Redeemer Church Digital Bulletin
Why Jesus Came
September 26, 2021 / Redeemer Church RiverviewORDER OF WORSHIP:
Welcome
Song of Praise “This I Believe (The Creed) ”
Call to Worship Psalm 143:5-10
Song of Praise “Holy, Holy, Holy”
Confession of Faith WCF 21.2
Song of Praise “Only A Holy God”
Prayer of Adoration
Greet One Another
Confession of Sin The Strassburg Liturgy
Assurance of Pardon Psalm 103:11-13
Prayer of Intercession
Giving of God’s Tithes and Our Offerings
Song of Preparation “King of Kings”
Scripture Reading Mark 1:9-13
Sermon “Identity in the King: Why Jesus Came”
Prayer of Commitment
Song of Response “I Stand Amazed in the Presence (How Marvelous)”
Benediction
SERMON NOTES:
Paul Tripp:
“If you’ve been given identity in Christ, why would you look for it in people, situations, and experiences of everyday life?”
- JESUS’ WITH
2 Corinthians 5:21
Sinclair Ferguson:
“Here already, Jesus indicates how He will become our Savior – by standing in the river in whose waters penitent Jews had symbolically washed away their sins, and allowing that water, polluted by those sins, to be poured over His perfect being.”
Philip Bliss:
“Guilty, vile and helpless we, spotless Lamb of God was He. Full atonement, can it be? Hallelujah! What a Savior!”
Gresham Machen:
“Thank God for the active obedience of Christ.”
2. JESUS’ FOR
Mark 1:10
Genesis 1:2 from the Targum:
“And the earth was without form and empty and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the spirit of God fluttered above the face of the waters like a dove.”
3. JESUS’ FROM THE AND THE
Mark1:11
John 17:4-5
C.S. Lewis:
“In Christianity God is not a static thing… but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama.
Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.”
Cornelius Plantinga:
“The persons within God exalt each other, commune with each other, and defer to one another…. Each divine person harbors the others at the center of his being. In constant movement of overture and acceptance, each person envelops and encircles the others…. God’s interior life therefore overflows with regard for others.”
4. JESUS’ AS THE
Isaac Watts:
“No more let sins and sorrows grow nor thorns infest the ground He comes to make His blessings flow, far as the curse is found”
Philippians 2:1-4