30. 18.10.2020 - "Sunnyhill" Herne Bay Evangelical Free Church

• Opening words
  

• Hymn

 

All people that on earth do dwell

 

Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice

 

Him serve with mirth, His praise forth tell

 

Come ye before Him and rejoice

 

 

Know that the Lord is God indeed

 

Without our aid He did us make

 

We are His flock, He doth us feed

 

And for His sheep He doth us take

 

 

O enter then His gates with praise

 

Approach with joy His courts unto

 

Praise, laud, and bless His name always

 

For it is seemly so to do

 

 

Because the Lord our God is good

 

His mercy is forever sure

 

His truth at all times firmly stood

 

And shall from age to age endure

 

 

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow

 

Praise Him all creatures here below

 

Praise Him above ye heavenly host

 Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost

• Reading N°1
  

Deuteronomy 10:12-22

 

“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen. Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven."

• Hymn
  

 

REJOICE, the Lord is King!

 

Your Lord and King adore;

 

mortals, give thanks and sing

 

and triumph evermore:

 

 

                         Lift up your heart, lift up your voice;

 

                         Rejoice, again I say, Rejoice.

 

 

2 Jesus the Saviour reigns,

 

the God of truth and love:

 

when He had purged our stains,

 

He took His seat above:

 

 

3 His kingdom cannot fail;

 

He rules o’er earth and heaven;

 

the keys of death and hell

 

are to our Jesus given:

 

 

4 He sits at God’s right hand

 

till all His foes submit,

 

and bow to His command,

 

and fall beneath His feet:

 

 

5 Rejoice in glorious hope;

 

Jesus the Judge shall come,

 

and take His servants up

 

to their eternal home:

 

• Reading N°2
  

Philippians 3:1-11

 

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.

 Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh – also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith — that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

• Hymn
  

 

JESUS, Jesus, all-sufficient,

 

beyond telling is Thy worth;

 

in Thy Name lie greater treasures

 

than the richest found on earth.

 

Such abundance

 

is my portion with my God.

 

 

2 In Thy gracious face there’s beauty

 

far surpassing every thing

 

found in all the earth’s great wonders

 

mortal eye hath ever seen.

 

Rose of Sharon,

 

Thou Thyself art heaven’s delight.

• Prayer
  

• Hymn
  

 

REJOICE, believer, in the Lord,

 

who makes your cause His own!

 

The hope that’s built upon His Word

 

can ne’er be overthrown.

 

 

2 Though many foes beset your road,

 

and feeble is your arm,

 

your life is hid with Christ in God,

 

beyond the reach of harm.

 

 

3 Weak as you are, you shall not faint,

 

or fainting, shall not die;

 

Jesus, the strength of every saint,

 

will aid you from on high.

 

 

4 As surely as He overcame

 

and triumphed once for you,

 

so surely you that love His name

 

shall triumph in Him too.

• Sermon
  

• Hymn
  

 

TO God be the glory! great things He has done!

 

So loved He the world that He gave us His Son;

 

who yielded His life an atonement for sin,

 

and opened the life-gate that all may go in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood!

 

To every believer the promise of God;

 

the vilest offender who truly believes,

 

that moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

 

 

3 Great things He has taught us, great things He has done,

 

and great our rejoicing through Jesus the Son;

 

but purer and higher and greater will be

 

our wonder, our rapture, when Jesus we see!

• Grace.