Sermon Tone Analysis

God’s people and God’s household

Brought near through the blood of Christ

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!!! Announcements

!!! Doxology Hymn no 53:            /“All people that on earth do dwell”/

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Call to worship

!!!!!! Bible Verse

I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done.

\\ I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.

Selah (Psalm 143:5-6)

!!!!!! Blessing

Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

(Revelation 1:4-5)

!!! Hymn No 306:                                            /“I love your Kingdom Lord”/

!!! Invocation and the Lord’s Prayer

!!!!!! Invocation

Our Father in heaven through Jesus Christ,

We praise You, LORD our God, who is from everlasting to everlasting.

Blessed be your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all blessing and praise.

You alone are the LORD.

You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them.

You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.

(Nehemiah 9:5-6)

We seek your face, please answer us and deliver us from all our fears.

As we look up to You, make us radiant as our face will not be covered with shame.

Poor as we are, we call upon You,; please hear our prayer.

Send your Angel to encamp around us and deliver us.

Grant your mercy upon us so we will taste and see that the Lord is good.

We come before to unite in prayer, saying the words of the prayer You taught your disciples to pray.

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The Lord’s Prayer

!!! Children’s Address

!!! Hymn No 256:                            /“Sing we the King”/

!!! Scripture Reading                     /Psalm 145:1-21/

!!! Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Father, on this special day of celebration and thanksgiving we are gathered here to praise You for your mercies upon us as a church over many years.

We remember the former things, those of long ago.

We worship You Father, and declare that that You are God and there is no other; there is none like You.

You make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times what is still to come.

You say, “My purpose will stand and I will do all that I please.”

What You have said You will bring about; what You have planned You will do.

You promised in your Word that You will bring your righteousness near.

You declared that your salvation will not be delayed.

We know these promises are fulfilled in your Son Jesus Christ.

Therefore we bow in adoration, but also with contrite hearts to confess our sins.

Our rebellious nature caused us top disregard the commands You gave through the prophets.

We are ashamed and disgraced because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.

We are before You in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence.

We ask for forgiveness and restoration.

We pray the You will not account our unrighteousness to us.

We ask for the blood of Christ to cover our sins, and we pray that You will cleanse us in his righteousness.

Restore in us the joy of knowing and loving You.

Give us your Holy Spirit to lead us on the paths of righteousness.

Hear our prayer, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

!!! Declaration of pardoning

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.

The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

(Psalm 145:8, 14)

!!! Hymn No 415:                            /“I belong to Jesus” (tune 271)/

!!! Offering and Dedication

“The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it; the world and all who live in it, for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.”

!!! Hymn no 472:                              /“Fill now my life O Lord my God”/

!!! Prayer for others

Chris and Narelle Bubb and their children who are ill.

Ena Newmann

Jean Mathison

Graham Wells

!!! Scripture Reading                     /Ephesians 2:11-22/

!!! Sermon

!!!!!! Introduction

My dear brother and sister in the Lord,

In 1883 some people got together with a desire to see that a Presbyterian Church in Townsville be established.

It was God’s will that this church was formed and that for 120 years God would call his elect together under the preaching of his Word.

No doubt, as our Confession states, the members of this church and even the preaching coming from its pulpit were over the years sometimes more or sometimes less pure.

The doctrine of the Gospel was no doubt taught and embraced, ordinances administered, and public worship performed sometimes more or sometimes less purely.

(Chapter 25:4)

But by the grace of God and as a result of his faithfulness we can still meet for worship; we can still conduct the business of the church; we can still say we are burning, but not consumed.

Many of the original members had their roots in Scotland where they enjoyed the sound of the Gospel coming from Reformed pulpits.

They were children of the Reformation which had its roots in the Reformers like John Knox and others.

The history is rich and colourful.

And we shout out to the glory of God:  Ebenhaezer -  “Thus far has the Lord helped us”.

!!!!!! *8**  *Into all the world

But let us trace back our history to the very beginning after the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Before He left this world He commanded his disciples to go into all the world to establish the Kingdom of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit and the message of the Word of God.

At first some understood that they should be looking for /Jews/ dispersed right across the world.

But soon, as they were enlightened and empowered by the Holy Spirit, they understood that Jesus meant for the Kingdom of God to be preached to all people all over the world.

They understood the wonder of God’s grace shown to the Jews first in Jesus Christ.

They understood of their salvation which was by faith.

They understood about their election and adoption.

*8*  But what grew on them was this “mystery” – as the apostle Paul states – that the Gospel call was not meant to be exclusively for the Jews.

In Eph 1:9-10 he proclaims:

*8*  And He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.

(Ephesians 1:9-10)

Thus, driven by the Holy Spirit, they went into the four corners of the world to proclaim the Gospel of hope and salvation in Jesus Christ.

He tells about this in chapter 1:11-12:

*8* In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.

(Ephesians 1:11-12)

The “we” in this text refers to the elect of God who were of Jewish descent in the first place.

Paul was one of the converted Jews under the grace of God.

God called them for the praise of his glory.

But the glory of God would only be fulfilled if his chosen and elect of all the nations, tribes and tongues would be gathered in under the Gospel.