Sunday Feb. 4, 2023
Call To Worship:
Exodus 34:5-7
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, “The Lord.” 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means leaving the guilty unpunished.”
Songs:
Be Thou My Vision
Verse 1
Be Thou my Vision O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me save that Thou art
Thou my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping Thy presence my light
Verse 2
Be Thou my Wisdom and Thou my true Word
I ever with Thee and Thou with me Lord
Thou my great Father I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
Verse 3
High King of heaven my victory won
May I reach heaven's joys bright heaven's Sun
Heart of my own heart whatever befall
Still be my Vision O Ruler of all
Amazing Grace
Verse 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
Verse 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
Verse 3
The Lord has promised good to me
His Word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures
Verse 4
Through many dangers toils and snares
I have already come
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home
Verse 5
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
Spirit Fall
Spirit Fall on us like the rain
Holy Spirit blow on us like the wind
Holy Spirit shine on us like the sun, like the sun
Sanctify and heal us, make us one.
Lord Prepare me, to be a sanctuary
Pure and holy, tried and true
And with Thanksgiving, I’ll be a living
Sanctuary for you.
We exalt Thee, we exalt Thee
We exalt Thee, Oh Lord (repeat)
For Thou oh Lord art high above all the earth
Thou Art exampled far above all Gods (repeat)
Teaching: Holy Spirit: Transformation
Exodus 33:18, “please show me your glory.”
ancient Hebrew idiom meaning “Show me your face”
“Glory”= Kabod (pronounced KAVOD) in Hebrew
Kabod meant:
splendor
character
honor
radiance
reputation
goodness
holiness.
“Show me your face (Kabod)” meant “show me the depths of your character, your honor, your purpose, your goodness, your holiness and radiance.”
Exodus 34:5-7
The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name, “The Lord.” 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed,“The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,7 keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means leaving the guilty unpunished.”
2 Corinthians 3:7-18
“Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stone tablets, came in glory so that the people of Israel could not gaze at Moses’s face because of the glory of his face, a glory now set aside, 8 how much more will the ministry of the Spirit come in glory? 9 For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, much more does the ministry of justification abound in glory! 10 Indeed, what once had glory has in this respect lost its glory because of the greater glory, 11 for if what was set aside came through glory, much more has the permanent come in glory!
12 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with complete frankness, 13 not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of the glory that was being set aside. 14 But their minds were hardened. Indeed, to this very day, when they hear the reading of the old covenant, the same veil is still there; it is not unveiled since in Christ it is set aside. 15 Indeed, to this very day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their minds, 16 but when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.18 And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.”
Come Just As you Are
Come just as you are
Hear the Spirit call
Come just as you are
Come and see,
Come receive
Come and live forever
Life everlasting
And strength for today
Taste the Living Water
And never thirst again
Communion:
Head up to the front to take communion.
Once you take communion head back to your seat and reflect and pray over the following questions:
Where have you seen change in you because of the Spirit?
What area of your life do you long to see more transformation?
Benediction:
Move among us, Spirit,
and gather us together with you.
Take our many selves—
our lives, our loves, our ideas,
our questions, our speech, our silence—
and unite us as your people.
Give us the gifts of presence, transformation and guidance,
so that even as we dream your dreams and see your visions,
we may be able to witness to your presence
in our common life.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.—(2 Corinthians 13:14)
Amen.