ANNOUNCEMENTS

THE LORD’S SUPPER – MARCH 14 We will be observing the Lord’s Supper together during the Sunday morning service next week, March 14.

BAPTISM – MARCH 21 We will be observing the ordinance of Christian Baptism together as a church on Sunday, March 21. If you would like to speak to a pastor about baptism, email info@christchurchwc.org.

SUNDAY NIGHT THEOLOGY – MARCH 28 Our next SNT, “Venture All For God: How A 17th Century Pastor Helps 21st Century Christians Live the Christian Life” will be taught by Dr. Phil Newton of South Woods Baptist Church in Memphis, TN on Sunday, March 28, at 5 PM. You can find more information at christchurchwc.org/sunday-night-theology/.

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE – APRIL 2 On Friday, April 2, 2021, at 5 PM, we will be hosting our annual Good Friday service. This is a shorter, more meditative service focusing on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ.

EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE– APRIL 4 At 8 AM on Sunday, April 4, 2021, we will host a sunrise service on the steps of the historic Chester County Courthouse in downtown West Chester. Masks & social distancing will be required for all attendees.

EASTER MORNING SERVICE – APRIL 4 On Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, we will hold our regular Sunday morning service at 10 AM. 200 SOUTH CHURCH STREET

WEST CHESTER, PA 19382 info@christchurchwc.org | (610) 433-9332

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Service of Divine worship on the morning of

March 7, 2021

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Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

VERSE 1 What a fellowship! What a joy divine! Leaning on the everlasting arms What a blessedness! What a peace is mine! Leaning on the everlasting arms REFRAIN Leaning, leaning; safe and secure from all alarms Leaning, leaning; leaning on the everlasting arms VERSE 2 O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, Leaning on the everlasting arms O how bright the path grows from day to day, Leaning on the everlasting arms VERSE 3 What have I to dread? What have I to fear? Leaning on the everlasting arms I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, Leaning on the everlasting arms

CCLI Song #31779 Words by Elisha Albright Hoffman | Music by Anthony J. Showalter

© Public Domain

Preparation Song

Abide With Me

Welcome & Announcements

Call To Worship Revelation 19:6-7

Agnus Dei O Great God

Confession & Assurance

O Fount Of Love

Scripture Reading Romans 4:13-5:12

Once For All

Confessional Reading NHC Article V - Justification

Pastoral Prayer

Scripture Reading Psalm 88

Offertory Prayer The Doxology

Whate’er My God Ordains Is Right

Sermon Mark 14:53-65

Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

Benediction 1 Timothy 6:15b-16

Preacher: Dr. Raymond Johnson Presiding Minister: Josh Miller

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Abide With Me VERSE 1 Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

VERSE 2 Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; O Thou who changest not, abide with me.

VERSE 3 I need Thy presence every passing hour. What but Thy grace can foil the tempter's power? Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be? Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

VERSE 4 I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless; Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness. Where is death's sting? Where, grave, thy victory? I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

VERSE 5 Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies. Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee; In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

CCLI Song # 21332 | Words by & Music by Robert Lowry © Public Domain

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Sermon Notes THIS TOWN ISN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US:

JESUS’ TRIAL MARK 14:53-65 | DR. RAYMOND JOHNSON

Agnus Dei VERSE 1 Alleluia! Alleluia! For the Lord God Almighty reigns Alleluia! Alleluia! For the Lord God Almighty reigns Alleluia! CHORUS (You are) Holy! Holy Are You, Lord God Almighty! Worthy is the Lamb! Worthy is the Lamb! You are holy! Holy Are You, Lord God Almighty! Worthy is the Lamb Worthy is the Lamb Amen

CCLI Song # 626713 Words & Music by Michael W. Smith

© Public Domain

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Sermon Notes THIS TOWN ISN’T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US:

JESUS’ TRIAL MARK 14:53-65 | DR. RAYMOND JOHNSON

The Doxology Praise God from whom all blessings flow Praise Him, all creatures here below Praise Him above, ye heavenly host Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost Amen

