Prelude – As you prepare for worship, please allow time for yourself before the announcements to focus your attention on our Heavenly Father and to seek His mercy as we enter into His presence.

Announcements and Introduction to Worship              9:25 am

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God Calls His People into His Presence

^†  Call to Worship                                               Revelation 1:13-17

   Greeting                                                            Revelation 1:17-18

   Peace be with you! Peace to You!                                           John 20:19, 21

   Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth    Ps 124:8

^†        Opening Prayer

^†                                 Hymn of Praise                                         Come, Thou Fount

                                                                         Trinity Hymnal, #457

God Cleanses and Renews Us

      Call to Confession                                       2 Corinthians 5:18-20

      Corporate Prayer of Confession(kneeling, if able)                       

Our gracious Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, You bore Your Father’s wrath for our sins, and we confess them to You. We know the price You paid, and we continue to sin. Forgive us, Lord Jesus. We look to our coffee, cars and comforts for life, instead of to You our Christ. We look to our own faith, family, opinions, or work to merit Your favor, instead of Your faithfulness to Your Father. We are quick to leave You, instead of abiding in Your vine. We pray in Your infinitely excellent Name…

(Silent Confession of Sin)

^†  Assurance of Forgiveness                         2 Corinthians 5:17, 21

                                          … your sins are forgiven through Christ! Hallelujah!

Lift up your hearts! We lift them up to the Lord!

^†        Hymn of Thanksgiving                                    And Can It Be

                                                                        Trinity Hymnal, # 455

God Consecrates Us by His Word

^†  Old Testament Reading                                         Daniel 7:13-14

^†  New Testament Reading                                 Matthew 26:59-64

^†        The Gloria Patri                                      Trinity Hymnal # 735

(We lift our hearts, voices, and hands in praise to God)

                  Confession of Faith                 Heidelberg Catchism Q12-18

                                                                                    Trinity, pg. 870

      Prayer of the Church

^†                 Hymn of Preparation           Christ the Lord is Ris’n Today

                                                                          Trinity Hymnal #277

   Sermon text                                                       Philippians 2:5-11

   Sermon      Who is Jesus? His person and work - Steve Hemmeke           

      We Offer Our Prayers of Praise and Devotion

(We invite the men of the congregation to lead us in prayer.)

      We Offer Ourselves by Giving God’s Tithes & our Offerings

         Offertory Hymn                                      Soul, Adorn Thyself

                                                                          Trinity Hymnal #421

God Communes with Us

The Lord’s Supper                       When I Survey – Trinity #252

^†                 Hymn of Response                         Lead on, O King Eternal

                                                                         Trinity Hymnal, #580

God Commissions and Blesses Us

^†  Commission                                                                John 15:9-12

^†  Benediction                                                          Revelation 22:21

^†        The Doxology                                          Trinity Hymnal # 731

(We lift our hearts, voices, and hands in praise to God)

^† All who are able, please stand

Discussion Questions:
1. How does each office of Christ (prophet, priest and king) impact your relationship with Him?

2. What is said about Jesus in these texts?

3. How is God calling you to humble yourself like Christ, in your life today?

4. For whom are you suited to convey, or mediate, God’s truth, rule and Gospel forgiveness?

Heidelberg Catechism

Q12. According to God's righteous judgment we deserve punishment both in this world and forever after: how then can we escape this punishment and return to God's favor?

A. God requires that his justice be satisfied. Therefore the claims of his justice must be paid in full, either by ourselves or another.

Q13. Can we pay this debt ourselves?

A. Certainly not. Actually, we increase our guilt every day.

Q14. Can another creature—any at all— pay this debt for us?

A. No. To begin with, God will not punish another creature for what a human is guilty of. Besides, no mere creature can bear the weight of God's eternal anger against sin and release others from it.

Q15. What kind of mediator & deliverer should we look for?

A. One who is truly human and truly righteous, yet more powerful than all creatures, that is, one who is also true God.

Q16. Why must he be truly human and truly righteous?

A. God's justice demands that human nature, which has sinned, must pay for its sin; but a sinner could never pay for others.

Q17. Why must he also be true God?

A. So that, by the power of his divinity, he might bear the weight of God's anger in his humanity and earn for us and restore to us righteousness and life.

Q18. And who is this mediator— true God and at the same time truly human and truly righteous?

A. Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was given us to set us completely free and to make us right with God.

Sermon Outline

Introduction

Theme: The Bible teaches us that God the Son took on flesh to teach, rule and redeem us.

1. Christ’s calling:

2. Christ’s humbling and exalting – the big picture

3. Christ’s humanity and divinity: a suited Mediator

4. Christ’s teaching, ruling and redeeming

5. Application

Conclusion

Summer Sermon Series – Basics of the Faith

1. Revelation - Scripture

2. God and Creation

3. Man

4. Christ and His atoning work

5. Redemption applied to us (conversion, justification, etc)

6. Church

7. End times