This Is How We Worship - Psalm 34:1-10

African Methodist Episcopal Church 140 Rose Street Athens, Georgia 30606 The Reverend Marben Bland, Pastor

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

11:00 AM

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Order Of Worship November 5, 2023 – 11:00 AM All Saints Day

Doxology Call To Worship Opening Hymn #415 My Faith Looks Up to Thee The Invocation The Invocation Response #415 My Faith Looks Up to Thee Song Of Praise Announcements – Pastor’s Aid Ministry Worship In Giving A Tribute To The Saints Today we will reflect on the lives our departed brothers and sisters with special emphasis on those who have died within the past year. Members are invited to light candles in remembrance of love ones who have died.

The Apostles’ Creed Song Of Praise Scripture – Psalm 34:1-10 Summary Of The Decalogue Song Of Preparation Message This Is How We Worship Invitation To Discipleship #364 My Hope Is Built Holy Communion Benediction

This Is How We Worship A Call To Worship Inspired By Psalm 34

Leader: I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

People: O magnify the LORD with me and let us exalt his name together.

Leader: I sought the LORD People: And he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

#415 My Faith Looks Up to Thee Ray Palmer/Lowell Mason

1. My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine! Now hear me while I pray, Take all my guilt away, O let me from this day be wholly Thine!

2. May Thy rich grace impart Strength to my fainting heart, My zeal inspire; As Thou hast died for me, O may my love to Thee, Pure, warm, and changeless be, a living fire!

3. While life’s dark maze I tread, And griefs around me spread, Be Thou my guide; Bid darkness turn to day, Wipe sorrow’s tears away, Nor let me ever stray From Thee aside.

4. When ends life’s transient dream, When deaths cold, sullen stream Shall o’er me roll; Blest Savior, then, in love, Fear and distrust remove; O bear me safe above, A ransomed soul! Amen.

The Apostles’ Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead; and buried. The third day he arose from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Church Universal, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.

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May God grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

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PSALM 34 Praise for Deliverance from Trouble Of David, when he feigned madness before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away.

1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. 3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. 4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5Look to him, and be radiant; so youra faces shall never be ashamed.

6This poor soul cried, and was heard by the LORD, and was saved from every trouble. 7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. 8O taste and see that the LORD is good; happy are those who take refuge in him. 9O fear the LORD, you his holy ones, for those who fear him have no want. 10The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Summary Of The Decalogue The Congregation, Rise and Sings:

“From all that dwell below the skies, let the Creator’s praise arise; let the Redeemer’s name be sung, through every land by every tongue.”

The Minister Says:

Hear what Christ our Saviour saith, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all my mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

THE GLORIA PATRI The Congregation, Rise and Sings:

“Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.”

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As we celebrate All Saints Day, a time when the church remembers the faithfulness of generations before, it is ironic that we explore a Biblical text showing King David at a moment in which he does not appear very saintly.

David is on the run from King Saul as detailed in 1st Samuel 21:10–15 he attempts to hide anonymously in the camp of a rival King. However, being the slayer of Goliath and King Saul’s most successful warrior, his cover is easily blown. Facing certain death, from the rival King David results in acting like a madman, carrying on about God, writing on walls, he even let spittle run down his beard to sell his contrived state. Afraid of a possible trap the King orders David out of his camp, certain death is averted.

David knows that his unsightly behavior was a sign of the Lord’s protection. Psalm 34 is David’s celebration and a guide for how we should worship the Lord.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS REGARDING HOW WE SHOULD WORSHIP FROM PSALM 34

BLESS THE LORD AT ALL TIMES

Our worship is not limited by place, space or time.

BRAG ABOUT THE LORD

Modesty about the Lord should not be part of our worship.

Remain humble while you brag about the lord.

SEEK AFTER THE LORD

Our worship includes seeking after the Lord in study, in fellowship, in nature, in everything.

Sermon Notes

#364 My Hope Is Built Edward Mote/William B. Bradbury 1. My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

Refrain On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.

2. When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil.

Refrain On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.

3. His oath, His covenant, His blood Support me in the whelming flood; When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my home and stay.

Refrain On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.

4. When He shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in Him be found! Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before that throne!

Refrain On Christ, the solid rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand.

Holy Communion The Call to Communion to be made by the Minister

You that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbor, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways, draw near in your seats with faith and take the holy sacrament to your comfort, and make your humble confession to Almighty God. The General Confession to be made by the Minister and people

Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things, judge of all people ,we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by thought, word, and deed against your divine majesty, provoking most justly your wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; the remembrance of them is grievous unto us. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful God for your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake; forgive us all that is past, and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honor and glory of your name, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Prayer of Consecration to be made by the Minister

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who of your tender mercy did give your only son, Jesus Christ, to suffer death on the cross for our redemption, who made there by his oblation of himself, once offered, a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world; and did institute and in his holy gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again; hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech you, and grant that we receiving these your creatures of bread and wine, according to your son, our Saviour Jesus Christ’s holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood; who in the same night that he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, , and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take, eat this is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me.’ (The Minster says take, and eat the bread, the body of our Savor Jesus.) Likewise after supper he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying, ‘Drink all of it, for this is my blood of New Testament, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins; do this, as often as you shall drink it, in remembrance of me. (The Minster says take, and drink from the cup, the blood of our Savor Jesus Christ.) Amen.’

The Lord’s Prayer To be made by the Minister and people

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

#321 Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross Fanny J. Crosby/William H. Doane

Jesus, keep me near the cross; There a precious fountain, Free to all, a healing stream, Flows from Calvary’s mountain.

Refrain: In the cross, in the cross, Be my glory ever, Till my raptured soul shall find Rest beyond the river.

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Hazel Rollins O’Leary

Black History Moment Hazel Rollins O’Leary is an attorney, prosecutor, and business executive. In 1993 she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to become the seventh United States Secretary of Energy and the first African American woman to serve in that office.

In 2004, she was named President of her alma mater Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee where she serviced until 2012.

As Energy Secretary, O’Leary established the Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence Professorship in Environmental Disciplines which benefited nine historically black colleges and universities.

Under O'Leary's leadership, Fisk enrollment increased, and its crippling budget deficit was slashed.

O’Leary was born in Newport News, Virginia and was raised by her stepmother. She graduated from Fisk Phi Beta Kappa in 1959, at the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement. She went on to obtain her J.D. from Rutgers University Law School in 1966. At 87, Secretary O’Leary lives in Hilton Head, S.C.

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