Whate’er My God Ordains Is Right

VERSE 1 Whate'er my God ordains is right; His holy will abideth I will be still whate'er He does and follow where He guideth He is my God, though dark my road; He holds me that I shall not fall And so to Him I leave it all VERSE 2 Whate'er my God ordains is right; He never will deceive me He leads me by the proper path; I know He will not leave me I take, content, what He has sent; His hand can turn my griefs away And patiently I wait His day VERSE 3 Whate'er my God ordains is right; Though now this cup in drinking May bitter seem to my faint heart, I take it all unshrinking My God is true, each morn anew; sweet comfort yet shall fill my heart And pain and sorrow shall depart VERSE 4 Whate'er my God ordains is right; here shall my stand be taken Though sorrow, need, or death be mine, yet I am not forsaken My Father's care is round me there; He holds me that I shall not fall And so to Him I leave it all

CCLI Song # 7106792 Words by Samuel Rodigast (Trans. Catherine Winkworth) | Music by Matt Merker & Keith Getty

© 2018 Getty Music Publishing | Matthew Merker Music

O Great God VERSE 1 O great God of highest heaven Occupy my lowly heart Own it all and reign supreme Conquer every rebel power Let no vice or sin remain That resists Your holy war You have loved and purchased me Make me Yours forevermore VERSE 2 I was blinded by my sin Had no ears to hear Your voice Did not know Your love within Had no taste for heaven’s joys Then Your Spirit gave me life Opened up Your Word to me Through the gospel of Your Son Gave me endless hope and peace VERSE 3 Help me now to live a life That’s dependent on Your grace Keep my heart and guard my soul From the evils that I face You are worthy to be praised With my every thought and deed O great God of highest heaven Glorify Your Name through me

CCLI Song # 4804015

Music and words by Bob Kauflin (Based on The Valley of Vision prayer "Regeneration") © 2006 Sovereign Grace Praise

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Scripture Reading O Lord, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry! For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you. Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But I, O Lord, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. O Lord, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness. PSALM 88

Confession & Assurance Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

GALATIANS 5:19-21 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

GALATIANS 2:20

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Confessional Reading

We believe the great gospel blessing that Christ secures to those who believe in him is justification. Justification includes the pardon of sin, righteous standing before God and his people, and the promise of eternal life founded on principles of righteousness. It is not given because of any works of righteousness we have done but only through faith in the Redeemer’s blood. By virtue of this faith his perfect righteousness is freely imputed to us by God. Justification immediately brings us into a state of most blessed peace and favor with God and secures every other blessing we need for time and eternity.

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CONFESSION OF FAITH

ARTICLE V - JUSTIFICATION

O Fount Of Love

VERSE 1 O fount of love divine that flows From my Savior's bleeding side! Where sinners trade their filthy rags For His righteousness applied Mercy cleansing ev'ry stain Now rushing o'er us like a flood There the wretch and vilest ones Stand adopted through His blood VERSE 2 O mount of grace, to Thee we cling, From the law hath set us free Once and for all on Calv'ry's hill Love and justice shall agree Praise the Lord! The price is paid! The curse defeated by the Lamb We, who once were slaves by birth, Sons and daughters now we stand VERSE 3 O well of joy is mine to drink For my Lord has conquered death Victorious forevermore The ancient foe is laid to rest Hallelujah! Christ is King! Alive and reigning on the throne Our tongues employed with hymns of praise, “Glory be to God alone!”

CCLI Song # 5760323

Words & Music by Matt Boswell & Matt Papa © 2010 Curb Dayspring Music | Love Your Enemies Publishing

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Scripture Reading For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of

the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression.

That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.” He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

ROMANS 4:13-5:12

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Once For All

VERSE 1

Free from the law—oh happy condition! Jesus hath bled, and there is remission Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall Grace has redeemed us once for all CHORUS

Once for all; oh sinner, receive it Once for all; oh brother, believe! Cling to the cross; your burden will fall Christ has redeemed us once for all VERSE 2

Now we are free; there's no condemnation Jesus provides a perfect salvation “Come unto Me.” Oh, hear His sweet call! Come and He saves us once for all VERSE 3 “Children of God!”—Oh, glorious calling! Surely His grace will keep us from falling Passing from death to life at His call Blessed salvation once for all

CCLI Song # 5006544 Words by Philip Paul Bliss | Music by James Koerts

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