Bulletin & Hymns

Friedens Reformed Church 

P.O. Box J, Tripp, South Dakota 57376

Church: 605-935-6758 Pastor Andy: 605-505-1010

Affiliated with: The Evangelical Association of Reformed & Congregational Christian Churches

July 19, 2020          

Opening Prayer: 

**Opening Hymn: All People Who on Earth Do Dwell 20

** Invocation: I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens; your faithfulness extends to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

**Call to Worship: Psalm 121

M: I will lift up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help?

C: My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

M: He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.

C: Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

M: The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.

C: The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

M: The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.

C: The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.

Reading of the Law: Exodus 20:1-17 

**Prayer of Confession: Almighty and most merciful Father; We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us, miserable offenders. Spare thou them, O God, which confess their faults. Restore thou them that are penitent; According to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord. And grant, O most merciful Father, for his sake; That we may hereafter live a godly, righteous and sober life. To the Glory of thy holy Name. Amen.

Assurance of Absolution: 

Hymn: Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing 2

**Old Testament Reading: 

**The Apostles’ Creed

**The Gloria Patri 

Reading of Sermon Text: John 6:37-40, 44

Children’s Sermon

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Sermon: Irresistible Grace

Sermon Outline:

I. None but those drawn come

II. Those drawn come

III. Those drawn are kept

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Pastoral Prayer

Lord’s Prayer

The Offertory Hymn: Crown Him With Many Crowns 234

**Doxology

**Prayer of Dedication

**Closing Hymn: Amazing Grace 202

**Benediction

Postlude

“[t]hou hast been so pierced by the arrow of election, and hast so learned the beauty of the Bridegroom, that thou too canst say with the bridal drama and song, thou art sweetness and altogether loveliness. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390)

"The grace offered by the Lord is not merely one which every individual has full liberty of choosing to receive or reject, but a grace which produces in the heart both choice and will: so that all the good works which follow after are its fruit and effect; the only will which yields obedience being the will which grace itself has made." – Augustine (354-430)

“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.” William Ames (1576-1633)

“In the first creation, God made man after His own Image. So in the second creation or regeneration, God doth create men after His own image, in knowledge, righteousness, true holiness, and love.” Vavasor Powell (1617-1670)

“This calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit, to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him.” Francis Turretin (1623-1687)

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Isaiah 59:10-21

We grope for the wall like the blind, And we grope as if we had no eyes; We stumble at noonday as at twilight; We are as dead men in desolate places. We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them: In transgressing and lying against the Lord, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter. So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice. He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, And was clad with zeal as a cloak. According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay. So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.

“The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,” Says the Lord. “As for Me,” says the Lord, “this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants’ descendants,” says the Lord, “from this time and forevermore.”