Sunday Program

“Great Are Your Lord’

Welcome

Call to Worship 1 Peter 5:5b-7

Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

“Here I Am to Worship”

“Build My Life”

Prayer of Invocation and Praise

Scripture Reading James 4:13-17

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Corporate Confession of Faith

God of love, in the wrong we have done and in the good we have not done, we have sinned in ignorance; we have sinned in weakness; we have sinned through our own deliberate fault. We are truly sorry. We repent and turn to you. Forgive us and renew our lives through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” (#139)

Covenant Baptism

“Me On Your Mind”

Pastoral Prayer and Prayer of Illumination

Sermon: Proverbs 16:1-9

“The Wisdom of Submitting to God’s Sovereignty”, Dr. Mike Campbell

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. 2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. 3 Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. 4 The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. 5 Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished. 6 By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil. 7 When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. 9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

“O God, Our Help in Ages Past” (#686)

Benediction: Ephesians 3:20-21

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Proverbs 16:1-9:

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished. By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil. When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. 9 The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

Sermon Introduction:

Proverbs 9:10: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

1. Grasps the Reality of God’s Sovereignty

Steven Lawson: “The sovereignty of God is the free exercise of His supreme authority in executing and administrating His eternal purposes. God must be sovereign if He is to be truly God.”

Psalm 115:3: Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.

Verse 1: The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

Verse 9: The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.

Proverbs 19:21: Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.

Verse 2: All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.

Verse 4: The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

2. Rests in the Goodness of God’s Sovereignty

Verse 6: By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.

Verse 7: When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Romans 12:21: Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Verse 8: Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Verse 3: Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.

Verse 5: Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.