Here is the worship guide for Sunday, July 12, 2020.
PDF version of the worship guide to download or print.
The livestream will begin at 10:30 a.m. on our Facebook page.
Welcome and Announcements
Opening Prayer
Hymn: “My Worth Is Not in What I Own”
Words and music by Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, and Graham Kendrick
My worth is not in what I own,
not in the strength of flesh and bone,
but in the costly wounds of love at the cross.
My worth is not in skill or name,
in win or lose, in pride or shame,
but in the blood of Christ that flowed at the cross.
I rejoice in my Redeemer, Greatest Treasure,
Wellspring of my soul,
I will trust in Him, no other;
my soul is satisfied in Him alone.
As summer flowers we fade and die;
fame, youth, and beauty hurry by,
but life eternal calls to us at the cross.
I will not boast in wealth or might,
or human wisdom’s fleeting light,
but I will boast in knowing Christ at the cross.
I rejoice in my Redeemer, Greatest Treasure,
Wellspring of my soul,
I will trust in Him, no other;
my soul is satisfied in Him alone.
Two wonders here that I confess:
my worth and my unworthiness,
my value fixed, my ransom paid at the cross.
Hymn: “Speak, O Lord”
Words and music by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend
Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
to receive the food of Your Holy Word.
Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;
shape and fashion us in Your likeness,
that the light of Christ might be seen today
in our acts of love and our deeds of faith.
Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us
all Your purposes for Your glory.
Teach us, Lord, full obedience,
holy reverence, true humility.
Test our thoughts and our attitudes
in the radiance of Your purity.
Cause our faith to rise; cause our eyes to see
your majestic love and authority.
Words of pow’r that can never fail,
let their truth prevail over unbelief.
Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds;
help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us.
Truths unchanged from the dawn of time
that will echo down through eternity.
And by grace we’ll stand on Your promises,
and by faith we’ll walk as You walk with us.
Speak, O Lord, till Your church is built
and the earth is filled with Your glory.
Scripture Reading and Prayer:
Psalm 141 (ESV) A Psalm of David.
1 O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to you!
2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
3 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;
keep watch over the door of my lips!
4 Do not let my heart incline to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity,
and let me not eat of their delicacies!
5 Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;
let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
6 When their judges are thrown over the cliff,
then they shall hear my words, for they are pleasant.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth,
so shall our bones be scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 But my eyes are toward you, O God, my Lord;
in you I seek refuge; leave me not defenseless!
9 Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me
and from the snares of evildoers!
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.
Sermon: “Pride Goes before Destruction”
We will look at several Proverbs, including some of the following:
Proverbs 11:2 (ESV)
When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 15:25 (ESV)
The Lord tears down the house of the proud
but maintains the widow’s boundaries.
Proverbs 15:33 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
and humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 16:5 (ESV)
Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord;
be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 16:18–19 (ESV)
18 Pride goes before destruction,
and a haughty spirit before a fall.|
19 It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor
than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 18:12 (ESV)
Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty,
but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 21:4 (ESV)
Haughty eyes and a proud heart,
the lamp of the wicked, are sin.
Proverbs 22:4 (ESV)
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 25:6–7 (ESV)
6 Do not put yourself forward in the king’s presence
or stand in the place of the great,
7 for it is better to be told, “Come up here,”
than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.
What your eyes have seen
Proverbs 27:1–2 (ESV)
1 Do not boast about tomorrow,
for you do not know what a day may bring.
2 Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 29:23 (ESV)
One’s pride will bring him low,
but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Hymn: “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”
Words by Isaac Watts, music by Lowell Mason
When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of glory died,
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast
save in the death of Christ, my God;
all the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to His blood.
See, from His head, His hands, His feet,
sorrow and love flow mingled down;
did e’er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a crown?
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were a present far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.
Benediction
Numbers 6:24–26 (ESV)
24 The Lord bless you and keep you;
25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.