Prelude: O for a Heart to Praise My God Edwin Childs

Aubry Ballaro, soprano

Call to Worship

Doxology Old Hundredth

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise him, all creatures here below;

Praise him above, ye heav’nly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Prayer of Confession

O God our Father, forgive us for thinking less of you than we ought; for we think your truth too high, your will too hard, and your power too remote; but they are not! We humbly ask that you resolve our confused minds with your word, redirect our divided wills with your law, restore our troubled consciences with your forgiveness, and revive our anxious hearts with your presence, for the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. Amen.

The Gospel’s Assurance of Pardon: Romans 8:33–34

Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

Invocation

Hymn 78: O Bless the Lord, My Soul St. Michael

O bless the Lord, my soul; let all within me join,
and aid my tongue to bless his name, whose favors are divine.

O bless the Lord, my soul, nor let his mercies lie
forgotten in unthankfulness, and without praises die.

‘Tis he forgives your sins, ‘tis he relieves your pain,
‘tis he that heals your sicknesses and makes you young again.

He crowns your life with love when ransomed from the grave;
he that redeemed my soul from hell has sovereign pow’r to save.

He fills the poor with good; he gives the suff’rers rest:
the Lord has judgments for the proud and justice for th’oppressed.

His wondrous works and ways he made by Moses known,
but sent the world his truth and grace by his beloved Son.

Responsive Reading: Psalm 114

When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.
The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
What ails you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, that you turn back?
O mountains, that you skip like rams? O hills, like lambs?
Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turns the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

Gloria Patri Meineke

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;

as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, Amen.

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell. The third day he rose again from the dead. He ascended into ­­heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.

Prayer of Intercession (concluding with The Lord’s Prayer)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Announcements

Hymn 308: Jesus Paid It All All To Christ

I hear the Savior say, “Your strength indeed is small,
child of weakness, watch and pray, find in me your all in all.”

(Refrain)
Jesus paid it all, all to him I owe;
sin had left a crimson stain, he washed it white as snow.

Lord, now indeed I find your power, and yours alone,
can change the leper’s spots, and melt the heart of stone. (Refrain)

For nothing good have I whereby thy grace to claim —
I’ll wash my garments white in the blood of Calv’ry’s lamb. (Refrain)

And when, before the throne, I stand in him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,” my lips shall still repeat. (Refrain)

Offering Prayer

(In person offerings may be made via the oak boxes. Give online at tenth.org/give or mail checks to:
1701 Delancey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103)

Offertory: It Is Well arr. Craig Courtney Aubry Ballaro, soprano

Scripture Reading: Psalm 94

O Lord, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth! 2 Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve! 3 O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult? 4 They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast. 5 They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage. 6 They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless; 7 and they say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive.” 8 Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? 9 He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see? 10 He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— 11 the Lord—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. 12 Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law, 13 to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. 14 For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; 15 for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 16 Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? 17 If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence. 18 When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up. 19 When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul. 20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you, those who frame injustice by statute? 21 They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn the innocent to death. 22 But the Lord has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge. 23 He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Sermon: The Judge of All the Earth Dr. Liam Goligher

Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

Words of Institution

Partaking of the Elements

Proclamation of the Mystery of our Faith: Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again!

Hymn 298: The Head that Once Was Crowned with Thorns St. Magnus

The head that once was crowned with thorns is crowned with glory now;
a royal diadem adorns the mighty Victor’s brow.

The highest place that heav’n affords is his, is his by right,
the King of kings and Lord of lords, and heav’n’s eternal Light:

The joy of all who dwell above, the joy of all below;
to whom he manifests his love, and grants his name to know.

To them the cross, with all its shame, with all its grace, is giv’n;
their name an everlasting name, their joy the joy of heav’n.

They suffer with their Lord below, they reign with him above;
their profit and their joy to know the myst’ry of his love.

The cross he bore is life and health, though shame and death to him;
his people’s hope, his people’s wealth, their everlasting theme.

Benediction

Postlude: Ellacombe arr. Albert Travis

Serving today:
Travers Oliver, 9:00am platform
George McFarland, 11:00am platform
Colin Howland, organist

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