Brothers and Sisters,

On Sunday, we will continue in Revelation 5 to consider what John saw in heaven. He is reporting that while there is much trouble in the world, heaven is untroubled. God is on His throne. Christ is on His throne. God is charting the course of history. This history is recorded on a scroll written on both sides. It contains God’s decrees for the operation of the world. And, there is no one worthy to open the scroll and unleash the plan except Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. These verses help us understand the world, our jobs, governments, families and churches. In chapter 5, Christ the lion and lamb of God is the center of attention. He is powerful, and vanquishes all who stand in his way, but He is also a humble sacrificial lamb. The Bible gives us no other way of salvation, except by the blood of the lamb slain from before the foundation of the world.

Prayer will be held at the Brown’s Barn

On Sunday afternoon, we will be reading the first half of Revelation out loud. Several of the men of Hope will be reading.

See you at Family Camp…

The Church’s One Foundation

   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECY2IIeRg8)

Behold the Lamb

Man of Sorrows 

    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ZhAdqU2r4)

Wonderful, Merciful Savior

    (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TdK2de79A)

Before the Throne of God 

     (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw3VmfQqh-8)

The Church’s One Foundation

The Church’s one foundation 

Is Jesus Christ her Lord

She is His new creation 

By water and the Word

From heav’n He came and sought her 

To be His holy bride

With His own blood He bought her

And for her life He died

Elect from every nation 

Yet one o’er all the earth

Her charter of salvation: 

One Lord, one faith, one birth

One holy Name she blesses, 

Partakes one holy food

And to one hope she presses 

With every grace endued

‘Mid toil and tribulation

And tumult of her war

She waits the consummation 

Of peace forevermore

Till with the vision glorious 

Her longing eyes are blessed

And the great Church victorious 

Shall be the Church at rest

Yet she on earth hath union

With God the Three in One,

And mystic sweet communion

With those whose rest is won,

O happy ones and holy!

Lord, give us grace that we

Like them, the meek and lowly,

On high may dwell with Thee

Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs

(to the tune of Am I a Soldier of the Cross)

Come, let us join our cheerful songs

with angels round the throne;

ten thousand thousand are their tongues,

but all their joys are one.

‘Worthy the Lamb that died,’ they cry,

‘to be exalted thus’;

‘Worthy the Lamb,’ our lips reply,

‘for He was slain for us.’

Jesus is worthy to receive

honor and pow’r divine;

and blessings, more than we can give,

be, Lord, forever Thine.

Let all that dwell above the sky,

and air, and earth, and seas,

conspire to lift Thy glories high,

and speak Thine endless praise.

The whole creation joins in one

to bless the sacred Name

of Him who sits upon the throne,

and to adore the Lamb.

Man of Sorrows 

Man of Sorrows! what a name

For the Son of God, who came

Ruined sinners to reclaim:

Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude,

In my place condemned He stood,

Sealed my pardon with His blood:

Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Guilty, vile, and helpless, we;

Spotless Lamb of God was He;

Full atonement! can it be?

Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Lifted up was He to die,

“It is finished!” was His cry:

Now in heav’n exalted high:

Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

When He comes, our glorious King,

All His ransomed home to bring,

Then anew this song we’ll sing:

Hallelujah! what a Saviour!

Wonderful, Merciful Savior

Wonderful, merciful Savior

Precious Redeemer and Friend

Who would have thought that a Lamb could

Rescue the souls of men

Oh, You rescue the souls of men

Counselor, Comforter, Keeper

Spirit we long to embrace

You offer hope when our hearts have

Hopelessly lost our way

Oh, we’ve hopelessly lost the way

  You are the One that we praise

  You are the One we adore

  You give the healing and grace

  Our hearts always hunger for

  Oh, our hearts always hunger for

Almighty, infinite Father

Faithfully loving Your own

Here in our weakness You find us

Falling before Your throne

Oh, we’re falling before Your throne 

  You are the One that we praise

  You are the One we adore

  You give the healing and grace

  Our hearts always hunger for

  Oh, our hearts always hunger for

Before the Throne of God

Before the throne of God above

I have a strong and perfect plea

A great High Priest whose name is Love

Who ever lives and pleads for me

My name is graven on His hands

My name is written on His heart

I know that while in heav’n He stands

No tongue can bid me thence depart

No tongue can bid me thence depart

When Satan tempts me to despair

And tells me of the guilt within

Upward I look and see Him there

Who made an end of all my sin

Because the sinless Savior died

My sinful soul is counted free

For God the just is satisfied

To look on Him and pardon me

To look on Him and pardon me

Behold Him there, the risen Lamb

My perfect spotless righteousness

The great unchangeable I Am

The King of glory and of grace

One with Himself I cannot die

My soul is purchased by His blood

My life is hid with Christ on high

With Christ my Savior and my God

With Christ my Savior and my God