Preparing To Rejoice In Him // June 13, 2021

Reflection

“What are we to make of Jesus Christ?… How are we to solve the historical problem set us by the recorded sayings and acts of this Man?… On the one hand you have got the almost generally admitted depth and sanity of His moral teaching…On the other, claims which, if not true, are those of a megalomaniac, compared with whom Hitler was the most sane and humble of men. There is no half-way house and there is no parallel in other religions.” – C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock

God Calls Us To Worship : Romans 8:9-11

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus[a] from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Worship In Song : Song List for Each Site

Olde Providence:
Beautiful Jesus – Kristian Stanfill
Holy, Holy, Holy – hymn
Great are You Lord – All Sons and Daughters
There Came a Light – Chris Renzima
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us – hymn
His Mercy is More – Matt Papa

South End:
Beautiful Jesus – Kristian Stanfill
Great are You Lord – All Sons and Daughters
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us – hymn
Take My Life and Let it Be – Tomlin
Holy, Holy, Holy – hymn
The Lion and the Lamb – Leeland

Cotswold: 
Beautiful Jesus – Kristian Stanfill
Great are You Lord – All Sons and Daughters
Cornerstone – Hillsong
Illuminate the Shadows – Porter’s Gate
The Lion and the Lamb – Leeland

God’s Word Preached : John 5:15-29

The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. 16 And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

18 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father[a] does, that the Son does likewise. 20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And greater works than these will he show him, so that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. 22 For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. 28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

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