Looking to Sunday - 9/18 (Baptism!)

 Horicon Baptist Church
September 19th, 2021
 
Order of Service
Call to Worship: Psalm 100:1-2
17 – Come Thou Fount
Prayer
Worship Through Giving
Front Cover – The Doxology
Announcements
OT Reading – Isaiah 52:13-53:6
How Deep the Father's Love For Us
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
37 – How Great Thou Art
Sermon: John 3:16-21
125 – Jesus Paid it All

 Sermon Outline
The Two Loves – John 3:16-21 – Taylor Callen

1. The love of the Father leads to salvation. (16-17)
2. The love of the world leads to condemnation. (18-21)

 
Thoughts from the Saints
“Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. It is true that we are sinners--but Christ has suffered for us. It is true that we deserve death--but Christ has died for us. It is true that we are guilty debtors--but Christ has paid our debts with His own blood. This is the real Gospel! This is the good news! On this let us lean while we live. To this let us cling when we die. Christ has been 'lifted up' on the cross, and has thrown open the gates of heaven to all believers.” – Bishop J.C. Ryle

Announcements & Events
Prayer: Wood and Bolton families
Welcome to the new interns from Word of Life.
Today, Cozanne Marsh’s baptism! 12:30pm 

Call to Worship
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
2     Serve the Lord with gladness!
    Come into his presence with singing!
3 Know that the Lord, he is God!
    It is he who made us, and we are his;
    we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
-          Psalm 100:1-2
Old Testament Reading – Isaiah 52:13-53:6
13 Behold, my servant shall act wisely;
    he shall be high and lifted up,
    and shall be exalted.
14 As many were astonished at you--
    his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind--
15 so shall he sprinkle many nations.
    Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
for that which has not been told them they see,
    and that which they have not heard they understand.
53 Who has believed what he has heard from us?
    And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
    and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
    and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
    a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
    he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
    and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
    smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
    he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
    and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
    we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
    the iniquity of us all.
Call to Confession:
Seek the Lord while he may be found,
call upon him while he is near;
let the wicked forsake their way,
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Trusting ourselves to the grace of God,
let us confess our sins before God and one another.
—based on Isaiah 55: 6-7
Assurance of Pardon:
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” – Romans 8:1