WORSHIP TOGETHER

GATHERING AND WELCOME

CALL TO WORSHIP

FROM ISAIAH 57, PHILIPPIANS 2, AND EXODUS 15

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:

“I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”

Though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

But emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 

Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

WHO IS LIKE THE LORD OUR GOD (PSALM 113)

Our Father, he lifts from the ashes,
He raises the poor and the lost;
He seats them to dine at his table,
To feast without money or cost.
The lonely he settles in families,
The barren a mother he makes;
O happy the heart of the stranger
Who’s welcomed by this King of Grace.

Who is like the LORD our God?
Who, with glory, fills the sky,
But humbles himself with the broken to dwell?
Who is like our God?

Though equal to God in his glory,
Christ Jesus became like a slave;
He humbled himself in obedience
To Death, and the Cross, and the Grave.
Victorious, he rose to the highest;
In glory, the Savior was raised.
His name above all names exalted;
The heav’ns and the earth sing his praise!

Who is like the LORD our God?
Who, with glory, fills the sky,
But humbles himself with the broken to dwell?
Who is like our God?

O Saints, fix your eyes on the Savior
And count all your righteousness loss.
Be found in his love and his favor,
And share in his death on the cross;
That all of his power in victory,
Imparted to you may abound,
And sharing the suff’rings of Jesus,
You share in his glory and crown!

Who is like the LORD our God?
Who, with glory, fills the sky,
But humbles himself with the broken to dwell?
Who is like our God?

Words: Wendell Kimbrough; Music: Wendell Kimbrough & Bruce Benedict; © 2013 Wendell Kimbrough; CCLI License 11029770

DOXOLOGY (GOD BE PRAISED)

Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise him all creatures here below
Praise him above ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost

Praise the Father, praise the Son
Praise the Spirit now with us
Every moment, all our days
God be praised, God be praised

Praise God with morning’s breaking light
Praise him through darkness of the night
Praise him with every breath of life
Praise him my soul with all your might

Praise the Father, praise the Son
Praise the Spirit now with us
Every moment, all our days
God be praised, God be praised

Praise God when face to face we see
The One who died to set us free
The One who rose in victory
Praise now forever Christ our King

Praise the Father, praise the Son
Praise the Spirit now with us
Every moment, all our days
God be praised, God be praised

Praise you Father, praise you Son
Praise you Spirit, now with us
Every moment, all our days
God be praised, God be praised

Words/Music: Todd Fields and Thomas Ken; Arr. Todd Fields; ©2017 SIXFIELDSMUSIC; CCLI License 11029770

NEW TESTAMENT READING

JOHN 13:1–17

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

PASTORAL PRAYER

GIVING

GOOD SHEPHERD OF MY SOUL

Good Shepherd of my soul,
come dwell within me;
Take all I am and mold
your likeness in me.
Before the cross of Christ,
this is my sacrifice:
A life laid down and ready to follow.

The troubled find their peace
in true surrender;
The prisoners their release
from chains of anger.
In springs of living grace
I find a resting place
To rise refreshed and ready to follow.

I’ll walk this narrow road
with Christ before me;
Where thorns and thistles grow,
and cords ensnare me.
Though doubted and denied,
He never leaves my side,
But lifts my head and calls me to follow.

And when my days are gone,
my strength is failing,
He’ll carry me along
through death’s unveiling.
Earth’s struggles overcome,
heaven’s journey just begun:
To search Christ’s depths and ever to follow.
To search Christ’s depths and ever to follow.

Words/Music: Fionan de Barra, Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty & Stuart Townend; © 2014 Townend Songs and Getty Music Publishing; CCLI License 11029770

SERMON

1 Peter 5:1–5

¹ So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: ² shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; ³ not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. ⁵ Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Clothed in Humility

1. Jesus calls church leaders to humility (vv. 1–4)

2. Jesus calls the church to humility (v. 5)

BEHOLD OUR GOD

Who has held the oceans in his hand?
Who has numbered every grain of sand?
Kings and nations tremble at his voice;
All creation rises to rejoice.

Behold our God, seated on his throne;
come, let us adore him!
Behold our King, nothing can compare;
come, let us adore him!

Who has given counsel to the Lord?
Who can question any of his words?
Who can teach the One who knows all things?
Who can fathom all his wondrous deeds?

Behold our God, seated on his throne;
come, let us adore him!
Behold our King, nothing can compare;
come, let us adore him!

Who has felt the nails upon his hands,
Bearing all the guilt of sinful man?
God eternal, humbled to the grave;
Jesus, Savior, risen now to reign!

Behold our God, seated on his throne;
come, let us adore him!
Behold our King, nothing can compare;
come, let us adore him!

You will reign forever! You will reign forever!

You will reign forever! (Let your glory fill the earth!)
[repeat]

Behold our God, seated on his throne;
come, let us adore him!
Behold our King, nothing can compare;
come, let us adore!

Behold our God, seated on his throne;
come, let us adore him!
Behold our King, nothing can compare;
come, let us adore him!

Words/Music: Ryan & Meghan Baird; © 2011 Sovereign Grace Worship; CCLI License 11029770

BENEDICTION