28th June 2020 Trinity 3 (Pentecost 4) Here are another series of elements to make an act of Opening scripture: worship for us to engage with as we grow as disciples on “Jesus said, “Anyone who drinks this water will soon this second Sunday after celebrating the coming of the become thirsty again. But those who drink the water third person of God the Holy Trinity to empower our I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, mission bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”” (John 4.13-14) It’s another smorgasbord pick and mix: you do with it as you wish. Don’t try to do it all in one sitting! Pray, thanking the Father for Jesus’ risen presence with It could last all week. You might do one reading and set of you, asking for His Spirit so you can worship the Father in songs a day…… Spirit and truth (John 4.23). For songs, where possible, I’ve suggested: Risen Lord Jesus Christ • A traditional hymn, As we rejoice in the gift of this new day, • a more contemporary song, may the light of your risen presence • and an adventurous alternative: set our hearts on fire with love for you; you choose which you use! Just click on the underlined links, turn your device sound now and for ever. Amen. up loud, and singalong!! You can also find your own choice in the internet! New Every Morning is the Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SydbCDMK1cU The Steadfast Love of the Lord Never Ceases Worship isn’t a spectator sport, it’s a full-engagement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lZdd7X7dk activity between us and God, who we encounter in New Every Morning is the Love, Audrey Assad relationship as Father, Son, and Spirit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grz3Hxw9GWU New Every Morning is the Love, In Old Testament times, they needed a human priest to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYyZCCs5bJc mediate, then a stone temple to worship in, but after the resurrection we Christians are all priests, and we Collect (Special prayer) Christians all have God living in our lives. Christians need Almighty God, no mediator and we are the temple! you have broken the tyranny of sin This Sunday, we’re looking at the high expectations Jesus and have sent the Spirit of your Son into our hearts has of his followers, but how that high expectation is whereby we call you Father: empowered, enabled, by the indwelling presence of the Spirit of Christ, the Father’s gift, Holy Spirit. We still have give us grace to dedicate our freedom to your to pedal, but when you have a powerful battery and service, that we and all creation may be brought to motor on board, the hills, including being divided from the glorious liberty of the children of God; ‘the world’ are made relatively easy. through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen The Word of God We Praise Thee O God (Te Deum) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8UllNR-E9g St Paul says; ‘The kingdom of God is not a matter of I could sing of your love forever talk but of power.’ (1st Corinthians 4.20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCwwaciAA8 Through our lives and by our prayers Love so high https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5RyAd7EM8U may your kingdom come. I Lift My Hands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8ntv3hxd4 Psalm 89.1-4, 15-18 [or 8-18] A Hymn in Time of National Trouble Soon after Zedekiah, son of Josiah the righteous, was The full psalm is 50 verses, praising God’s love even in made king (597BC), God told Jeremiah to make himself a hard times. It remembers God’s promise to establish yoke, and to fasten it on his neck (Jer 27.1-2). God gave David’s line forever, which we understand to be through him a message contrary to pop culture that they, and all Jesus. The rest of the psalm continues the promise in conquered nations, should accept Babylon’s rule for the detail, then from v.30 recognises that if David himself, or time being. God had warned of Nebuchadnezzar’s his descendants or people walked out from under God’s conquest if God’s people walked out from under God’s protecting covenant, going their own way, they will loose protection. He warned now that if they didn’t submit, their blessings, and God will be hidden from them… utter destruction would follow. Hezekiah didn’t listen, 1 O Lord, I will always sing of your constant love; and Jerusalem was destroyed. Hezekiah’s epitaph was I will proclaim your faithfulness forever. “He did evil in the sight of the Lord (2Kings 24.19) 2 I know that your love will last for all time, that your faithfulness is as permanent as the sky. 3 You said, “I have made a covenant with the man I chose; I have promised my servant David: 4 ‘A descendant of yours will always be king; I will preserve your dynasty forever.’” Selah (stop and think) 5 The heavens sing of the wonderful things you do; the holy ones sing of your faithfulness, Lord. 6 No one in heaven is like you, Lord; none of the heavenly beings is your equal. 7 You are feared in the council of the holy ones; they all stand in awe of you. 8 Lord God Almighty, none is as mighty as you; in all things you are faithful, O Lord. 9 You rule over the powerful sea; you calm its angry waves. 10 You crushed the monster Rahab and killed it; with your mighty strength you defeated your enemies. 11 Heaven is yours, the earth also; you made the world and everything in it. 12 You created the north and the south; Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon sing to you for joy. 13 How powerful you are! How great is your strength! Overview: Jeremiah, Bible Project 14 Your kingdom is founded on righteousness and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSK36cHbrk0 justice; love and faithfulness are shown in all you do. Jeremiah 28.5-9 (GNB) Jeremiah and the Prophet 15 How happy are the people who worship you Hananiah with songs, who live in the light of your kindness! 28 That same year, in the fifth month of the fourth 16 Because of you they rejoice all day long, year that Zedekiah was king, Hananiah son of and they praise you for your goodness. Azzur, a prophet from the town of Gibeon, spoke to 17 You give us great victories; me in the Temple. In the presence of the priests and in your love you make us triumphant. of the people he told me 2 that the Lord Almighty, 18 You, O Lord, chose our protector; the God of Israel, had said: you, the Holy God of Israel, gave us our king. “I have broken the power of the king of Babylonia. 