SERVICE FOR
THE LORD’S DAY
December 8, 2024
The Second Sunday of Advent
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE
Liturgist, Mike Henderson
CALL TO WORSHIP — based on Psalm 50:1-3, 6
Leader: The mighty God summons the earth
from the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.
People: Our God comes and will not be silent.
God calls, and we respond to his love.
Leader: The heavens declare God’s righteousness.
People: We tell out God’s glories!
Leader: Offer up to God your thanksgiving.
People: And our God will hear us, save us,
and stay with us forever.
*OPENING HYMN #135 Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus
*OPENING PRAYER
*PRAISE SONG Love Came Down At Christmas
GUIDED PRAYER
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*AFFIRMATION OF FAITH — Westminster Larger Catechism 39, 40
Leader: Why did the mediator have to be human?
People: The mediator had to be human so that he might improve human nature, obey the law, suffer and make intercession for us in our own nature, and know first hand what human infirmities feel like; and so that we might be adopted as sons and have comfort and access with boldness to the throne of grace.
Leader: Why did the mediator have to be God and human in one person?
People: The mediator, who was to reconcile God and humanity, had to be himself both God and human and in one person to make the works appropriate to each nature acceptable to God on our behalf and counted on by us as the works of the whole person. Amen.
LIGHTING OF THE SECOND ADVENT CANDLE The Langes
ANTHEM Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus
Arr. John Carter
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND LORD’S PRAYER
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
WORSHIPING GOD WITH OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS
Offertory
*Offertory Response — #126, O Come Let Us Adore Him
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.
*Prayer of Dedication
NEW TESTAMENT READING: Philippians 2:5-11
Pastor: The Word of the Lord
People: Thanks be to God
SERMON: Rev. David Garrison
ADVENTUS SANCTIFICATIONIS: INTO THE MESS
Series: Adventus
[Christ Jesus] emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men. – Philippians 2:7
*CLOSING SONG Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me
*BENEDICTION
*POSTLUDE
WELCOME TO NORTHMINSTER EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
— Philippians 2:5-11 (ESV)
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
— Romans 5:7-8 (ESV)
21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
— 2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV)
15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.
— Hebrews 4:15 (ESV)
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
— 1 Peter 3:18 (ESV)
19 We love because he first loved us.
— 1 John 4:19 (ESV)
