Service Program

“God of Wonders”

Welcome

Call to Worship 1 Chronicles 29:11-13

Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. 13 And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Prayer of Invocation and Confession of Sin

“Wonderful Maker”

Scripture Reading Isaiah 42:5-9

Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it: 6 “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations, 7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness. 8 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. 9 Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”

Confession of Faith Westminster Shorter Catechism Q 1

Question: “What is the chief end of man?”

Answer: “Man’s chief end is to Glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.”

“Holy Forever”

New Member and Covenant Baptisms

“How Beautiful”

Pastoral Prayer

“How Great Thou Art” (# 147, stanzas 1, 3-4)

Sermon, “The Glory of the Lord”, Dr. Mike Campbell

Habakkuk 3:1-6

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. 2 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. 5 Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels. 6 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.

“To God Be the Glory” (Trinity Hymnal #55)

Benediction Romans 11:36

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.

Gloria Patri

Habakkuk 3:1-6:

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. 2 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. 5 Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels. 6 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.

Sermon Introduction:

Psalm 73:4-9: For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek. 5 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. 6 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. 7 Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies. 8 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression. 9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

Psalm 73:16-17: But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.

Chapter 2, Verse 20: But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”

1. From Complaining to Prayer

Verse 1:

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.

(When I mention the words “Selah” and “Shigionoth”, soon after the reading of verse 1, please put them on the screen.)

“Selah”

“Shigionoth”

Verse 1:

1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet

Verse 2a:

2 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear.

Verse 2b:

2 In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.

Luke 18:9-14:

9 He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10 “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ 13 But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

2. From Complaining to Praise

Martin Luther: “Your thoughts of God are too human.”

Verse 3a: God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah

Verses 3b-6: His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power. 5 Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels. 6 He stood and measured the earth; he looked and shook the nations; then the eternal mountains were scattered; the everlasting hills sank low. His were the everlasting ways.

Verse 3b: His splendor covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

Verse 6b: His were the everlasting ways.

Westminster Confession of Faith 2:1: There is but one only, living, and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions; immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute; working all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them that diligently seek him; and withal, most just, and terrible in his judgments, hating all sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty.