The text this week is Deuteronomy 24:17-22 where we see one expression of God’s heart for orphans. The message will focus on our call to care for orphans, but the worship (and communion) will focus on God’s redemption and adoption, rescuing us from sin and slavery.
Here is the link to the Youtube playlist: 160807 Heart Prep
Prelude:
You Made Us Your Own – Sovereign Grace
Worship Set:
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus – Hymn #233
How Deep the Father’s Love for Us – Townend
Offertory:
If You Were Mine – Fernando Ortega
Invitation to Communion:
Arise My Soul Arise – Twila Paris
Benediction:
Before the Throne of God Above
Scripture for Meditation
Slaves Redeemed, Orphans Cared for and Adopted
Deuteronomy 24:17-22 “You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge, 18but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this. 19“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 22You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
Galatians 4:4-7 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Romans 8:12-17 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ.
