Looking to Sunday - August 22

Horicon Baptist Church
August 22, 2021
Order of Service
Call to Worship
334 – Be Thou My Vision
Prayer
Worship Through Giving
Front Cover – The Doxology
Announcements
OT Reading- Ezekiel 37:21-28
40 – Great is Thy Faithfulness
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon
272 – The Solid Rock
Sermon: John 2:13-22
Before the Throne of God Above

Sermon Outline
The Two Sides of Christ – John 2:13-22 – Taylor Callen

1. Jesus is a loving savior. (13-17)
2. Jesus is a righteous judge. (18-22)

Thoughts from the Saints
“For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.”
​– Robert Murry M’Cheyne
 
Announcements & Events
Volunteers needed to clean church monthly
8/29: Fred Whitman visits from Italy, 9:45am & 11am
8/29: 5th Sunday Potluck, 5pm

Call to Worship:
I will praise God’s name in song
    and glorify him with thanksgiving.
This will please the Lord more than an ox,
    more than a bull with its horns and hooves.
Let heaven and earth praise him,
    the seas and all that move in them,
for God will save his people
—Psalm 69:30-31, 34-35

Offering:
Let us give thanks to the Lord with all our being.
In the company of the upright,
let us honor God for the blessings and goodness we have received.
 —based on Psalm 111: 1

OT Reading- Ezekiel 37:21-28
21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land. 22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 24 “My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.
25 They shall dwell in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be their prince forever. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28 Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.”

Prayer of Confession:
“13 But I pray to you, Lord,
    in the time of your favor;
in your great love, O God,
    answer me with your sure salvation.
14 Rescue me from the mire,
    do not let me sink;
deliver me from those who hate me,
    from the deep waters.
15 Do not let the floodwaters engulf me
    or the depths swallow me up
    or the pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, Lord, out of the goodness of your love;
    in your great mercy turn to me.
17 Do not hide your face from your servant;
    answer me quickly, for I am in trouble.
18 Come near and rescue me;
    deliver me because of my foes.”
—Psalm 69:13-18

Assurance of Pardon
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: “The LORD is our righteousness.”
—Jeremiah 23:5-6