August 6, 2023 - Sunday Service

Ascension Presbyterian Church Longwood

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Grace and peace to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Welcome to the corporate worship of our great

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God. Please stand. You have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living

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God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God, the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, into the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

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Come now, let us worship him. Please pray with me.

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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we invoke your holy name.

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You have called us as your people and we, in response, love you and take you as our

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God. Oh Lord, we ask that you would be pleased with this worship through the merits of our great mediator, the

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Lord Jesus Christ. We ask also that you would send your spirit upon us, that we would have greater unction in the reading and singing of your word, preaching of your word, that the efficacy of the sacrament would be applied forcefully to us and all these things would be filled with great joy and worship and adoration of you.

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We ask these things in Jesus name. Amen. Let us kneel now for the corporate confession of sin and let us confess our sins together with one voice.

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Almighty and most merciful Father, our obsession with creating a life of constant pleasure, our indifference to the neglect of your wise and gracious law, for what is good, love what you love and do what you command through Jesus Christ our

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Lord. Amen. Please stand. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence.

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If you be in Christ Jesus, take heart today, your sins are forgiven.

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Amen. Please take up the hymnal and turn to number 164.

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O for a thousand tongues to sing. 164.

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To sing

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Jesus the name that bids our sorrows, tears, years, tears, life and health, sets the prisoner.

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Please take up the bulletin and find the psalm of the week from Psalm 33.

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This is the C selection and the tune is familiar to us. We have sung it before for another psalm of the month.

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What number was that? We did the same tune.

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We will remember it once we get started. Brother, help us get started. His word is most blessed where he is does not make rescue certain.

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Remain standing for the reading of first Peter 1.

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the pilgrims of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the

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Father in sanctification of the spirit for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

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Grace to you and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

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In this you greatly rejoice though now for a little while if need be you have been grieved by various trials that the genuine that the genuineness of your faith being much more precious than gold that perishes though it be though it is tested by fire may be found to praise honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ whom having not seen you love though now you do not see him yet believing you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory receiving the end of your faith the salvation of your souls of this salvation the prophets have inquired and carefully who prophesied of the grace that would come to you searching what or what manner of time the spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when he testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow to them it was revealed that not to them it was revealed that not to themselves but to us they were administering things which now have been made now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the holy spirit sent from heaven things which angels desire to look into therefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance but as he who had called you as holy you also be holy in all your conduct because it is written be holy for i am holy and if you call on the father who without partiality judges according to each one's work conduct conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold or gold from your aimless in conduct received by from your fathers but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot he indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory so that your faith and hope are in God since you have purified your souls and obeying the truth through the spirit insincere love of the brethren love one another fervently with a pure heart having been born again not of corruptible seed but incorruptible through the word of God which lives and abides forever because all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass the grass withers and its flower falls away but the word of the lord endures forever now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you this is the word of the lord let us now confess our faith by singing the apostles please take up the red hymnal and find 409 rock of ages cleft for me 400 oh please make preparations now for the prayers of the people and seeing the multitudes jesus went up on a mountain when he was seated his disciples came to him then he opened his mouth and taught them saying blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see