Order, Words, & Voices
08.04.24, Faces, Joseph of Arimathea, Luke 23:59-56
Order
Pre Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
Songs Holy Spirit Pato/Linda
How He Loves Me
Passage/Prayer Luke 23:50-56 Pettys
Songs Because He Lives (Amen) Pato/Linda
Message Joseph of Arimathea Rick
Music Because He Lives (Amen) Pato/Linda
Community/Benediction Rick
Hope Moment & Closing Peace Rick
Closing Music Sweet Sweet, Spirit Pato/Linda
Post Worship Music – Spotify – Open and Close
- Please record message on camera memory card.
- On the message Video Leave Room above Speaker’s head for the instagram post.
- Screen Share for entire message
Music (Slides) Pato/Linda
Holy Spirit CCLI Song # 6087919
Verse 1
There’s nothing worth more that will ever come close
No thing can compare You’re our living hope
Your Presence
Verse 2
I’ve tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves
Where my heart becomes free and my shame is undone
In Your Presence Lord
Chorus
Holy Spirit You are welcome here
Come flood this place and fill the atmosphere
Your glory God is what our hearts long for
To be overcome by Your Presence Lord
Interlude
Your Presence Lord
Interlude
Your Presence Lord
Your Presence
Oh God how we love Your Presence Lord
Bridge
Let us become more aware of Your Presence
Let us experience the glory of Your goodness (Lord)
How He Loves Me CCLI Song #5032549
Verse 1
He is jealous for me loves like a hurricane
I am a tree bending beneath
The weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden I am unaware of
These afflictions eclipsed by glory
I realize just how beautiful You are
And how great Your affections are for me
Pre-Chorus
Oh how He loves us so
Oh how He loves us
How He loves us so
Chorus
He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Oh how He loves
Verse 2
We are His portion and He is our prize
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we’re all sinking
So Heaven meets earth
Like a sloppy wet unforeseen kiss
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets
When I think about the way that
Pre-Chorus
Oh how He loves us so
Oh how He loves us
How He loves us so
Chorus
He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Oh how He loves us
Oh how He loves
Passage (Slides) Joseph of Arimathea Luke 23:50-56
Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph who, though a member of the council, had not agreed to the council’s plan and actions to get rid of Jesus.
Joseph came from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was faithful before God and expectantly waiting for the kingdom of God.
As Jesus’ death was confirmed, Joseph went to Pilate and asked for the body.
With Pilate’s approval, Joseph took Jesus’ body from the cross. He wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid it in a rock-hewn tomb where no other body had ever been laid.
This was the day of Preparation, the day before the Sabbath.
This was also the day before the Passover. The season when the Israelites recognized God’s deliverance from slavery and death.
The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph at a distance to see the tomb where Jesus’ body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
On the Sabbath they rested in accordance with the law.
Join me in the prayer of Jesus,
Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be your 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
Music (Slides Pato/Linda
Because He Lives (Amen) CCLI Song # 7027887
Verse 1
I believe in the Son
I believe in the Risen One
I believe I overcome
By the power of His blood
Chorus
Amen amen
I’m alive I’m alive because He lives
Amen amen
Let my song join the one that never ends
(Because He lives)
Verse 2
I was dead in the grave
I was covered in sin and shame
I heard mercy call my name
He rolled the stone away
Bridge
Because He lives I can face tomorrow
Because He lives ev’ry fear is gone
I know He holds my life
My future in His hand
Ending
Because He lives
Message Rick (Slides)
[S] [Title Slide on Screen Share throughout message]
Olympic Torch Relay
- 2024 details – Singular focus
- Prometheus – Fire (Nudge)
- Let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider Him who has endured such hostility against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:1b-3
Joseph of Arimathea – a man of faith who landed in season of turmoil.
