First United Presbyterian Church
Outdoor Worship
10:00am Sunday, July 26, 2020
Bailey Retreat
10600 95th Street
Coal Valley, Illinois
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Giving of Tithes and Offerings
An offering will not be taken during the worship service today. You are able to give online, through the mail, or through your bank’s bill pay service. In this time of need, your financial support is greatly appreciated.
Prelude
Welcome & Prayer
Jim Sanderlin, Director of Worship
Call to Worship
Solo:
I wait- my soul waits for the Lord;
my hope is in His Word.
More than the watchman waits for dawn
my soul waits for the Lord.
from Sing Psalms
©2003 Free Church of Scotland
hymns of praise
I Will Wait for You (Psalm 130)
by Jordan Kauflin, Matt Merker, Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
©2018 Getty Music
Out of the depths I cry to You,
From darkest places I will call.
Incline Your ear to me anew
And hear my cry for mercy, Lord.
Were you to count my sinful ways
How could I come before Your throne?
Yet full forgiveness meets my gaze;
I stand redeemed by grace alone.
I will wait for You, I will wait for You,
On Your word, I will rely.
I will wait for You, surely wait for You
Till my soul is satisfied.
So put your hope in God alone.
Take courage in His power to save,
Completely and forever won,
By Christ’s emerging from the grave.
I will wait for You, I will wait for You,
On Your word, I will rely.
I will wait for You, surely wait for You
Till my soul is satisfied.
Now He has come to make a way
And God Himself has paid the price
That all who trust in Him today
Find healing in His sacrifice.
I will wait for You, I will wait for You,
Through the storm, and through the night.
I will wait for You, surely wait for You,
For Your love is my delight.
Jesus Saves by David Moffitt & Travis Cottrell ©2007 New Spring Music
Freedom’s calling, chains are falling,
Hope is dawning bright and true.
Day is breaking, night is quaking,
God is making all things new.
Jesus saves.
Hear the heart of Heaven beating,
”Jesus saves, Jesus saves.”
And the hush of mercy breathing,
”Jesus saves, Jesus saves.”
Hear the host of angels sing:
”Glory to the newborn King!”
And the sounding joy repeating,
”Jesus saves.”
See the humblest hearts adore Him.
Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
And the wisest bow before Him.
Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
See the sky alive with praise,
Melting darkness in its blaze.
There is light forevermore in
”Jesus saves.”
Freedom’s calling, chains are falling,
Hope is dawning bright and true.
Day is breaking, night is quaking,
God is making all things new.
Jesus saves.
He will live, our sorrow sharing.
Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
He will die our burden bearing.
Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
”It is done!” will shout the cross,
”Christ has paid redemption’s cost!”
While the empty tomb’s declaring,
”Jesus saves!”
O to grace, how great a debtor,
Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
All the saints who shout together,
”Jesus saves, Jesus saves.”
Rising up so vast and strong,
Lifting up salvation’s song,
The redeemed will sing forever,
”Jesus saves!”
Freedom’s calling, chains are falling,
Hope is dawning bright and true.
Day is breaking, night is quaking,
God is making all things new.
Jesus saves.
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
We’re told in Holy Scripture that
“...Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any suchthing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” (Ephesians 5:25-27)
Church, let us arise and go forward in this reality: that our sins are forgiven by the Lord Jesus Christ and together we work to build His kingdom as we press on towards glory.
Hymn of Assurance
The Church’s One Foundation
words: Samuel J. Stone, 1866
music: Brian Moss
©1996 Parson John Publishing
The church’s one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord,
she is His new creation
by water and the Word.
From Heav’n He came and sought her
to be His holy bride,
with His own blood He bought her
and for her life He died.
Elect from ev'ry nation,
yet one o’er all the earth;
her charter of salvation:
one Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.
’Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace forevermore.
Till with the vision glorious,
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest!
OLD Testament Reading
Isaiah 42:18-25 Doug Peterson
Israel's Failure to Hear and See
18 Hear, you deaf,
and look, you blind, that you may see!
19 Who is blind but my servant,
or deaf as my messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as my dedicated one,
or blind as the servant of the Lord?
20 He sees many things, but does not observe them;
his ears are open, but he does not hear.
21 The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake,
to magnify his law and make it glorious.
22 But this is a people plundered and looted;
they are all of them trapped in holes
and hidden in prisons;
they have become plunder with none to rescue,
spoil with none to say, “Restore!”
23 Who among you will give ear to this,
will attend and listen for the time to come?
24 Who gave up Jacob to the looter,
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,
in whose ways they would not walk,
and whose law they would not obey?
25 So he poured on him the heat of his anger
and the might of battle;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
it burned him up, but he did not take it to heart.
Congregational Prayer and the lord’s prayer
Stuart Neagle
Sermon
Live by the Spirit: the Evident Contrast
Galatians 5:16-25
Steve Miller, Intentional Interim Pastor
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
hymn of response
Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart
words: George Croly music: Frederick C. Atkinson
Spirit of God, descend upon my heart;
Wean it from earth; through all its pulses move;
Stoop to my weakness, mighty as Thou art;
And make me love Thee as I ought to love.
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear.
To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh,
Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.
Teach me to love Thee as Thine angels love,
One holy passion filling all my frame;
The kindling of the heaven descended Dove,
My heart an altar, and Thy love the flame.
Benediction
CCLI 206793