February 20, 2022

The mystery hidden from ages and generations

Speaker: Jim Claycomb Series: Colossians Topic: Expository Scripture: Colossians 1:24– 2:3

“LORD, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were born, or Thou didst give birth to the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting Thou art God.”

—Psalm 90:1-2

Prelude

Welcome and Announcements

Introit Choir

“Adoration”

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!

Bow down before Him, His glory proclaim;

With gold of obedience and incense of lowliness,

kneel and adore Him: the Lord is His name!

Fear not to enter His presence in poverty,

Bearing no gifts to present as your own.

Bring truth in its beauty and love in its purity

These are the off’rings to lay at his throne. Amen.

Call to Worship* Psalm 139:1-6

“O LORD, You have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; You understand my thought from afar. You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O LORD, You know it all. You have enclosed me behind and before, and laid Your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is too high, I cannot attain to it..”

Psalm of Praise* #90A

“Lord, You Have Been Our Dwelling Place”

Invocation*

Confession of Faith Psalm 139:7-16

“Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

Even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me.

If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,’

Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.

I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.

My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.”

Confession of Sin Romans 6:1-2, 12-16

“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ...Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?”

Silent Confession of Sin & Corporate Confession of Sin

Assurance of Pardon Romans 6:17-23

“But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Hymn of Assurance* #585

“Take My Life, and Let It Be” (v. 1-3)

Giving of Tithes and Offerings

(Please fill out the fellowship pads at this time and pass them down the aisle.)

Prayer of Response

Scripture Reading*

Psalm 139:17-18, 23-24; Ephesians 3:3-14

Doxology*

Praise God from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him all creatures here below;

Alleluia, alleluia!

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

Preaching of God’s Word Pastor Jim Claycomb

“The Mystery hidden from ages and generations”

Colossians 1:24-2:3

Hymn of Affirmation #523

“My Hope Is In the Lord” (v. 1-3)

Blessing* 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24, 28

“Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass... The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.“

Benediction*

“Gloria Patri”

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.

Postlude*