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Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Sermon notes
Order of service
Welcome
Amazing Grace
1. Amazing grace!
How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost,
but now am found,
was blind but now I see.
2. ’Twas grace that taught
my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved;
how precious did
that grace appear
the hour I first believed.
3. Through many dangers,
toils and snares,
I have already come;
’tis grace that brought
me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.
4. When we’ve been there
ten thousand years,
bright, shining as the sun,
we’ve no less days
to sing God’s praise
than when we first begun.*
Prayer
It Is Well
1. When peace like a river,
attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot,
Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
(Chorus)
It is well (It is well)
with my soul (with my soul)
It is well, it is well with my soul.
2. Though Satan should buffet,
though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded
my helpless estate,
And has shed His own blood
for my soul.
(Chorus)
It is well (It is well)
with my soul (with my soul)
It is well, it is well with my soul.
3. My sin – O the bliss
of this glorious thought –
My sin, not in part, but the whole
Is nailed to the cross
and I bear it no more;
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
O my soul!
(Chorus)
It is well (It is well)
with my soul (with my soul)
It is well, it is well with my soul.
4. O Lord, haste the day
when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound
and the Lord shall descend;
Even so – it is well with my soul.
(Chorus)
It is well (It is well)
with my soul (with my soul)
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Bible readings
Genesis 11:1-9 (NASB)
11 Now the whole earth [a]used the same language and [b]the same words. 2 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and [c]settled there. 3 They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar. 4 They said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” 5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men hadbuilt. 6 The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have [d]the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be [e]impossible for them. 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their [f]language, so that they will not understand one another’s [g]speech.” 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called [h]Babel, because there the Lord confused the [i]language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
Ephesians 2:18-22 (NASB)
18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the [a]saints, and are of God’s household, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy [b]temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.
Sermon
Great Is Thy Faithfulness
1) Great is Thy faithfulness,
O God my Father;
There is no shadow
of turning with Thee;
Thou changest not,
Thy compassions they fail not;
As Thou hast been
Thou forever wilt be.
(Chorus)
Great is Thy faithfulness,
great is Thy faithfulness;
Morning by morning
new mercies I see;
All I have needed
Thy hand hath provided;
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
2) Summer and winter,
and springtime and harvest;
Sun, moon and stars
in their courses above,
Join with all nature
in manifold witness;
To Thy great faithfulness,
mercy and love.
(Chorus)
3) Pardon for sin,
and a peace that endureth,
Thine own dear presence
to cheer and to guide;
Strength for today
and bright hope for tomorrow,
blessings all mine,
with ten thousand beside!
(Chorus)
Please finish in a time of prayer together in your home.