King of my life I crown Thee now
Thine shall the glory be;
Lest I forget Thy thorn-crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.
Chorus: Lest I forget Gethsemane,
Lest I forget Thine agony,
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary
Show me the tomb where Thou wast laid,
Tenderly mourned and wept;
Angels in robes of light arrayed
Guarded Thee whilst Thou slept. Chorus
Let me like Mary, thru the gloom,
Come with a gift to Thee,
Show to me now the empty tomb
Lead me to Calvary. Chorus
May I be willing, Lord, to bear
Daily my cross for Thee;
Even Thy cup of grief to share
Thou hast borne all for me. Chorus
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see!
The Lord has promised good to me; His Word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures.
Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come;
‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise, Than when we’d first begun.
I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me, A sinner, condemned unclean.
Chorus: Oh, how marvelous! Oh how wonderful!
And my song shall ever be:
Oh how marvelous! Oh how wonderful
Is my Savior’s love for me!
For me it was in the garden, He prayed, “Not my will, but Thine;”
He had no tears for His own griefs, But sweat drops of blood for mine. Chorus
He took my sins and my sorrows, He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calvary, And suffered and died alone. Chorus
When with the ransomed in glory His face I at last shall see,
‘Twill be my joy through the ages to sing of His love for me. Chorus
When I stand accused by my regrets
And the devil roars his empty threats
I will preach the gospel to myself
That I am not a man condemned,
For Jesus Christ is my defense.
Chorus My sin is nailed to the cross.
My soul is healed by the scars.
The weight of sin I bear no more.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
When my doubt and shame hang over me
Like the arrows of the enemy
I will run again to Calvary
That rugged hill of hell’s defeat
My fortress and victory. Chorus
Bridge It is finished, sin is vanquished.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
All the glory, all the honor
To my Savior, Christ the Lord. Repeat
When I stand before the throne at last,
His blood will plead my innocence.
I will worship Him with holy hands
And raise the song that never ends.
Of Jesus Christ my righteousness
Jesus came to fulfill a mission: crushing the serpent’s head, i.e. saving humanity. In this lesson, we have humanity’s fall into sin, and God’s first promise to send a Savior to rescue us.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
Jesus explains His mission to His disciples: suffer and die for the salvation of humanity.
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.
22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. 26 What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done.
28 “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. 2 For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. 4 I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
INVOCATION
P: We worship this morning in the name of the Father.
C: Who gave us our life through His almighty power.
P: And in the name of the Son.
C: Who redeemed our life with His precious blood.
P: And in the name of the Holy Spirit.
C: Who gave us eternal life through faith in Christ.
CALL TO WORSHIP
P: Come, let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith, Who for the joy set before Him, endured the cross in spite of the shame.
Alas, and did my Savior bleed
And did my sovereign die
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a one as I.
P: But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on Him and by His wounds we are healed.
Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree.
Amazing pity, grace unknown
And love beyond degree.
P: About the sixth hour, darkness came over the whole land, for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple tore in two. Jesus called out in a loud voice, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” When He had said this, He breathed His last.
Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut its glories in
When Christ, the mighty Maker died,
For His own creatures sin.
P: Praise the Lord, o my soul, and forget not all His benefits – Who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases.
Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness
And melt my eyes to tears.
P: Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer yourselves as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.
But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe
Dear Lord, I give myself away
‘Tis all that I can do.
PSALM 38 – a penitential psalm.
P: O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger
C: Or discipline me in Your wrath.
P: For Your arrows have pierced me,
C: And Your hand has come down upon me.
P: Because of Your wrath there is no health in my body;
C: My bones have no soundness because of my sin.
P: My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
C: My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly.
P: I am bowed down and brought very low;
C: All day long I go about mourning.
P: My back is filled with searing pain;
C: There is no health in my body.
P: I am feeble and utterly crushed;
C: I groan in anguish of heart.
P: All my longings lie open before You, O Lord;
C: My sighing is not hidden from You.
P: My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
C: Even the light has gone from my eyes.
P: My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
C: My neighbors stay far away.
P: Those who seek my life set their traps,
C: Those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
P: All day long they plot deception.
C: I am like a deaf man, who cannot hear,
P: Like a mute, who cannot open his mouth;
C: I have become like a man who does not hear,
P: Whose mouth can offer no reply.
C: I wait for You, O LORD;
P: You will answer, O Lord my God.
C: For I said, "Do not let them gloat
P: Or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
C: For I am about to fall,
P: And my pain is ever with me.
C: I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.
P: Many are those who are my vigorous enemies;
C: Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
P: Those who repay my good with evil slander me
C: When I pursue what is good.
P: O LORD, do not forsake me;
C: Be not far from me, O my God.
P: Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
ALL: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever and ever. Amen.
LENTEN CONFESSION
C: Dear Savior, I have come to the foot of the cross many times in the past year with my load of sins. Once more I come, admitting that I am a sinner since birth, even from the time I was conceived. Once more I bring my load of transgression against God’s holy law and place it on You. Help me, dear Jesus, during this season of Lent, to understand what great love You have shown to me in carrying all my burdens to the cross. Give me the will and the desire to turn from my sin. Give me the faith and courage to take up whatever cross You give me, and follow You, day by day, to life eternal. Amen.
P: Christ Himself carried our sins in His body to the cross. It is by His wounds that you have been healed.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
THANK OFFERING
PRAYERS
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LORD’S PRAYER: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power and the glory are Yours now and forever. Amen.
BENEDICTION
P: The Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make His face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
The Lord look on you with favor and give you peace.
Amen. Amen. Amen.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS