The Day of Pentecost May 19, 2024
Welcome & Announcements
*Call to Worship: Psalm 139:1-16 (pg. 618)
*Opening Prayer …………………………………………….. pg. 2
OPENING HYMN ------------------------------------------------- # 197
“Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
*Confession of Sins ……………………………..................... pg. 2
*Kyrie …………………………………………………….…. pg. 3
*Declaration of Grace …………………………………..…… pg. 3
Scripture Lessons: 1st Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14 (pg. 860)
2nd Reading: Acts 2:14-21 (pg. 1081)
*The Gospel: John 15:26-16:15 (pg. 1072)
*Response to the Gospel …………………………………..… pg. 3
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed ………………... pg. 4
*Gloria Patri …………………………………………………. pg. 4
The Offering
*Response: “Create in Me A Clean Heart O God” ……..….. pg. 17
*Prayers of the Church
HYMN --------------------------------------------------------------- # 201
“The Love of God”
Sermon: “Everyone Who Calls Upon His Name”
THE CLOSING HYMN ------------------------------------------- # 124
“Open My Eyes, That I May See”
*The Lord’s Prayer ………………………………………….. pg. 5
*The Benediction ………………………………..…………... pg. 5
*Three-fold Amen ………………………………...…………. pg. 5
THE DOXOLOGY ……………………………...………….. # 390
Organ Postlude
WE CORDIALLY WELCOME all who have come to worship with us this morning, especially our guests and visitors. May our Father’s mercy in Jesus assure you of the forgiveness of all your sins. If you have not established your church home in our area, we are anxious to share with you all the blessings which God gives us through His Word. We ask that you please sign our guest book, and we hope that you return to worship with us again soon.
Announcements
This month our memory hymn is #201 "The Love of God" and our memory verse is John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might
be saved through Him."
Today we welcome the Gideons sharing an update about their ministry work. Please follow up directly with our speaker for how you can best support their work through prayer, financially, or by volunteering.
Following the service today, we will spend time studying and discussing "God's Will for Sex and Marriage"
The WMF Meeting will be moved to Wed., June 5th, at 7:00 p.m.
This week’s activities:
26th – Sun. – Worship, 9:00 a.m., Sunday School 10:00
a.m.
27th – Mon. – Memorial Day
Service, 9:00 a.m.
CHURCH CLEANING: May 20 – 26 Joyce Sprecher & Kathy Lau
*Call to Worship: Psalm 139:1-16
1 You have searched me, Lord, and
you know me.
2 You know when
I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and
my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
5 You
hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too
wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If
I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in
the depths, you are there.
9 If
I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side
of the sea,
10 even there
your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the
darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be
dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for
darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I
praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your
works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I
was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the
depths of the earth.
16 Your
eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were
written in your book
before one of them came to be.
1st Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14
37 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army. 11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”
2nd Reading: Acts 2:14-21
14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17 “‘In the last days, God says, I
will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will
prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream
dreams.
18 Even on my servants, both
men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they
will prophesy.
19 I will show wonders
in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire
and billows of smoke.
20 The sun will
be turned to darkness and the moon to blood
before the
coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.
21 And everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.’
*The Gospel: John 15:26-16:15
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
16 “All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me. 4 I have told you this, so that when their time comes you will remember that I warned you about them. I did not tell you this from the beginning because I was with you, 5 but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 Rather, you are filled with grief because I have said these things. 7 But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. 8 When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 about sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; 11 and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned. 12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”