This week we continue our Spring series for 2022, Romans Part 1 – Righteousness From God, Yay! In Romans 7:1-13 we’ll see that we should flee the law that deceives and kills you to serve the one who sets you free. The worship theme is “We Belong to Him,” and the visual theme will be “Cemetery Sunrise,” for Jesus shines light into our darkness.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 220522 Heart Prep
Call to Worship:
This is Amazing Grace
Psalm 40:1–5 I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. 2He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. 3He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. 4Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! 5You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.
Isaiah 38:17 17Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
Worship Set:
Draw Me Close To You
Jesus Lover of My Soul (Hillsong Worship)
Preparation for Prayer:
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Closing Worship:
Whom Shall I Fear? (God of Angel Armies)
Bonus Music: New Music by Jill Phillips
Generous Mercy
Scripture for Meditation:
2 Corinthians 3:12–18 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 13not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. 14But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. 15Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. 16But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. 17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Galatians 4:21–26 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Galatians 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
