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, Matt Redman 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.