“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”

John 1:14   

Angels We Have Heard on High

Leader: Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!

People: Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,

 

Responsive Call To Worship

Psalm 119

Leader: I will praise you with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous rules.

People: I have stored up your word in my heart,  that I might not sin against you. 

Responsive Call To Worship

Psalm 119

Leader: Blessed are you, O LORD;   teach me your statutes!

People: In the way of your testimonies I delight, as much as in all riches.

 

Responsive Call To Worship

Psalm 119

Leader: This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.

People: Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Responsive Call To Worship

Psalm 119

Leader: Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

All: My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Responsive Call To Worship

Psalm 119

You Are Good Israel Houghton

Jesus Be a Fence

God of love, you call us to love you with all our heart, soul, mind, strength, and our neighbor as ourselves, but we are so weak. We confess that our affections continually turn away from you; from purity to lust, from freedom to slavery, from compassion to indifference. Have mercy on us. Order our lives by your holy Word, and make your commandments the joy of our hearts. Conform us to the image of your loving Son, Jesus, that we may shine before the world to your glory. Amen.  

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Scripture ReadingDeuteronomy 18:13-22

13 You shall be blameless before the LORD your God, 14 for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do this.15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 

16 just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 17 And the LORD said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 

Scripture ReadingDeuteronomy 18:13-22

19 And whoever will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him. 20 But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ 21 And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’— 

Scripture ReadingDeuteronomy 18:13-22

22 when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.

Scripture ReadingDeuteronomy 18:13-22

Acts 3

11 While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s, astounded.

12 ¶ And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? 13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 16 And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.

17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

19 Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.23 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’

24 And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ 26 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.”

“Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’

vs 22

1) Jesus is the prophet promised.

“ And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.” Vs 24

“In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.

Hebrews 1:-3

2) He is the prophet pierced.“But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.” Vs 18

3) He is the prophet powerful.

By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has given this complete healing to him, as you can all see. Vs 16

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, vs 19

Donnie Andrews, Ex-convict devoted his life to setting kids on a better path.

Omar Little, The Wire

“…listen to him in whatever he tells you. vs 22

“Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you.”

Acts 3:22