This week we begin our Advent series by looking at the Scriptural themes in David Jackson’s Christmas song “If I Be a Father.” The key verse this is based on is Malachi 1:6, but we’ll also be looking at some of the other verses alluded to in the lyrics of the song. The Worship theme will be Christmas, and the visual will be one of my favorites, “Bleak Midwinter.”
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 171203 Heart Prep
Prelude
Come Children of this Long Discarded Night
Worship:
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Hymn #123 (Piano Guys)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (with lyrics)
In the Bleak Midwinter
Bonus: I just made a lyric video for Audrey Assad’s version: Midwinter
Offertory:
If I Be A Father
Invitation to Communion
Amazing Love (I’m Forgiven)
Benediction:
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus – Hymn #124
Scripture for Meditation: The Father’s Heart and the Son’s Work
1 John 4:14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Malachi 1:6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Luke 15:20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Revelation 5:6-10 And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. 8And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, 10and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”
