Guilty Before God

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January 11, 2026

Deuteronomy 5:1-225:1 And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the rules that I speak in your hearing today, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them. 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 Not with our fathers did the LORD make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today. 4 The LORD spoke with you face to face at the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, 5 while I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD. For you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up into the mountain. He said:
6 “‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
7 “‘You shall have no other gods before me.
8 “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11 “‘You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
12 “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
16 “‘Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
17 “‘You shall not murder.
18 “‘And you shall not commit adultery.
19 “‘And you shall not steal.
20 “‘And you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
21 “‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’
22 “These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain out of the midst of the fire, the cloud, and the thick darkness, with a loud voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
(ESV)Matthew 22:34-4034 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
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Morning Worship Service
January 11, 2026
Pastor Stan Way

*Call to Worship – Psalm 100
*Invocation – Pastor Stan Way
*God’s Greeting
*Song of Praise
– My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less 459
*Confession of Faith – The Apostles’ Creed
Reading of the Law – Galatians 5:16-21
Prayer of Confession
Assurance of Pardon – Romans 8:1-4
Offering & Song of Thanks
– Psalm 150C
Old Testament Reading – Isaiah 53
Pastoral Prayer
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 2
*Song of Preparation
– In Christ Alone 265
Scripture Reading – Ephesians 3:1-6
Sermon – A Prisoner for Christ
The Lord’s Supper/Song
– How Deep the Father’s Love for Us 351
*Doxology – Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow
*Benediction

 

Evening Worship Service
January 11, 2026
Pastor Stan Way

*Call to Worship – Psalm 99:1-3
*Invocation – Pastor Stan Way
*God’s Greeting
*Songs of Praise
– O Worship the King 219
– Speak, O Lord 172
Heidelberg Catechism – Lord’s Day 2
Pastoral Prayer
Scripture Reading
– Deuteronomy 5:1-22 & Matthew 22:34-40
Sermon – Guilty Before God
*Song – Doxology
*Benediction