Songs for Sunday, May 25, 2025 @ Christ Community Church

Sunday’s coming, and that’s good news!

Let me clarify, specifically, what I’m thinking about Sunday coming being good news. I’m talking about the Lord’s Day, but I’m also talking about the Day of the Lord when He comes and gets His people.

This world is hard and full of tribulations and sorrows. There is good, and that can only be attributed to Jesus, but there is a lot of…well, a lot.

There’s a lot of pain. A lot of questions. A lot of reasons to feel weary, overwhelmed, or even undone. But Sunday is coming — JESUS is coming. And that’s good news.

It’s good news for us because Sunday is the Lord’s Day — the first day of the week when we remember that Jesus rose from the dead, victorious over sin and death. It’s also good news because it reminds us that the Day of the Lord is still ahead — when He will come again, right every wrong, wipe away every tear, and bring His people home.

Until that Day comes, we live in the tension, in a broken world with hopeful hearts. We are people who still struggle. We still suffer. And unfortunately we still sin. Yet by grace we have a great high priest — Jesus Christ — who not only reigns from the throne but invites us to draw near as we see in Hebrews 4:14-16:

14 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

This is the throne of the King of kings, the One who is seated high and holy (Revelation 4), yet He still welcomes sinners and sufferers who have been saved by grace through faith in Him to come boldly. We don’t draw near because we’ve got it all together—we draw near because Jesus does.

This Sunday at Christ Community, Lord willing, we will lift our eyes to the throne, beginning with Psalm 24, asking “Who is this King of Glory?” and joyfully answering, “The LORD of hosts, He is the King of Glory!” (Psalm 24:10)

And then, together, we’ll join the worship of heaven found in Revelation 4 and 5 where saints and angels cry out that Jesus alone is worthy of worship and “holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty”!

You may not feel worthy to approach His throne—I know I don’t. So let’s settle that here: we’re not. But He is. He is worthy of worship, worthy of being sought, worthy of glory, praise, and honor. And He, the Worthy One, has invited us.

He wants us to approach. Because He “has passed through the heavens” (Hebrews 4:14) and sympathizes “with our weaknesses” (Hebrews 4:15). Because He loves us and cares for us and wants to give us the mercy we need and to help us find the grace we need “to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).

He wants us.

And because He does, we can approach His throne with the confidence of a toddler approaching their mommy or daddy’s bed to ask for water at three in the morning. If earthly parents and caretakers can show grace like that, how much more will our “great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13)?

So let’s approach together. Let’s lay our burdens down. Let’s seek Him and make much of Him. We may not always feel like it. Everything in life may seem to be pulling us back. But we get to do this. And we need to—if for no other reason than that He wants us to.

Won’t you gather with us?

Here are our Scriptures and songs:

1The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, 2for He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers.

3Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in His holy place? 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. 5He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah.

7Lift up your heads, O gates! And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in. 8Who is this King of Glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle! 9Lift up your heads, O gates! And lift them up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may come in. 10Who is this King of Glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of Glory! Selah

8And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say,

“Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

9And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

11“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”

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.”

11Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12saying with a loud voice,

“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!”

13And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying,

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

14And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

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