Worship Devotional LXXIII
Originally posted to the Facebook group on 5/15/2021.
Worship Devotional for 5/16/21
Last week on Mother's Day we sang about God's love for us and the blessings He has given us, and how He is able to sovereignly strengthen and help us as we live our earthly lives for His glory. The hope and life and peace that we have in Him are only made possible for us by the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ, who has saved us from our sins.
In the coming weeks, as we observe Pentecost Sunday, Trinity Sunday, and Father's Day, we will be focusing our attention on the triune identity of God and our identity in Him. We begin this week with praising the Son, Jesus Christ, who is our Lord and Savior, our God and King.
Hebrews 1:1-3:
"Long ago God spoke to the fathers by the prophets at different times and in different ways. In these last days, He has spoken to us by His Son. God has appointed Him heir of all things and made the universe through Him. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high."
John 3:16-18:
"For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God."
1 John 5:1-13:
"Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Messiah has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of Him. This is how we know that we love God's children when we love God and obey His commands. For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden, because whatever has been born of God conquers the world. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith. And who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
Jesus Christ — He is the One who came by water and blood, not by water only, but by water and by blood. And the Spirit is the One who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and these three are in agreement. If we accept the testimony of men, God's testimony is greater, because it is God's testimony that He has given about His Son. (The one who believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony God has given about His Son.) And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
The one who has the Son has life. The one who doesn't have the Son of God does not have life. I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life."
Colossians 1:11-14:
"May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled to to share in the saints inheritance in the light. He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. We have redemption, the forgiveness of sins, in Him."
Hebrews 12:1-2:
"Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, keeping our eyes on Jesus, the source and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that lay before Him endured a cross and despised the shame and has sat down at the right hand of God's throne."
Songs:
1) Christ Be Magnified by Cody Carnes
Colossians 1:15-20:
"He is the image of invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For everything was created by Him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and by Him all things hold together. He is also the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might come to have first place in everything. For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile everything to Himself by making peace through the blood of His cross — whether things on earth or things in heaven."
1 Corinthians 8:5-6:
"For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth — as there are many 'gods' and many 'lords' — yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from Him, and we exist for Him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through Him, and we exist through Him."
The purpose of all of creation, the answer for every mystery, the point of all that exists — is Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God. From before time began, God planned to make Him the One through whom mankind would be saved. In the ages leading up to His arrival on the earth, God sent prophets to speak His word and declare His coming, prophesying things that He would do before they happened. While He walked the earth, He lived a blameless and sinless life, healing the sick and diseased and preaching and teaching the truth of God. He fulfilled every prophecy and completed God's plan for our salvation, so that now all who believe in Him are saved and given eternal life. One day He will return and the world as we know it will end. All things will be made new. Jesus is the hope not only for humanity, but for all creation. He is worthy of all praise and glory and honor. Therefore, let us magnify Him with everything in our lives, surrendering fully to His majesty, giving Him glory in everything we say and do.
2) Jesus Son Of God by Chris Tomlin
We have come to know God through faith in His Son. By believing in His death and resurrection, we have salvation and life. May His name be lifted higher and glorified above everything else in our lives as we sing His praise and live for His glory.
John 16:33:
"I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. You will have suffering in this world. Be courageous! I have conquered the world."
Revelation 4:11:
"Our Lord and God, You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, because You have created all things, and because of Your will they exist and were created."
Revelation 12:10-11:
"Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Messiah have now come, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown out: the one who accuses them before our God day and night. They conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not love their lives in the face of death."
4) Jesus Is The Lord by James Mark Gulley and Robert Fuller
Philippians 2:5-11:
"Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage. Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death — even to death on a cross. For this reason God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow — of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth — and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
Psalm 22:27-31:
"All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord. All the families of the nations will bow down before You, for kingship belongs to the Lord; He rules over the nations. All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down; all those who go down to the dust will kneel before Him — even the one who cannot preserve his life. Their descendants will serve Him; the next generation will be told about the Lord. They will come and tell a people yet to be born about His righteousness — what He has done."
Revelation 1:5b-8:
"To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood, and made us kingdom, priests to His God and Father — the glory and dominion are His forever and ever. Amen.
Look! He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, including those who pierced Him. And all the families of the earth will mourn over Him. This is certain. Amen. 'I am the Alpha and the Omega,' says the Lord God, 'the One who is, who was, and who is coming, the Almighty.'"
Lord, may You be exalted in our lives! We praise You for all that You have done for us, for giving Your life on the cross that we might be saved. We thank You, Jesus, for coming and making a way for us to be set free from sin and from death and instead given eternal life. Let Your name be glorified by our lives!
Theme(s): The Son of God, the Name of Jesus
Scripture references:
Psalms 2, 8, 22, 110
Isaiah 7:14, 9:1-7
Daniel 7:13-14
Hosea 11:1
Matthew 1:18-25, 2:13-5, 3:16-17, 11:25-27, 14:22-33, 16:13-19, 17:1-9, 21:33-46, 27:45-54, 28:18-20
Mark 3:31-35, 9:2-8, 15:33-39
Luke 1:26-35, 2:41-50, 10:21-22
John (esp. 1, 3, 5:16-30, 10:22-39, 14, 16:33, 17:1-5, 20:29-31)
Romans 6:1-11, 8
1 Corinthians 8:6
Galatians 4:1-9
Ephesians 4:14-21
Philippians 2:5-11
Colossians 1:9-23, 2:2-3
1 Timothy 2:5-6
Hebrews 1-2, 3:1-6, 4:14-16, 12:1-2
2 Peter 1:16-19
1 John (esp. 1, 2:18-27, 3:1-10, 4:4 & 7-19, 5)
Revelation 1, 12:10-11