This week we continue our Spring series for 2022, Romans Part 1 – Righteousness From God, Yay! In Romans 8:18-25 we’ll see that creation groans. We groan. Yet we wait eagerly for what is to come. The worship theme is “Longing in Hope” and the visual theme is ice breaking up – which is an image of creation groaning.
Here is the link to the YouTube playlist: 220619 Heart Prep
Call to Worship:
Nothing But the Blood of Jesus – Hymn #195
1 Peter 1:3–5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Corinthians 15:51–57 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Worship Set:
Cornerstone – Hillsong
How Deep the Father’s Love for us
Closing Worship:
Holy, Holy, Holy – Hymn #262
Bonus Music: This is not a new song on our YouTube channel, but it fits our text perfectly.
She Waits by the Gray Havens
Scripture for Meditation:
Exodus 2:23–25 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
2 Corinthians 5:1–5 For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, 3if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. 4For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.