Sunday, April 11, 2021 Worship Service

Welcome Rev. Josh Creason

Call to Worship Rev. Josh Creason Rom. 8:35-39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the , nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Worship in Song DEATH WAS ARRESTED ALONE IN MY SORROW AND DEAD IN MY SIN LOST WITHOUT HOPE WITH NO PLACE TO BEGIN YOUR LOVE MADE A WAY TO LET MERCY COME IN WHEN DEATH WAS ARRESTED AND MY LIFE BEGAN

ASH WAS REDEEMED ONLY BEAUTY REMAINS MY ORPHAN HEART WAS GIVEN A NAME MY MOURNING GREW QUIET MY FEET ROSE TO DANCE WHEN DEATH WAS ARRESTED AND MY LIFE BEGAN

OH YOUR GRACE SO FREE WASHES OVER ME YOU HAVE MADE ME NEW NOW LIFE BEGINS WITH YOU IT'S YOUR ENDLESS LOVE POURING DOWN ON US YOU HAVE MADE US NEW NOW LIFE BEGINS WITH YOU

RELEASED FROM MY CHAINS I'M A PRIS'NER NO MORE MY SHAME WAS A RANSOM HE FAITHFULLY BORE HE CANCELLED MY DEBT AND HE CALLED ME HIS FRIEND WHEN DEATH WAS ARRESTED AND MY LIFE BEGAN

OUR SAVIOR DISPLAYED ON A CRIMINAL'S CROSS DARKNESS REJOICED AS THOUGH HEAVEN HAD LOST BUT THEN JESUS AROSE WITH OUR FREEDOM IN HAND THAT'S WHEN DEATH WAS ARRESTED AND MY LIFE BEGAN

OH WE'RE FREE FREE FOREVER WE'RE FREE COME JOIN THE SONG OF ALL THE REDEEMED YES WE'RE FREE FREE FOREVER AMEN WHEN DEATH WAS ARRESTED AND MY LIFE BEGAN

SING TO THE KING SING TO THE KING, WHO IS COMING TO REIGN, GLORY TO JESUS, THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN LIFE AND SALVATION, HIS EMPIRE SHALL BRING, AND JOY TO THE NATIONS WHEN

SOULS SHALL BE SAVED FROM THE BURDEN OF SIN, DOUBT SHALL NOT DARKEN HIS WITNESS WITHIN HELL HATH NO TERRORS AND DEATH HATH NO STING, LOVE IS VICTORIOUS WHEN JESUS IS KING

COME LET US SING A SONG, A SONG DECLARING WE BELONG, TO JESUS, HE IS ALL WE NEED LIFT UP A HEART OF PRAISE, SING NOW WITH VOICES RAISED, TO JESUS SING TO THE KING

FOR HIS RETURNING, WE WATCH AND WE PRAY, WE WILL BE READY THE DAWN OF THAT DAY WE'LL JOIN IN SINGING WITH ALL THE REDEEMED, SATAN IS VANQUISHED AND JESUS IS KING

LOVE CAME DOWN IF MY HEART IS OVERWHELMED AND I CANNOT HEAR YOUR VOICE I'LL HOLD ON TO WHAT IS TRUE THOUGH I CANNOT SEE IF THE STORMS OF LIFE THEY COME AND THE ROAD AHEAD GETS STEEP I WILL LIFT THESE HANDS IN FAITH I WILL BELIEVE

I'LL REMIND MYSELF OF ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE AND THE LIFE I HAVE BECAUSE OF YOUR SON

LOVE CAME DOWN AND RESCUED ME LOVE CAME DOWN AND SET ME FREE AND I AM YOURS I AM FOREVER YOURS MOUNTAIN HIGH OR VALLEY LOW I SING OUT REMIND MY SOUL THAT I AM YOURS I AM FOREVER YOURS

WHEN MY HEART IS FILLED WITH HOPE AND EV'RY PROMISE COMES MY WAY WHEN I FEEL YOUR HANDS OF GRACE REST UPON ME STAYING DESP'RATE FOR YOU GOD STAYING HUMBLED AT YOUR FEET I WILL LIFT THESE HANDS AND PRAISE I WILL BELIEVE

'CAUSE I AM YOURS AND I AM YOURS FOR ALL MY DAYS JESUS I AM YOURS AND I AM YOURS AND I AM YOURS FOR ALL MY DAYS JESUS I AM YOURS

(OH) I AM YOURS I AM YOURS ALL MY DAYS JESUS I AM YOURS

Community Update Rev. Josh Creason

Pastoral Prayer

Scripture Reading Philippians 1:7-11

It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confrmation of . For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the afection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, flled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Reader: This is the Word of the Lord. Congregation: Thanks be to God.

Sermon Rev. Dean Faulkner What Does God Think of You, Really? Philippians 1:7-11

I. Paul Yearns for Believers as Partakers of Grace and with Afection (vv. 7-8)

II. Christ Yearns for Believers Giving Grace and Afection (v. 10)

III. Paul Prays with Christ for Growing Love and Eternal Purposes (vv. 9-11)

What Does God Think of You Right Now? Ex 34: 6-7 The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty

Is 43:4 Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life.

Jer 31:3 I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

Ps 103:10-12 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved

Rom 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jn 15:9 As the Father has loved me, jso have I loved you. Abide in my love.

The Lord’s Supper

Song of Response CORNERSTONE MY HOPE IS BUILT ON NOTHING LESS THAN JESUS' BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS I DARE NOT TRUST THE SWEETEST FRAME, BUT WHOLLY TRUST IN JESUS' NAME

CHRIST ALONE, CORNERSTONE, WEAK MADE STRONG IN THE SAVIOR'S LOVE THROUGH THE STORM HE IS LORD, LORD OF ALL

WHEN DARKNESS SEEMS TO HIDE HIS FACE, I REST ON HIS UNCHANGING GRACE IN EVERY HIGH AND STORMY GALE, MY ANCHOR HOLDS WITHIN THE VEIL, MY ANCHOR HOLDS WITHIN THE VEIL

WHEN HE SHALL COME WITH TRUMPET SOUND, OH MAY I THEN IN HIM BE FOUND DRESSED IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE, FAULTLESS STAND BEFORE THE THRONE

Benediction