of it, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.
- Communion
- Closing Hymn
- TFWS 2282 – I’ll Fly Away
- Benediction
- Postlude