3 Within two years I will bring back to this place all Psalm 89 spoken by David Suchet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g0VO93uqMk the Temple treasures that King Nebuchadnezzar took Anglican Chant to Babylonia. 4 I will also bring back the king of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySXVX1EtO5Q Judah, Jehoiachin son of Jehoiakim, along with all of the people of Judah who went into exile in Babylonia. Yes, I will break the power of the king of Babylonia. I, Romans six is one of the high peaks of the Himalayan the Lord, have spoken.” range of the bible’s teaching. Holiness isn’t something we can achieve in our own strength: it’s a gift to receive and 5 Then in the presence of the priests and of all the put into practice. people who were standing in the Temple, I said to Pray for an open heart. Read through it, carefully, noticing Hananiah, which words and phrases jump out at you. Then read 6 “Wonderful! I hope the Lord will do this! I certainly again, more slowly, asking the Holy Spirit to lead you into hope he will make your prophecy come true and will the truth of The Living Word. Then do what it says… bring back from Babylonia all the Temple treasures and all the people who were taken away as prisoners. Paul’s Letter to the Church in Rome 6.12-end 7 But listen to what I say to you and to the people. (NLT) 8 The prophets who spoke long ago, before my time 12 Do not let sin control the way you live; do not and yours, predicted that war, starvation, and disease give in to sinful desires. 13 Do not let any part of would come to many nations and powerful kingdoms. your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. 9 But a prophet who predicts peace can only be Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you recognized as a prophet whom the Lord has truly sent when that prophet's predictions come true.” were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. 15 Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. 17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. 18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living. 19 Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy. 20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. 21 And what was the 10 Then Hananiah took the yoke off my neck, broke result? You are now ashamed of the things you used it in pieces, 11 and said in the presence of all the to do, things that end in eternal doom. 22 But now people, you are free from the power of sin and have become “The Lord has said that this is how he will break the slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to yoke that King Nebuchadnezzar has put on the neck of holiness and result in eternal life. 23 For the wages all the nations; and he will do this within two years.” of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal Then I left. life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Lord of All Hopefulness, All SS Cockermouth! Firmly I believe and Truly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUyboL_iVGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSO5a0_Ycwo Lord of All Hopefulness, James Kilbane I believe in Jesus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx_CcbiGbps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF3fj2CaqxI King of My Heart No longer slaves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNRJ_uaUCAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TkUMJtK5k The RCL Gospel reading appointed this week is just three Thought for the Week verses, the end of Jesus’ teaching to The Twelve (and A cup or a bubbling spring? through them to us) as they went on mission. Having God’s plan, as we’ve remembered many times, is for talked abut finding a welcoming person and staying with His people to be a blessing to the world around them; opposition; not being afraid; advising that the them, and the world in general. message would result in division as people opted out of God’s Kingdom (though all are welcome); he promises We remembered last week that we can try doing there will be rewards. this in our own strength, being as kind as we can, RCL misses 11.1-10, then picks up next week at 11.11. I’ve included the missing explanatory verses, essential to giving as much as we can, doing as much as we understanding next week’s gospel, so you can get ahead! can, but there’s more… This week, Jesus says there are rewards for welcoming God’s Messengers and Matthew 10.40-end (GNB) good people, and giving Christians a drink of water, 40 “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me; and and this is great: nothing wrong with any of that: whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent Jesus says do this in today’s gospel. me. 41 Whoever welcomes God's messenger because he is God's messenger, will share in his But what if there’s more goodness available than we reward. And whoever welcomes a good man can possibly manage to produce in our own because he is good, will share in his reward. 42 You strength? What if there’s more blessing than we can can be sure that whoever gives even a drink of cold possibly give; what if we have few resources, are water to one of the least of these my followers physically weak or frail, or timid, or tongue tied? because he is my follower, will certainly receive a reward.” When Jesus promised that He wouldn’t leave us [ The Messengers from John the Baptist alone when He returned to His Father, Jesus 11 When Jesus finished giving these instructions to promised that he would send a helper, the Spirit of his twelve disciples, he left that place and went off holiness and power. (John 14.16). to teach and preach in the towns near there. 2 When John the Baptist heard in prison about the things that Christ was doing, he sent some of his disciples to him. 3 “Tell us,” they asked Jesus, “are you the one John said was going to come, or should we expect someone else?” 4 Jesus answered, “Go back and tell John what you are hearing and seeing: 5 the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean,[a] the deaf hear, the dead are brought back to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor. 6 How happy are those who have no doubts about me!” 7 While John's disciples were leaving, Jesus spoke about him to the crowds: “When you went out to John in the desert, what did you expect to see? A blade of grass bending in the wind? 8 What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that live in palaces! 9 Tell me, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed, but you saw much more than a prophet. 10 For John is the one of whom the scripture says: ‘God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.’]

