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Evening Worship
5:30 P.M.
We prepare for worship by hearing God’s Word: Romans 7
God Calls Us to Worship
*Call to Worship
*Prayer of Invocation
*Salutation
*Hymn #159 “O Savior, Precious Savior”
God Calls Us to Confess Our Sins
Scripture Reading: Galatians 5:22-23
Private and Corporate Prayer
*Hymn #645 “Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee”
God Calls Us to Confess Our Faith
*Confession of Faith: WCF Chapter 12, pg. 855
God Speaks to Us
Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:1-9
Sermon: “Always Be Joyful!”
Congregational Prayer
*Psalm 16, pg.10 (Tune #461)
God Dismisses Us with His Blessing
2 Corinthians 13:14
“The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing” Proverbs 13:4
Augustine calls idleness the burial of a man alive. There are some faint
wishes, “Oh that I had heaven!” but a man may desire venison and lack
it if he does not hunt for it. Men could be content to have the kingdom of
heaven, but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a
feather bed to hell than to heaven in a fiery chariot of zeal and violence.
How many sleep and play away their time; as if they were made like the
Leviathan, to play in the sea (Ps. 104:26)! It is a saying of Seneca, “No
man is made wise by chance.” Sure it is that no man is saved by chance;
he must know how he came by it, namely, by offering violence. Such as
have accustomed themselves to an idle, lazy temper will find it hard to
shake off. “I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on?” (Cant. 5:3).
The spouse had laid herself upon the bed of sloth, and though Christ
knocked at the door, she was loathe to rise and let Him in.
