Afternoon Worship Service

Welcome and Preparation for Worship

Prelude: Violin Concerto in a minor: Andante Johann Sebastian Bach Tom Jackson, violin; Bob Yang, piano

Call to Worship: Psalm 96:7–9

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth!

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.

Invocation

Hymn 164: O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing Azmon

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer’s praise,
the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace.

My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim,
to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name.

Jesus, the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease;
‘tis music in the sinner’s ears, ‘tis life and health and peace.

He breaks the pow’r of reigning sin, he sets the pris’ner free;
his blood can make the foulest clean, his blood availed for me.

He speaks and, list’ning to his voice, new life the dead receive;
the mournful, broken hearts rejoice; the humble poor believe.

Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, your loosen’d tongues employ;
ye blind, behold your Savior come; and leap, ye lame, for joy.

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.

Announcements

Multilingual Prayer

Sacrament of Baptism

Joseph Charles Pellerite V born February 1, 2020; son of Liz and Joe Pellerite

Hymn 653: Jesus Is All the World to Me Elizabeth

Jesus is all the world to me, my life, my joy, my all;
he is my strength from day to day, without him I would fall.
When I am sad, to him I go, no other one can cheer me so;
when I am sad, he makes me glad, he’s my Friend.

Jesus is all the world to me, my Friend in trials sore;
I go to him for blessings, and he gives them o’er and o’er.
He sends the sunshine and the rain, he sends the harvest’s golden grain;
sunshine and rain, harvest of grain, he’s my Friend.

Jesus is all the world to me, and true to him I’ll be;
oh, how could I this Friend deny, when he’s so true to me?
Following him I know I’m right, he watches o’er me day and night;
following him, by day and night, he’s my Friend.

Jesus is all the world to me, I want no better friend;
I trust him now, I’ll trust him when life’s fleeting days shall end.
Beautiful life with such a Friend; beautiful life that has no end;
eternal life, eternal joy, he’s my Friend.

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: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13: Adagio Cantabile Ludwig van Beethoven Bob Yang, piano

Scripture Reading: 2 Thessalonians 2:1–17

1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth. 14 To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter. 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

Sermon: Do Not Be Alarmed Dr. Enrique Leal

Hymn: Wonderful, Merciful Savior Dawn Rodgers/Eric Wyse

Wonderful, merciful Savior, precious Redeemer and Friend,
who would have thought that a Lamb could rescue the souls of men?
Oh, you rescue the souls of men.

Refrain
You are the One that we praise; you are the One we adore;
you give the healing and grace our hearts always hunger for;
oh, our hearts always hunger for.

Counselor, Comforter, Keeper, Spirit we long to embrace,
you offer hope when our hearts have hopelessly lost the way;
oh, we hopelessly lost the way. (Refrain)

Almighty, infinite Father, faithfully loving your own,
here, in our weakness, you find us falling before your throne;
oh, we’re falling before your throne. (Refrain)

Benediction

Postlude: Sonata no.3: Allegro assai Johann Sebastian Bach Tom Jackson, violin