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The Preparation for WorshipLet us prepare our hearts for the worship of God.

“When they saw Him, they worshiped Him.” (Matthew 28:17)

Prelude

Silent Prayer

Welcome and Announcements

The Adoration of God

Call to Worship: Psalm 84:1, 2 “How lovely is Your tabernacle, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.”

*Psalm of Praise - Psalm 84

Speaker: The LORD is in His holy temple,
All: Let all the earth keep silence before Him. (Habakkuk 2:20)

*The Invocation and Lord’s Prayer

*The Hymn of Exaltation - Hymn 100
(Holy, Holy, Holy)

The Responsive Reading - Shorter Catechism 70-72, p.874

The Confession of Sin

The Call to Repentance - Hebrews 3:7-13

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years. Therefore I was angry with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’ So I swore in My wrath, ‘They shall not enter My rest.’” Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

The Prayer of Confession (after silent confession)

All: O LORD, do not rebuke us in Your anger, nor chasten us in Your hot displeasure. Have mercy on us, O LORD, for we are weak; our souls are greatly troubled. Return, O LORD, and deliver us. Save us for Your mercies’ sake, for we are weary with our groaning. May those who work iniquity depart from us, for You have heard the voice of our weeping. LORD, You have heard our supplication; You will receive our prayer. Let all who sin against You be ashamed and greatly troubled; let them turn back and be ashamed suddenly. Save us, we ask, in Jesus’ Name. Amen. (Psalm 6)

The Assurance of Pardon - Micah 7:18-19 “Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not keep His anger forever, because He delights in mercy. He will turn again; He will have pity on us. He will trample our iniquities. Yea, You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.”

*The Hymn of Gratitude - Hymn 634
(Sweet Hour of Prayer)

The Means of Grace

The Pastoral Prayer

The Worship of Giving

*The Doxology - Hymn 731

The Prayer of Illumination

The Scripture - Genesis 12:4-9

The Sermon - The Pilgrim Way

The Response and Blessing

*The Hymn of Consecration - Hymn 252
(When I Survey the Wondrous Cross)

*The Benediction

* Congregation Standing

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