But This He Spoke of the Spirit

Prelude                                                                   

Welcome and Announcements

Testimony and Call to Office

Jonah Cope (Elder Candidate, Re-election)

Introit                                                                                               Choir

Please use this time to set your hearts on Christ and pray for the Word, our worship, and that holiness and reverence will be known among us.             

“Hiraeth”

Daniel Protheroe (1866-1934)

As the deer pants for flowing streams, So longs my soul for You.

I thirst for God, the living God; When can I meet anew?

My tears have been my constant food Both in the night and day;

While all day long insistently, “Where is this God?” they say.

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why are you so distraught?

Trust God, for I will praise Him yet; My Savior and my God.  Amen

Taken from Welsh and English Hymns and Anthems (Reformatted) © 1995 The Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association, Inc., 662 Melwood Drive N.E., Warren, OH 44483.

Call to Worship*                                                         Psalm 150 (ESV)

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Hymn of Praise*                                                                            #598

“Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”

Invocation*

Confession of Faith                                              The Nicene Creed

I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. 

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. 

Who, for us men and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; He suffered and was buried; and the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. 

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets. 

And I believe one holy Christian and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

AMEN.

Preparation for Confession of Sin    

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NASB 2015)

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Confession of Sin

Assurance of Pardon              1 Corinthians 6:11 (NASB 2015)

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Hymn of Assurance*                                                                #495

“No, Not Despairingly Come I to Thee”

Taking of Vows by New Communicant Members

Darris Kaufman

Jessie and Nikki Bland

New Non-Communicant Members

Makayla Shelton

Matthew Shelton

Lucas Shelton

Giving of Tithes and Offerings                                 

Prayer of Response

Scripture Reading*                      

Psalm 46; Acts 2:14-21, 33

Hymn of Preparation*                              #304

“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”

Preaching of God’s Word                                  Pastor Jim Claycomb

“But This He Spoke of the Spirit”

John 7:37-39

Hymn of Affirmation*                                                                    #345

“Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken”

Benedictory Blessing*                                                               

“Gloria Patri”                                                                                #735**

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.

Taken from "Trinity Hymnal Revised Edition", ©1990 Great Commission Publications, Inc. Used by permission

Postlude*