The ‘seed’ text this week is Leviticus 26:11-13, which summarizes the reason for God’s long redemptive work for fallen man: I will be your God, you will be my people, and I will dwell among you. We will be looking at the arc of this promise across all of Scripture. Our worship will focus on the same promise to dwell with us, and our visual theme will be of the place that happened, before the fall – in a garden.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 160828 Heart Prep
Prelude:
Restless – Audrey Assad
Worship Set:
Better is One Day
Genesis 2:8-9 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9And out of the ground the LORD God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 3:4-8 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. 7Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. 8And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Psalm 90- No YouTube video available
Jeremiah 31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Leviticus 26:11-13 I will make my dwelling among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. 12And I will walk among you and will be your God, and you shall be my people.
Ezekiel 37:26-27 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. 27My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Offertory:
God With Us – All Sons and Daughters
Benedictions:
Immanuel – Michael Card
Love Divine All Loves Excelling – (Traditional Tune) – Hymn #92
