Songs for Sunday, September 15, 2024 @ Christ Community Church

Sunday is coming!

Jesus is coming!

Those God has saved have a wonderful privilege and opportunity. We GET to gather and worship Him. We GET to serve Him. We GET to tell others about Him and all He has done. And with all we GET to do, there is great opportunity to point people to Him!

I am reminded of Paul in Philippians 3. He lists all of the reasons he has “for confidence in the flesh” in vv. 3-6. He was one of God’s chosen people. He bore the sign of the old covenant in circumcision. He could trace his heritage all the way back — “tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews”. And on top of all of that, he had been a zealous Pharisee to the point of persecuting the Church and fully righteous based on man’s understanding of the law.

On paper, he had everything.

In the eyes of religious men, he was perfect.

But what matters is his (and our) standing before God.

Look at how Paul shows us that he thinks on his former lofty status:

“But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness of God that depends on faith….” (vv. 7-9)

He willingly lost — set aside, trashed, cast away — all of that worldly standing because of “the surpassing worth of knowing Christ [as] Lord”! All of those things that took all of his life to attain were cast aside in a moment when he found something — someONE — better!

What about you?

Once Paul met Jesus, all of the good he thought he had was like filthy garbage or fecal matter (look up that word for “rubbish” in the Greek if you don’t believe me). If you claim Christ, are you carrying His gospel and proclaiming Him or are you walking around carrying garbage or worse?

Here’s a challenge, Christ Community fam: think of one person you know that you are not sure (or maybe you are sure) whether they know Christ as Lord; pray for them, asking God to give you courage and opportunity to share Him and invite them to come with you Sunday; and do it — invite them!

Bringing folks to church is not sharing the gospel, but it is a sweet thing to point people to the One who saved you. It is a good way to tell folks that you don’t have it all together and that, because of the “surpassing worth of knowing Christ”, you put your faith in Him, believed in Him and confessed Him as Lord (Romans 10:9-10)!

John will be preaching from the Word. We will be reading from the Word together and singing about and to Jesus according to the Word.

Who is God putting on your heart?

What lost person are you praying for?

Who will you invite?

Here are our Scriptures & songs:

Scripture | John 3:16-21 —

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because He has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people love the darkness rather than the light because their works are evil. ²⁰For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. ²¹But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

Song | God So Loved —
Scripture Inspiration: Matthew 11:28-30, John 7:37-38, John 4:7-15, Matthew 9:10-13, Psalm 28:6, Luke 13:29, John 6:35-40, Isaiah 58:11, Psalm 34:8-9, Proverbs 8:17, Jeremiah 29:13, John 3:16, 1 Corinthians 10:11-14, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 55:22, Colossians 1:19-20, Colossians 2:13-14, Isaiah 40:11, Luke 15:20, John 14:3, Matthew 25:23, Revelation 20:14, 1 Corinthians 15:54-57, 3 John 2, Galatians 5:13-16, 1 John 4:9-10, Luke 2:14, Psalm 150, Psalm 17:7

Song | How Deep the Father’s Love For Us —
Scripture Inspiration: John 3:16, Romans 5:6-8, Matthew 27:46, Ephesians 1:7, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Romans 8:17, Isaiah 53, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Galatians 3:13, Colossians 2:14, 1 Peter 2:24, John 19:30, Galatians 2:19-20, Galatians 6:14, Psalm 8:4, 1 Timothy 1:15-16

Scripture | John 1:29 —

The next day [John] saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Scripture | Revelation 5:5-10 —

⁵And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that He can open the scroll and its seven seals.”
⁶And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. ⁷And He went and took the scroll from the right hand of Him who was seated on the throne. ⁸And when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. ⁹And they sang a new song, saying,

“Worthy are You to take the scroll and to open its seals, for You were slain, and by Your blood, You ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, ¹⁰and You have made them a Kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth.”