The path that follows ‘Your will be done’ for Jesus is one of betrayal and rejection.
But make no mistake, He is not being dragged along against His will to an uncertain destination.
Jesus purposely walks this path of alienation and condemnation of His own free will.
Thanksgiving is our theme, and we’ll prepare for worship singing My Heart Is Filled With Thankfulness and All Things Bright And Beautiful.
I Praise You Lord will commence our service, with our prayer of adoration and confession recalling God’s love, our alienation and condemnation and how we are saved by Jesus enduring that in our place. We’ll continue to thank the Triune God for His blessings toward us singing There Is A Redeemer, after which we’ll again confess our faith with the Nicene Creed and sing Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow.
In Jeremiah 17:14-27 we’ll hear Jeremiah’s prayer for deliverance and God’s promised blessing if His people will keep the Sabbath.
In thankfulness for the fruitfulness of our lives and the region in which we live we’ll praise God with We Plough The Fields And Scatter, (the national anthem of Harvest Festival).
Matthew 26:47-68 leads us into an understanding of the cup which filled Jesus with such dread. The shepherd begins to feel the blows of God’s judgment and His disciples start to scatter. Then, after the clearest testimony yet about who He is Jesus is comprehensively rejected and condemned to death. Those who follow Jesus even now will experience an aspect of this rejection, but we are spared the comprehensively destructive power of God’s punishment.
After the sermon we’ll hear a special presentation about our ministry and mission plans for 2013, including our proposed budget which we hope God will fulfill through our giving.
Then our prayers of thanksgiving and for others; our tithes and offerings and the close of our service singing Let All Things Now Living.
Soli Deo Gloria.
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