Proclaiming & Displaying The Grace Of God To Sinners & Sufferers May 31, 2020 Welcome to the livestream worship gathering of Grace Church. We are glad you have joined us this morning for worship and trust that you encounter the Living God — Father, Son, Spirit. TODAY’S LITURGY CALL TO WORSHIP CALL TO WORSHIP Psalm 66 Psalm 66 Let the whole earth shout joyfully to God! SONG OF PRAISE Sing about the glory of his name; Great Are You Lord make his praise glorious. SONG OF PRAISE Say to God, How awe-inspiring are your Good, Good Father works! PRAYER OF PRAISE Your enemies will cringe before you Grady Spencer because of your great strength. SCRIPTURE READING The whole earth will worship you Psalm 42 and sing praise to you. Ryan Wester They will sing praise to your name. CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER Prayer Of Lament SERMON Psalm 42 Ryan Keeney SONG OF CONFESSION There Is A Fountain WORD OF ASSURANCE Romans 8:34 SONG OF ASSURANCE Satisfied In You SONG OF ASSURANCE I Stand Amazed BENEDICTION Hebrews 13:20-21 GREAT ARE YOU LORD Chorus Verse 1 You're a Good Good Father It's who You are, It’s who You are You give life You are love It's who You are You bring light to the darkness And I'm loved by You You give hope It's who I am, It’s who I am, It’s who I am You restore ev'ry heart that is broken And great are You Lord Verse 2 I've seen many searching for answers Chorus Far and wide It's Your breath in our lungs But I know we're all searching for answers So we pour out our praise Only You provide We pour out our praise Because You know just what we need It's Your breath in our lungs Before we say a word So we pour out our praise to You only Chorus Verse 1 You're a Good Good Father You give life You are love It's who You are, It’s who You are You bring light to the darkness It's who You are You give hope And I'm loved by You You restore ev'ry heart that is broken It's who I am, It’s who I am, It’s who I am And great are You Lord Bridge x2 Chorus You are perfect in all of Your ways You are perfect in all of Your ways It's Your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise You are perfect in all of Your ways to us We pour out our praise Verse 3 It's Your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise to You only Love so undeniable I can hardly speak Peace so unexplainable I can hardly think Bridge x3 As You call me deeper still And all the earth will shout Your praise As You call me deeper still Our hearts will cry As You call me deeper still These bones will sing Into love love love Great are You Lord Chorus Chorus x3 You're a Good Good Father It's Your breath in our lungs It's who You are, It’s who You are So we pour out our praise It's who You are We pour out our praise And I'm loved by You It's Your breath in our lungs It's who I am, It’s who I am, It’s who I am So we pour out our praise to You only Bridge x2 You are perfect in all of Your ways GOOD, GOOD FATHER You are perfect in all of Your ways You are perfect in all of Your ways to us Verse 1 I've heard a thousand stories Chorus Of what they think You’re like You're a Good Good Father But I've heard the tender whisper It's who You are, It’s who You are Of love in the dead of night It's who You are You tell me that You’re pleased And I'm loved by You And that I'm never alone It's who I am, It’s who I am, It’s who I am SCRIPTURE READING 3. Psalm 42 You feel as if you have no purpose and no hope. As a deer longs for flowing streams, There is no reason to get out of bed, work, love, or so I long for you, God. live. You feel it in your entire being. God however I thirst for God, the living God. counters these feelings on every page of Scripture. When can I come and appear before God? For example, ‘love one another deeply, from the My tears have been my food day and night, heart’ (1 Peter 1:22). That is a purpose statement, a reason to get out of bed. You have to fight the while all day long people say to me, "Where is paralyzing feelings so that you can love another your God? ” person. Why bother? Because it is your personal I remember this as I pour out my heart: commission from God himself, the King of Kings.” how I walked with many, leading the festive – Ed Welch procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts. 4. Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Why are you in such turmoil? Christ. Because of his great mercy he has given us Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, new birth into a living hope through the my Savior and my God. resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember you unfading, kept in heaven for you. You are being from the land of Jordan guarded by God’s power through faith for a and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; time. You rejoice in this, even though now for a all your breakers and your billows have swept short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various over me. trials so that the proven character of your faith — more valuable than gold which, though perishable, The Lord will send his faithful love by day; is refined by fire — may result in praise, glory, and his song will be with me in the night — honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Though you a prayer to the God of my life. have not seen him, you love him; though not I will say to God, my rock, seeing him now, you believe in him, and you rejoice “Why have you forgotten me? with inexpressible and glorious joy, because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of Why must I go about in sorrow because of the your souls. enemy’s oppression? ” My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my 1 Peter 1:3-9 bones, while all day long they say to me, 5. “Where is your God?” “Soul, listen for a moment, I will speak to you…Then Why, my soul, are you so dejected? having done that, end on this great note: defy Why are you in such turmoil? yourself, and defy other people, and defy the devil, Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, and the whole world, and say with this man: I will my Savior and my God. still praise him, my Savior and my God.” – Dr. Martin Lloyd–Jones SERMON QUOTES 6. 1. I am the subject of depressions of spirit so fearful “For months, when I looked at our wedding that I hope none of you ever get to such extremes pictures or saw any memory of life before we saw of wretchedness as I go to. the faint pink lines, I cried. When I remembered life I wonder every day that there are not more before we lost the baby, it only reminded me of a suicides, considering the troubles in this life. better time, a life in which pain didn’t live with us. It reminded me of better days, and I wept. And I The Road to sorrow has been well trodden, it is the felt so, so weary.” regular sheep track to heaven, and all the flock of – Courtney Reissig (Teach Me To Feel) God have had to pass along it. An ointment for every wound, a cordial for every 2. faintness, a remedy for every disease. Blessed is he “Most people do things because they feel like who is skilled in heavenly pharmacy and knows doing them. They get up in the morning because how to lay hold on the healing virtues of the they feel like going to work.” He gives a few other promises of God! examples and then concludes, “We are more feeling-driven than we think.” –Charles Spurgeon (Zach Eswine, “Spurgeon’s Sorrows”) – Ed Welch THERE IS A FOUNTAIN SATISFIED IN YOU Verse 1 Verse 1 There is a fountain filled with blood, I have lost my appetite; Drawn from Immanuel’s veins, and a flood is welling up behind my eyes And sinners plunged beneath the flood So I eat the tears I cry Lose all their guilty stains And if that were not enough, Lose all their guilty stains they know just the words to cut and tear and Lose all their guilty stains prod When they ask me “Where’s your God?” And sinners plunged beneath that flood Pre Chorus Lose all their guilty stains.