Bulletin 10.5.25
"For the LORD is a great God and a great King above all gods" Psalm 95:3
Reflection Before The Service
Reflection Before The Service
Behold here both the majesty and condescension of the high and lofty One. His majesty lies in the fact that He is high and the inhabiter of eternity. "I am the high and lofty One," He says, "I inhabit eternity." Truly, this consideration is enough to make a person with a broken heart want to hide in a mouse-hole to escape from such majesty! But behold His heart, His condescending nature. "I am dwelling also with him who has a broken heart, with him who is of a contrite spirit." That person, says God, I choose as my companion.
Therefore, such a person is encompassed by all the promises that provide solace and consolation to those who are sick and overwhelmed by the sense of sin and God's wrath. God says they will be refreshed and revived by these promises. Indeed, the promises are designed for them. He has broken their hearts and wounded their spirits precisely to make them receptive to His reviving remedies and to minister His comforting solace to them. As soon as He has broken them, His heart yearns and His compassion stirs within Him, preventing Him from continuing to afflict.
- John Bunyan, The Acceptable Sacrifice (1688)
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
Psalm 95.1-7a
O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
For the LORD is a great God
And a great King above all gods,
In whose hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
(Prayer)
Reflection Before The Service
Behold here both the majesty and condescension of the high and lofty One. His majesty lies in the fact that He is high and the inhabiter of eternity. "I am the high and lofty One," He says, "I inhabit eternity." Truly, this consideration is enough to make a person with a broken heart want to hide in a mouse-hole to escape from such majesty! But behold His heart, His condescending nature. "I am dwelling also with him who has a broken heart, with him who is of a contrite spirit." That person, says God, I choose as my companion.
Therefore, such a person is encompassed by all the promises that provide solace and consolation to those who are sick and overwhelmed by the sense of sin and God's wrath. God says they will be refreshed and revived by these promises. Indeed, the promises are designed for them. He has broken their hearts and wounded their spirits precisely to make them receptive to His reviving remedies and to minister His comforting solace to them. As soon as He has broken them, His heart yearns and His compassion stirs within Him, preventing Him from continuing to afflict.
- John Bunyan, The Acceptable Sacrifice (1688)
The Call To Worship
Psalm 95.1-7a
O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord,
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving,
Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.
For the LORD is a great God
And a great King above all gods,
In whose hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also.
The sea is His, for it was He who made it, And His hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us worship and bow down, Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.
For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
(Prayer)
05/10/25