John 11:1-44
Hebrews 2:14-18 - Delivered from the Fear of Death
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ORDER OF WORSHIP for RESURRECTION SUNDAY
OPENING PSALM (Psalm 16)
1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”
3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
4 The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.
5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.
6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
7 I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me.
8 I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.
10 For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.
11 You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
SONG OF ADORATION (CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY)
PRAYER OF ADORATION
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. Philippians 2:5-11)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Sovereignty, Goodness, Justice, Faithfulness, etc.)
CALL TO CONFESSION (Colossians 3:1-5)
If then you have been raised with Christ,
seek the things that are above,
where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God.
Set your minds on things that are above,
not on things that are on earth.
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
When Christ who is your life appears,
then you also will appear with him in glory
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:
sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire,
and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God 'to search your heart and try your thoughts' and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Our Heavenly Father,
You have brought us again to this glad season to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus,
whom You raised from the dead and crowned Lord of all.
We confess that we have been slow to believe,
and we have not joyfully acknowledged His rule over us as we ought.
We have set our minds on things here below
and failed to seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated.
Forgive us, O God, and renew us in the joy of Easter triumph
so that we would continually live as new creations in Christ.
Grant us by your resurrection power to live lives that honor You
and advance the mission of our resurrected King.
Through Christ, our Risen Lord, we pray, Amen.
ASSURANCE OF GRACE IN CHRIST (1 Peter 1:3-5)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
According to his great mercy,
he has caused us to be born again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading,
kept in heaven for you,
who by God's power are being guarded
through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
SONG OF THANKSGIVING (HE WILL HOLD ME FAST)
SCRIPTURE READING (Hebrews 2:14-18)
14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery. 16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham. 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
SERMON (Delivered from the Fear of Death)
SONG OF RESPONSE (Before the Throne of God Above)
CONFESSION OF FAITH (Heidelberg Catechism Q. 45)
How does Christ’s resurrection benefit us?
First, by his resurrection he has overcome death, so that he could make us share in the righteousness which he had obtained for us by his death.
Second, by his power we too are raised up to newness of life.
Third, Christ’s resurrection is a sure pledge of our glorious resurrection.
PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD
Pray that as Christ has been raised to new life, we would walk in newness of life, honoring our Risen King in all that we do.
Think of an area of your life in particular where you need grace to live as a new creation in Christ.
Pray that those who are without the hope of Christ’s victory over death would come to know Him who is the Resurrection and the Life.
Think of someone that you know personally and pray that they would come to know Christ.
Pray that all who are grieving the loss of a loved one would grieve as those who have hope and would look forward to the day when Christ makes all things new.
Think of someone in particular in your life (or even you personally) and pray this for them
DEPARTING SONG (Doxology)
PRAYER OF BLESSING
May God be our exceeding joy,
Christ our only hope,
the Spirit our unfailing comforter
in all our worship,
in all our work,
and through all our trials
until Jesus comes again.
Amen.
GIVING OF OFFERING
We would kindly ask, that despite our inability to gather, that you would maintain your financial support of Sand Harbor. We know that many of you give by providing a physical check when we take our offering during worship and so here are some alternatives that you can utilize:
You can mail a physical check to our P.O. Box:
Sand Harbor Presbyterian Church
P.O. Box 3187 Tequesta, FL 33469
You can set up an automatically generated check through your banking system (kind of like a bill pay) and send it to our P.O. Box
Or you can give online through our secure online giving tool by going sandharborpca.org/giving
Luke 19:37-40 - Blessed is the King
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ORDER OF WORSHIP for PALM SUNDAY
What is Palm Sunday? Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter that begins the Holy Week. It is a commemoration of the day Jesus entered into Jerusalem as Savior and King. As Jesus rode a donkey into the town of Jerusalem a large crowd gathered and laid palm branches and their cloaks across the road, giving Jesus royal treatment. The hundreds of people shouted "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!"
OPENING PSALM (Psalm 118:1, 19-24)
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever...
Open to me the gates of righteousness,
that I may enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord;
the righteous shall enter through it.
I thank you that you have answered me
and have become my salvation.
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.
This is the Lord's doing;
it is marvelous in our eyes.
This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Save us, we pray, O Lord!
O Lord, we pray, give us success!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
We bless you from the house of the Lord.
The Lord is God,
and he has made his light to shine upon us.
Bind the festal sacrifice with cords,
up to the horns of the altar!
You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;
you are my God; I will extol you.
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!
SONG OF ADORATION (WHATE’ER MY GOD ORDAINS IS RIGHT)
This will be a new song to most of you so play through it once and meditate on the rich truths in the lyrics as your try and pick up the melody, then play it through a second time and try sing along with it.
PRAYER OF ADORATION
At this point you can pause to offer your own prayer of adoration and praise to God. To help prompt you to pray a prayer of praise ask yourself one of the following questions:
What Scriptural passage about who God is can I turn into a prayer of praise? (e.g. Job 9:4-12)
What character or attribute of God can I focus on and give Him praise for? (e.g. His Sovereignty, Goodness, Justice, Faithfulness, etc.)
CALL TO CONFESSION (Jeremiah 2:11-13)
Has a nation changed its gods,
even though they are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory
for that which does not profit.
Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,
for my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Reflect on the passage above and ask God 'to search your heart and try your thoughts' and confess the ways that you have fallen short of His glory in thought, word, and deed.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION
Our Heavenly Father,
Forgive us for we have not loved you with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
We have not thirsted after you as the deer thirsts for streams of water.
Your presence and Your glory has not been the supreme desire of our hearts.
We have worshipped and served the creation rather than the Creator. We have crafted idols in our heart.
Help us to remember that there is nothing on earth that compares with You and that we have no good apart from You.
Keep us from idols and bind our wandering hearts to Thee.
In the Name of Christ we pray, Amen.
ASSURANCE OF GRACE IN CHRIST (Ezekiel 36:25-27)
I will sprinkle clean water on you,
and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses,
and from all your idols I will cleanse you.
And I will give you a new heart,
and a new spirit I will put within you.
And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my Spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes
and be careful to obey my rules.
SONG OF THANKSGIVING (O Great God)
SCRIPTURE READING (Luke 19:37-40)
37 As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, 38 saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” 39 And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” 40 He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
SERMON (Blessed is the King)
SONG OF RESPONSE (Crown Him with Many Crowns)
CONFESSION OF FAITH (COLOSSIANS 1:15-20)
Christian, what do you believe concerning the Lord Jesus Christ?
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things were created through him and for him.
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD
Pray that….
God would use this health epidemic to show people that He is the Father of Compassion and the God of all Comfort.
God would give Christian doctors, nurses, and first responders opportunities to share the Gospel with those who are suffering.
God would enable and give wisdom to the researchers and doctors who are seeking to discover new treatment plans and a vaccine for this virus.
God would use this to teach us that as wonderful as our healthcare system is and as advanced as modern medicine is it cannot ultimately defeat death, only Christ can.
