Tuesday, December 13, 2011

December 11/12, 2011 Advent Song Service

December 11/12, 2011 - Advent 3 - by Pastor Paul G. Eckert

December 11/12, 2011
SONG SERVICE
BASED ON PROPHETIC STATEMENTS
FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
WELCOME
Hymn 30:1-3 (Sunday) --- “Rise, Arise”
Hymn 30:1-2 (Monday) --- “Rise, Arise”
P: Come, let us worship in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C: ♫ Amen.
P: Prayer
C: ♫ Amen.
From the lips of children (Sunday)
Jr. Choir (8:15 service) - “Emmanuel Will Come”
Cherub Choir (10:45 service) - “Advent Canon”
Hymn 30:3 (Monday) --- “Crown Him King!”
1. Sing To The Lord A New Song, For He Has Done Glorious Things.
Isaiah 12:1-6 - In that day you will say: “I will praise you, O LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. In that day you will say: “Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”
Psalm 31, page 77 --- “Surely, it is God who saves me”
2. Acknowledge That We Have Done Other Things.
Isaiah 1:2-6 - Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! For the LORD has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people loaded with guilt, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption! They have forsaken the LORD; they have spurned the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted. From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness— only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.
P: Confession
Hymn 27:1-3 --- “O Jesus, Lamb of God”
3. Marvel At God's Response To Our Sin.
Isaiah 1:18 - “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
P: Absolution
Hymn 27:4 --- “Help me to change my ways, O Lord”
4. Marvel At The Future He Holds Before Us.
Isaiah 2:2-5 - This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Isaiah 25:6-8 - On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine— the best of meats and the finest of wines. On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
Ladies' Choir --- “Lift Up Your Heads”
5. Consider How Specific God's Promises Were.
Isaiah 7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Isaiah 9:6-7 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Mixed Choir --- “He Shall Be Called”
Isaiah 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.
Isaiah 11:1-3 - A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him - the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD - and he will delight in the fear of the LORD.
Hymn 47:1-2 --- “Behold, a Branch Is Growing”
6. See How God Prepared The Way.
Isaiah 40:1-3 - Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins. A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.”
Mixed Choir --- “Prepare The Way”
P: Prayer
All: The Lord's Prayer
Hymn 43:1 and 4 --- “To Thee My Heart I Offer”
We Bring Our Offerings --- (during this time please fill in the Friendship Register)
7. Shudder And Rejoice At What Took Place.
Isaiah 53:1-7 - Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Mixed Choir --- “You Are My All In All / Fairest Lord Jesus”
8. Now The Glory Of The Lord Still Rises Upon Us.
Isaiah 60:1-2 - “Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.”
Ladies' Choir --- “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”
P: Closing Prayer and Blessing
C: ♫ Amen, Amen, Amen.
Hymn 21:1-4 --- “Hosanna to the Coming Lord”
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