Preparing To Rejoice In Him // July 25, 2021

Reflection :

“Like the roof on Toronto’s SkyDome, the heavens are beginning to close. But we barely notice, because our new focus on this plane had already moved the transcendent to our peripheral vision at best. We’re so taken with the play on this field, we don’t lament the loss of the stars overhead.” –James K. A. Smith

God Calls Us To Worship : Psalm 11:1-3

1
Praise the LORD!
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart,
in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
2
Great are the works of the LORD,
studied by all who delight in them.
3
Full of splendor and majesty is his work,
and his righteousness endures forever.

Worship In Song : Song List for Each Site

Olde Providence:
Come Ye Sinners – hymn
We Will Feast in the House of Zion – Sandra McCracken
I Am Set Free – All Sons and Daughters
Jesus Strong and Kind – City Alight
In Christ Alone – Getty’s

South End:
Come Ye Sinners – hymn
All Things New – Andrew Peterson
I Am Set Free – All Sons and Daughters
Is He Worthy – Andrew Peterson
In Christ Alone – Getty’s
We Will Feast in the House of Zion – Sandra McCracken

Cotswold: 
All Things New – Andrew Peterson
I Am Set Free – All Sons and Daughters
Rock of Ages – hymn
Revelation Song – Jennie Riddle
Great Are You Lord – All Sons and Daughters

God’s Word Preached : John 7:25-36

The Identity of the Messiah

25 Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities know he is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”

28 As he was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true. You don’t know him; 29 I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”

30 Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. 31 However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will he?” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants[a] to arrest him.

33 Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

35 Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed[b] among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he? 36 What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

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