The Servant King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4FtZ9XzZag Make Me a Servant, Kelly Willard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6U8O_WnPZY Fall Afresh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAsppeugzo In Acts 4.23-29 we read that the believers prayed for And Can it Be boldness in proclaiming the Kingdom in the face of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQeIGbKqiw8 determined opposition. And Can it Be, Stuart Townend “And now, Lord, take notice of the threats they have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2uA6U4Fxg made, and allow us, your servants, to speak your And Can it Be, Phatfish & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc3y07FWEAE message with all boldness.” (29) They pray a bit more: If you’d like to dig a bit deeper, try this: “Reach out your hand to heal, and grant that wonders and miracles may be performed through the name of Are the Acts of the Apostles examples for us to your holy Servant Jesus.” (30) follow? Revd Dr Ian Paul, Psephizo https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/are-the-acts-of-the- Luke’s account goes on: apostles-examples-for-us-to-follow/ “When they finished praying, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled [again] The Faith of the Church with the Holy Spirit and began to proclaim God's I believe in God, the Father almighty, message with boldness.” (31) creator of heaven and earth. One of the signs of this further coming of the Holy Spirit (this isn’t Pentecost, but some time later, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, there are eight more examples in Acts), apart from who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, boldness in proclaiming God’s message in the face born of the Virgin Mary, of opposition, and healing, was unity, and suffered under Pontius Pilate, extraordinary generosity. was crucified, died, and was buried; “The group of believers was one in mind and heart. he descended to the dead. None of them said that any of their belongings were On the third day he rose again; their own, but they all shared with one another he ascended into heaven, everything they had. With great power the apostles he is seated at the right hand of the Father, gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and and he will come to judge the living and the dead. God poured rich blessings on them all.” (32-33) I believe in the Holy Spirit, Imagine what the church would be like on the the holy catholic Church, peninsula if we were filled with the same Holy the communion of saints, Spirit? Do we need to take off and break the yoke the forgiveness of sins, of ingrained habitual ways that have been satisfying the resurrection of the body, us, but haven’t been growing God’s Kingdom and and the life everlasting. blessing our communities? What happens if we keep Amen. wearing the yoke?… This I Believe (The Creed) If you’re content with giving a glass of water to a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzI_FbWTkg fellow Christian, it’s fine. But what if you could give life-giving water that would change a not-yet- Christian’s life, water that never runs out?… Prayers of Turning

