Worship Service for April 5, 2020 at 11:30 AM

Welcome

Opening Song: All Glory Laud and Honor

Refrain:

All glory, laud, and honor To You, Redeemer, King,

To whom the lips of children Made sweet hosannas ring.

 

Verse 1:

You are the King of Israel And David’s royal Son,

Now in the Lord’s Name coming, Our King and Blessèd One.

 

(Refrain)

 

Verse 2:

The multitude of pilgrims With palms before You went:

Our praise and prayers and anthems Before You we present.

 

(Refrain)

 

Verse 3:

To you before Your passion They sang their hymns of praise;

To You, now high exalted, Our melody we raise.

 

(Refrain)

 

Invocation

P: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen

Confession and Forgiveness:

P: Come into the presence of the Lord our God.

C: Have mercy, O Lord. If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

P: If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

C: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

(a time of silence to reflect and personally confess our sins)

P: I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And you forgave the guilt of my sin. Let us confess our sin before the Lord.

C: Heavenly Father, we confess that we are sinners.  We have sinned against you and our neighbors. We have not loved you with our whole heart and we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We justly deserve Your punishment.  For the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.  Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will and walk in Your ways to the glory of Your holy name.  Amen.

P: The Lord is gracious and merciful. He promises to forgive our sins. Therefore, upon this, your confession, as a called and ordained servant of the Lord, in the stead and by the command of my Lord, Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen.

P: This is the day that the Lord has made;

C: let us rejoice and be glad in it.

P: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

C: We bless you from the house of the Lord.

P: The Lord is God,

C: and he has made his light to shine upon us.

P: You are my God, and I will give thanks to you;

C: you are my God; I will extol you.

P: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;

C: for his steadfast love endures forever!

Gospel Reading – John 12:12-18

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.

Sermon – “The King Who Would Die”

Philippians 2:5-11

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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 Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The third day he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God
the Father almighty.
From there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Christian Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,

and the life everlasting. Amen.

Prayers

The Lord’s Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.  Amen

Benediction

Closing Song: How Great Is Our God

Verse 1:

The splendor of a King, clothed in majesty

Let all the earth rejoice, all the earth rejoice

He wraps himself in light, and darkness tries to hide

And trembles at His voice, trembles at His voice

 

Chorus:

How great is our God, sing with me

How great is our God all will see

How great, how great is our God

 

Verse 2:

Age to age He stands, and time is in His hands

Beginning and the end, beginning at the end

The Godhead, three in one, Father, Spirit, Son

The Lion and the Lamb, the Lion and the Lamb.

 

(Chorus)

 

Bridge:

Name above all names, Worthy of all praise,

My heart will sing How great is our God Chorus with Bridge

 

(Chorus)

 

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