Preparing To Rejoice In Him // August 1, 2021

God Calls Us To Worship : Isaiah 12:2-5

“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.”

With joy you[b] will draw water from the wells of salvation.And you will say in that day:

“Give thanks to the Lord,
    call upon his name,
make known his deeds among the peoples,
    proclaim that his name is exalted.

“Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously;
    let this be made known[c] in all the earth.

Worship In Song : Song List for Each Site

Olde Providence:
Rising Sun – All Sons and Daughters
Come Thou Fount – hymn
Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me – City Alight
The Water and the Blood – Sojourn
With Great Gentleness – Sandra McCracken
Great is Thy Faithfulness – hymn

South End:
All Creatures – hymn
Come Thou Fount – hymn
Yet Not I but Through Christ in Me – City Alight
Thy Mercy – Sandra McCracken
With Great Gentleness – Sandra McCracken
Great is Thy Faithfulness – hymn

Cotswold: 
Beautiful Jesus – Tomlin
Come Thou Fount – hymn
Only a Holy God – City Alight
Come to the Water – Passion
O Come to the Altar – Elevation Worship
His Mercy is More – Matt Pappa

God’s Word Preached : John 7:37-52

The Promise of the Spirit

37 On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me[a] and drink. 38 The one who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.” 39 He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit[b] had not yet been given[c] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

The People Are Divided over Jesus

40 When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This truly is the Prophet.” 41 Others said, “This is the Messiah.” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? 42 Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Messiah comes from David’s offspring[d] and from the town of Bethlehem,where David lived?” 43 So the crowd was divided because of him. 44 Some of them wanted to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

Debate over Jesus’s Claims

45 Then the servants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him?”

46 The servants answered, “No man ever spoke like this!” [e]

47 Then the Pharisees responded to them, “Are you fooled too? 48 Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”

50 Nicodemus—the one who came to him previously and who was one of them—said to them, 51 “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

52 “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

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