Order, Words, & Voices
10.22.23, Unpleasant Harmony , 2 Samuel 5:1-5; 6:1-5
Order
Pre Worship Music
Call to Worship – Song Lynn & Team
Come, Now is the Time to Worship
From the Inside Out
Call to Worship – Spoken Word Linda/Segun
Worship Response/Lord’s Prayer Rick
Reading 2 Samuel 5:1-5; 6:1-5 Cricklins
Songs Lynn & Team
Great Things
Seek Ye First
Message Unpleasant Harmony Rick
Music Lynn and Team
Revelation Song
Community/Peace Rick
Benediction/Closing Peace Rick
Post Worship Music
Music (slides) – Lynn and Team
Come, Now is the Time to Worship
Come now is the time to worship
Come now is the time to give your heart
Come just as you are to worship
Come just as you are before your God
Come
One day every tongue
Will confess You are God
One day every knee will bow
Still the greatest treasure remains
For those who gladly choose You now
Come now is the time to worship
Come now is the time to give your heart
Come just as you are to worship
Come just as you are before your God
Come
From the Inside Out
A thousand times I’ve failed
Still Your mercy remains
And should I stumble again
Still I’m caught in Your grace
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never-ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart in my soul
Lord I give You control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love You from the inside out
Your will above all else
My purpose remains
The art of losing myself
In bringing You praise
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never-ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart in my soul
Lord I give You control
Consume me from the inside out Lord
Let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love You from the inside out
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never-ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart
Is to bring You praise
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out (Lord)
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out (Lord)
Call to Worship – Spoken Words (Slides) – Linda/Segun
We gather this morning for a moment, a moment of worship, a moment of praise. We gather with countless others in our community, our nation, and around our world who share this common path towards Becoming the Righteousness of God. We gather in places where there is suffering in ways few can begin to imagine.
We gather with those who have experienced victories and those who are hiding their suffering while standing in front of us with a smile on their face. We gather with those whose comfort is guarded with a vigilance that is ultimately impossible to maintain.
We gather for a moment of rest in our struggles, a moment of shared refreshment before God. We share a called, and yet chosen path, a path of grace and a path of works. May we continue to move forward on our path of becoming as we worship the God who is love.
Call to Worship – Responsive Reading (Slides) – Rick
Leader: Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary
Response: Praise him in his mighty firmament
Leader: Praise him for his mighty deeds
Response: Praise him according to his surpassing greatness
Leader: Praise him with trumpet sound
Response: Praise him with lute and harp
Leader: Praise him with tambourine and dance
Response: Praise him with strings and pipe
Leader: Praise him with clanging cymbals
Response: Praise him with loud clashing cymbals
Leader: Let everything that breathes praise the Lord
Response: Praise the Lord!
(Psalm 150)
Lord’s Prayer (Slides) – Rick
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, On Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses, while we forgive those who trespass against us. And, lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Reading Cricklins
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh. For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The Lord said to you, ‘It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.’”
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.
David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.
2 Samuel 5:1-5
David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. David and all the people with him set out and went from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who is enthroned on the cherubim.
They carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart with the ark of God, and Ahio went in front of the ark.
David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.
2 Samuel 6:1-5
Music (Slides) Lynn and Team
Great Things
Come let us worship our King
Come let us bow at His feet
He has done great things
See what our Savior has done
See how His love overcomes
He has done great things
He has done great things
O Hero of Heaven You conquered the grave
You free every captive and break every chain
O God You have done great things
We dance in Your freedom awake and alive
O Jesus our Savior Your name lifted high
O God You have done great things
You’ve been faithful through every storm
You’ll be faithful forevermore
You have done great things
And I know You will do it again
For Your promise is yes and amen
You will do great things
God You do great things
O Hero of Heaven You conquered the grave
You free every captive and break every chain
O God You have done great things
We dance in Your freedom awake and alive
O Jesus our Savior Your name lifted high
O God You have done great things
Hallelujah God above it all
Hallelujah God unshakable
Hallelujah You have done great things
Hallelujah God above it all
Hallelujah God unshakable
Hallelujah You have done great things
O Hero of Heaven You conquered the grave
You free every captive and break every chain
O God You have done great things
We dance in Your freedom awake and alive
O Jesus our Savior Your name lifted high
O God You have done great things
Seek Ye First
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
And His righteousness
And all these things
Shall be added unto you
Allelu alleluia
Ask and it shall be given unto you
Seek and ye shall find
Knock and the door
Shall be opened unto you
Allelu alleluia
Message (Slides) Rick
Introduction
Becoming…
Past
- [Slide – leave screen share up until noted to end] Creation, river in garden that splits into 4 rivers and flows out of garden providing for all peoples that we see throughout the bible experience. A river built, a river created, for our becoming. A river that would become rivers from which would be our avenue of provision from God, our constant proof of God’s existence, and our purpose given to us by God.
