Welcome to Worship
June 20, 2021
Father’s Day
Preparing our Hearts for Worship: Rev. Bill Archer
Worship Song (pre-recorded): When I Survey the Wondrous Cross/My Jesus I Love Thee
Worship Team
Father’s Day Video: Stepping Up
Welcome and Prayer: Rev. Kevin Freeman
Worship Meditation: Jesus Paid It All
Horton Quartet
Scripture: Psalm 103
Sermon Series: Communion
Sermon Title: The Father Heart of God
Rev. Mark Adams
Sermon Notes:
1 - Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise His holy name.
2 - Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all His benefits—
3 - Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
4 - Who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 - Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 - The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
7 - He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel:
8 - The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 - He will not always accuse, nor will He harbor His anger forever;
10 - He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 - For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him;
12 - as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 - As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him;
14 - for He knows how we are formed, He remembers that we are dust.
15 - The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 - the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.
17 - But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear Him, and His righteousness with their children’s children—
18 - with those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.
19 - The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.
20 - Praise the Lord, you His angels, you mighty ones who do His bidding, who obey His word.
21 - Praise the Lord, all His heavenly hosts, you His servants who do His will.
22 - Praise the Lord, all His works everywhere in His dominion. Praise the Lord, my soul. —Psalm 103:1-22
Let’s go back and review this picture that David gives us of God’s parenting style. As we do, I want to point out three aspects of our Heavenly Father’s “person assembly process,” three things that make Him the perfect example to follow when it comes to parenting.
1.) First, God is a
parent.
“The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger.” —Psalm 103:8
2.) God is a
parent.
“He will not always accuse, nor will He harbor His anger forever…as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.” —Psalm 103:9,12
“If I kept throwing up in your face your past failures, if I chose to retain an angry disposition toward you because of your sin your spirit within you would grow faint before Me. You would wither up and die.” —Isaiah 57:16
“He will trample it under foot and throw it into the deepest part of the sea.” —Micah 7:19
“He’ll put it behind His back where He can’t see it.” —Isaiah 38:17
“He’ll blot it out.” —Isaiah 43:25
“He’ll sweep it away just like a morning mist that gets burned off by the sun.” —Isaiah 44:22
“God will refuse to remember it; He’ll just block it out of His memory.” —Jeremiah 31:34
3.) God is a
parent.
God is, “abounding in love.” —Psalm 103:8
God’s love for us is, “from everlasting to everlasting…” —Psalm 103:17
“As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him.” —Psalm 103:11
“God does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.” —Psalm 103:11
The Lord’s Supper
Worship Song (pre-recorded): At the Cross (Love Ran Red)
Worship Team
Prayer and Benediction: Rev. Mark Adams