This Sunday, because the text deals heavily with confession of sins, we will focus heavily on confession of sins. Notice the flow of these songs. First, we pray for the Holy Spirit to come and move our hearts to sing the praises of Jesus, recognizing that He is the only reason we are saved, from start to finish. We need the Holy Spirit in the service to speak to our hearts and reveal to us and in us, Jesus so that we can better know him and more deeply worship him. For, as Jesus rightly said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all.” (John 6:63). As we have prayed for the Holy Spirit to move, we expect He will through the spoken Word of God. As Jesus continued to say in the same verse mentioned a moment ago, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.” After the sermon, we will act on the words with which we have been challenged by confessing our sins to Jesus, trusting that He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us. The songs will speak harshly of our sin and gloriously of Jesus which is a right view to take. We are sinners; He is the Savior. We will end the service, as we are sent to be the church, singing the great glories of Jesus because He rescued us from our bondage to corruption and into new life and joy in Him!
Here is how you can prepare yourself for the service:
Come Thou Fount
Confession (Mars Hill Church)
Nothing But the Blood
You Have Opened My Mouth (Mars Hill Church)
We Have Not Known Thee
Glory to God (Fee)
I encourage you to read through the text being preached this week. Hopefully, you are memorizing as we go along and have been meditating on these verse already. If you have missed any of the weeks prior, you can listen to the podcasts here. I love you all and look forward to worshipping with you through the preaching/hearing of the Word and responding in song, all for the glory and in the name of Jesus.
Cameron