- Unexpected knottiness
- Uunity/disagreement/brotherhood/rejection/hostility
- Faith restricted, times when religion insisted he ‘BE something else’
- Joseph appears cowardly
- God’s time – Joseph uses voice to disagree
- In right time, Joseph steps in – God’s timing (NC Youth)
- Coward? Staying on destination that now looks different than brothers
- True faith – Waiting, Walking, Speaking, Stepping up and into
- Needed hero, no one else was ready/willing to do this. His Destination.
Called by God
- We are not all called to the same journey, but we are all called to the same destination.
- We are not called to the same path, but we are all called to the same love.
- We are not all called to the same steps, but we are all called to the same unity.
- We are not all called to the same practices, but, we are called to the same motivation and purpose.
In 1884 during unsure times, British preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon spoke to his church about Joseph of Arimethia, ending his message with these words of encouragement
Let this be remembered in the cloudy and dark days. If you live in any place where the faithful have fallen, do not wring your hands in grief and sit down in despair, as though it was all over with the cause you love. The Lord liveth, and the Lord will yet keep a faithful seed alive in the earth.
Another Joseph of Arimathæa will come forward at the desperate moment: just when we cannot do without that Joseph, when we most need that Joseph this Joseph will step up.
There was a Joseph for Israel in Egypt, and there was a Joseph for Jesus on the cross. A Joseph played the father’s roll at Jesus’ birth, and another Joseph arranged for Jesus’ burial. The Lord shall not be left without friends, God will always give us a Joseph
When the eyes of God’s servant Eli failed and his sons made themselves vile, a mother, a Joseph, brought a little boy, a Joseph, to serve in the sanctuary of God. A child who became a man named Samuel who brought the people through deliverance from oppression.
God hath to-day somewhere, in yon obscure cottage of an English village, or in a log-hut far away in the backwoods of America, or in the slums of our back streets, or in our palaces, a person, a Joseph, who the Lord is making ready, and when the time shall come, when the hour shall want, shall need, this person, that Joseph shall be found. A Joseph of Arimathæa arrives at exactly the needed time, a well of consolation for all who have the cause of God laid upon their hearts.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Preached July 6, 1884, London Metropolitan Tabernacle, Pulpit Vol 30, adapted
Music (Slides) Pato/Linda
Because He Lives (Amen) CCLI Song # 7027887
Verse 1
I believe in the Son
I believe in the Risen One
I believe I overcome
By the power of His blood
Chorus
Amen amen
I’m alive I’m alive because He lives
Amen amen
Let my song join the one that never ends
(Because He lives)
Verse 2
I was dead in the grave
I was covered in sin and shame
I heard mercy call my name
He rolled the stone away
Bridge
Because He lives I can face tomorrow
Because He lives ev’ry fear is gone
I know He holds my life
My future in His hand
Ending
Because He lives
Community (Slides) Rick
- 08.11.24, Mary Magdalene, Mark 16:1-11
- Welcome Students, Pizza Lunch following morning worship
Holding On To Hope (Slides) Rick
Source
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13
Calling to Be Avenue of Hope
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not just choose to please ourselves. Each of us is to please his neighbor for our neighbors’ good, to his edification. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The taunts of those who taunt You have fallen on Me.”
For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Now may the God who gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another, according to Christ Jesus, so that with one purpose and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 15:1-6
Daily Prayer for Hope
God, may I, minute by minute, grasp the truth that you alone are my hope.
Lord, may my actions, step by step, be proof of that truth revealed to the world.
Spirit, may I walk, run, wait, stand, play, and even rest according to your leading. Amen.
Closing Peace (Slides) Rick
Leader: May the peace of the Lord go with you.
Response: And also with you.
Closing Music Pato/Linda
Sweet Sweet Spirit CCLI Song # 18204
Verse 1
There’s a sweet sweet Spirit
in this place
And I know that it’s the
Spirit of the Lord
There are sweet expressions
on each face
And I know they feel
the presence of the Lord
Chorus
Sweet Holy Spirit
Sweet heavenly Dove
Stay right here with us
Filling us with Your love
And for these blessings
We lift our hearts in praise
Without a doubt we’ll know
That we have been revived
When we shall leave this place
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