Jesus says, ‘Turn away from your sins, for the kingdom of God is close at hand.’ (Mark 1.15)

So let us turn away from our sin, our rebellion against God, and turn to Christ, confessing our sins in penitence and faith.

Spend a moment in reflection, calling to mind those times or attitudes when you’ve done things your way rather than God’s way, or those long-standing opinions that need addressing in the light of God’s Word, and ask for help to do things differently… Almighty God, who in Jesus Christ has given us a kingdom that cannot be destroyed, forgive us our sins, open our eyes to God’s truth, strengthen us to do God's will and give us the joy of his kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. May the Father of all mercies The Collect for Grace. cleanse us from our sins, O LORD, our heavenly Father, Almighty and and restore us in his image everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the to the praise and glory of his name, beginning of this day: Defend us in the same with through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger; but Prayers of Intercession that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy Over to you: what do you want to pray for? sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

• Thanksgiving? Needs of the world? Needs of the Asking God’s Ongoing Blessing village? • Needs of individuals or families? Jesus Christ Son of God, perfect in us • Filling to overflow with the Father’s gift?? the image of Your glory and gladden our hearts Why not ask God to get you ready to receive a fresh or even a first outpouring, overflowing of Holy Spirit to with the good news of Your Victory over death know the Father heart of God, and His Son, Jesus and the coming of Your kingdom; Christ… and the blessing of God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, If you’re struggling to find the words, try this… be among us and remain with us always. Amen. The Lord’s Prayer, Mario Lanza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a3ZzPDvWDE The Blessing La Benedición Latinoamerica The Lord’s Prayer, Jackie Evancho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13TuS5egUVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg2AsS4CErM The Arab World Blessing The Lord’s Prayer, Hillsong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy0v69p5Jik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxqjEz5hJ4 The Blessing Amharic (Ethiopian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxYL7sDTKs Even When It Hurts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrSJwO5dJXg

The Collect for Peace. Amazing Grace O GOD, who art the author of peace and lover of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU6GWeBY3qw Amazing Grace, Aretha Franklin concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtugO6WE_o4&pbjreload=101 eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom: Amazing Grace, Celtic Women Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsCp5LG_zNE enemies; that we, surely trusting in thy defence, may Amazing Grace, 50 Countries not fear the power of any adversaries; through the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7pdABvpnc might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone, Chris Tomlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-4NFvI5U9w For further exploration

Amazing Grace the story of the tune, Bill Gaither The Blessing - Celtic Women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuQbJst4Lk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGKhgdF9vWA

Amazing Grace the story of the lyricist The Irish Blessing (Be Thou My Vision, attributed to St https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNrTwIZxD6w Columba, who established Iona, Lindisfarne and through Cuthbert, the church on our peninsula) Fantasy on Amazing Grace, Ivy String Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TascsWZPj8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ_JB2VPfFY

Played anytime I feel down! Every Praise Good Good Father, Housefires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuuZMg6NVeA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djrY_eFDOwE

I Could sing of Your Love Forever, Steffany Gretzinger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv0tgzg_aHc

I Could sing of Your Love (see the size of the congregation!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXSe4C-__mY

Piano Instrumental Compilation to chill by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4GgmjpLLiI

Here is Love Vast as the Ocean (Welsh & English. An early form of Welsh was spoken in Cumbria before the Angle and Viking influence displaced it. It was the language here when Cuthbert established the first known church here in AD687, either at Castlehead or Kirkhead) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZJmTVdDyLY