Worship Preparation - November 3, 2024
Read the sermon text: Matthew 5:17-48
Read the sermon summary: Does your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees? How so? This Sunday we will continue our sermon series about the Kingdom of God from the Sermon on the Mount. Last week we saw the character of citizens of the Kingdom. They are humbly and patiently waiting for the King to return to deliver them from the kingdom of darkness and suffering. This week we will consider righteousness according to the Kingdom of God. Specifically, what is it about the righteousness of the Kingdom that is different from and exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees and the kingdoms of this present age? In preparation for the sermon consider the following questions: What do you think it means that not an iota or a dot will pass away from the Law until all is accomplished? What is the pattern of Jesus' teaching in verses 17-47? What does it mean that you "must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect"?
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Come Thou Fount (Above All Else)
Verse 1
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Verse 2
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I'm come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wand'ring from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
Verse 3
Oh to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be
Let Thy goodness like a fetter
Bind my wand'ring heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart Lord take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above
Bridge
(Above) All else I adore Your name
Above all else tune my heart to sing Your praise
Above all else I adore Your name
Above all else tune my heart to sing Your praise
Tag
The highest praise
The loudest praise
To the name above every name
CCLI Song #7029505
Robert Robinson | Shane Barnard
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