Description
Luke 20:27-40
The Sadducees wanted answers to their disputes and questions particularly surrounding the subject of death and marriage. Their questions relied on the boundaries of earthly living, but Jesus answered with eternal truths pointing to the resurrection and that God is a God of the living. When we make the decision to follow Jesus, we become the children of God- adopted by Him and resurrected by Jesus Christ into eternal life.
We Lift Our Hearts in Worship
[Preservice options include video countdowns, worship song videos, welcomes), CDs, or live music.]
Welcome & Time of Greeting
Time of Praise and Worship
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Matt Redman & Jonas Myrin, ©2011 Thankyou Music, Said And Done Music, sixsteps Music, SHOUT! Publishing (Admin EMI CMG Publishing)
Our God Saves
Brenton Brown and Paul Baloche, ©2007 Thankyou Music (Admin. by EMI Christian Music Publishing) Integrity’s Hosanna! Music Leadworship Songs (Admin. by Integrity Music, Inc.)
One Thing Remains (Your Love Never Fails)
Brian Johnson, Christa Black, & Jeremy Riddle, ©2010 Bethel Music (Admin. by Bethel Music Publishing) Mercy / Vineyard Publishing (Admin. by Music Services, Inc.) ChristaJoy Music Publishing (Admin. by Bethel Music Publishing)
[Traditional Options]
Holy God, We Praise Your Name
CH 2; EH 366; ELW 414; HWC 12; HFG 385; HLC 9; LBW 535; LSB 940; LW 171; NCH 276; PH 460; RS 657; STTL 12; WC 3; UMH 79; WAR 138; WHM 117
God Himself is Present
LBW 249; LSB 907; LW 206; NCH 68
Alleluia, Song of Gladness
EH 122, 123; ELW 318; HS98 819; LSB 417; WOV 654
Invocation
Pastor / Worship Leader
Praise the Lord! Let us sing together a new song in worship!
Worshipers
We praise the Lord!
Pastor / Worship Leader
May our worship be pleasing to our Holy Creator.
Worshipers
May He take delight in His people.
Opening Prayer / Theme Introduction
Pastor / Worship Leader
Lord, we gather together not in vain but in Your holy name. We are Your people, bought with a price by the blood of the Lamb and resurrected into eternal life only through Jesus, Your Son. We gather to worship, for You alone deserve the highest praise. Hear us, today, Lord.
Worshipers
Hear us, O Lord.
Pastor / Worship Leader
We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Time of Confession and Forgiveness
[Alternate location: following Message]
Pastor / Worship Leader
How many times have You spoken, and we’ve ignored Your voice?
Worshipers
So many times. Lord, forgive us.
Pastor / Worship Leader
How many times have we had itching ears, only listening to what sounds easy and pleasing?
Worshipers
Too many times. Lord, please forgive us we pray.
Pastor / Worship Leader
How many times have we chosen what’s comfortable over what You’ve called us to?
Worshipers
Too many times to count. Lord, forgive us.
Pastor / Worship Leader
Father, You call us into Your light to carry Your torch into the darkness, not to dwell in the darkness. We confess and we seek Your forgiveness. Remove our shame and replace it with love. Take our hand and lead us out of darkness into Your marvelous light. Wash our sins away, and make us white as snow.
Worshipers
Yes, Lord. We need Your forgiveness. We can’t live without it. We ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.
We Hear God’s Word
[Read aloud both the introduction and Scripture]
First Reading Exodus 3:1-15
The Lord God has spoken in many different ways as recorded in Scripture. In this particular passage, He called Moses from a burning bush to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” 4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” 13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’“ This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
