2023-Feb-19 3:00PM

Liturgy

  • Preservice Song: Hymn 66: 1-3
  • *Votum & Salutation
  • *Opening Song: Ps. 29: 1, 2, 3
  • Profession of Faith: Nicene Creed -Amen Song: Hymn 7: 1
  • Prayer
  • Reading of Scripture:
  • Song of Preparation: Hymn 42: 1-6
  • Reading: Belgic Confession 26
  • Ministry of the Word: Jesus Christ is the By God the Father Given Mediator. He is therefore:
    1. The only mediator
    2. The approachable and able mediator
  • *Song of Response: Hymn 40: 1, 3, 4
  • Thanksgiving Prayer
  • Offertory: MAF
  • *Song of Closing: Hymn 81: 1-7
  • *Benediction

Ministry of the Word: Jesus Christ is the By God the Father Given Mediator

1. The only mediator

  • We have no access to God except through the only mediator; Jesus Christ.
  • Jesus is unique; uniting human weaknesses with a divine nature. Heavenly majesty and a human dependency. Divine love and the human need for it.
  • Understanding the power of prayer requires understand what prayer is. Thanksgiving. Worship. But it's not really the prayer itself that is powerful, but the one to whom we pray. But the fact that we are able to speak to God through prayer gives it a kind of power.

2. The approachable and able mediator

  • Jesus' love for us makes Him approachable.