- [Slide] Abraham and Sarah, Sarah’s revelation that God’s promise to Abraham is also a promise to her – she is a part not an obstruction to the fulfillment of the promise.
- [Slide] Jacob wrestles God on way to reconcile with brother Esau. Forgiveness given and blessing of promise to Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, is now also promise to Jacob.
- [Slide] Moses asks God to give his name, an impossible task since there is no other word or concept except ‘God’ a word which had already been misused and abused.
- [Slide] Moses prepares the people to stand before God on their own as he will no longer be with them and will no longer stand before God for them (stand in between them and God).
- [Slide] Ruth, a pagan, a non Isrealite makes a choice to follow the God she knows nothing about except for the witness of her mother in law who is as hopeless as Ruth is.
- [Slide] And, this week, we land on Ruth’s great grandson, David, King David. About to be King David of the united tribes of Israel.
- [Slide] Judges to Kings (peoples’ desire/demand to have an In Between), Saul, In between time of disagreement of who is the rightful king, in south it is David, in the north it is Ishbosheth, the surviving son of Saul – David and Ishbosheth’s armies battled for the 7 years both were king – Ishbosheth was killed by his own men thinking that this would bring them favor with the next King David – it did not.
[Slide] Passage
‘all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh. For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The Lord said to you, ‘It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you who shall be ruler over Israel.’” II Sam 5:1-3
[Slide] Bone and Flesh (Israeli Leaders said to David)
- [Slide] “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” Genesis 2:23
- [Slide] Commonality of the twelve tribes who did not necessarily consider themselves to have a commonality
- [Slide] Led Israel out and brought it In
- [Slide] God said, “You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, you shall be ruler over Israel.”
[Slide] David Moved capital from Hebron to Jerusalem
- [Slide] Had to conquer Jerusalem, it was a canaanite city
- [Slide] Politically strategic decision made entirely by David, neutral place
[Slide] David ‘Moved’ God (ark) to Jerusalem
- [Slide] Ark/God at Center
- [Slide] Philistines
- [Slide] First Soldiers, Uzzah, and ‘Saving’ God
- [Slide] Second Attempt w/o military
[End Screen Share]
Israel as Metaphor for the Becoming Church
- David – Imperfect but genuine zeal for God
- Unity/Commonality (commonality of believers and commonality of humans
- Trust in Man/Trust in God
Music (Slides) Lynn and Team
Revelation Song
Worthy is the Lamb Who was slain
Holy holy is He
Sing a new song to Him Who sits on
Heaven’s mercy seat
Holy holy holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was and is and is to come
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of kings
You are my ev’rything
And I will adore You
Clothed in rainbows of living color
Flashes of lightning rolls of thunder
Blessing and honor strength and glory
And power be to You the only wise King
Holy holy holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was and is and is to come
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of kings
You are my ev’rything
And I will adore You
Filled with wonder awestruck wonder
At the mention of Your name
Jesus Your name is power breath and living water
Such a marv’lous mystery yeah
Holy holy holy
Is the Lord God Almighty
Who was and is and is to come
With all creation I sing
Praise to the King of kings
You are my ev’rything
And I will adore You
Community (Slides) Rick
- Next Sunday, Royal Disregard, 1 Kings 12:1-17, 25-29 (Mark 10:42-45)
- Next Book Discussion Luncheon (Today), ‘Making Sense of the Bible’, luncheon will take place today2, following worship.
Benediction (Slides) Rick
As we leave this place we continue on this journey fully dependent on the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We are on this path because of God’s extravagant grace and by our own choice. We are connected to the soil and the pursuit of becoming the righteousness of the Holy God. This is a pursuit that gives us no choice but to face the struggles for in that we are blessed.
We move forward even when we cannot see, we dive into the flowing provision even when the waters appear difficult, we hope even when our despair threatens to consume us, we love because that is the sole path and purpose of becoming. We wrestle through even when our body, and every muscle within us, is exhausted.
And, when our faith seems worthless, when hopelessness rules our reality, and when hatred seems to consume our world, we still choose to move forward in trust, to hope in the empty grave, and to love because that is our path, that is our call.
Closing Peace Rick
Leader: May the Peace and Hope of the Lord go with you.
Response: And also with you.
Leader: Go in the Peace and Hope of the Lord.
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