March 20, 2012

Opening Hymns:
We Bow Down (Red 97)

Let the Redeemed (Red 98)

Scripture Reading:
Psalm 51: 1-5

Message:
The last thing I think about when I see a baby is sin. Being “sinful at birth” has never sat well with me. However, each of us will sin throughout our life… so perhaps this is talking about the inevitable. Maybe it is because of Adam and Eve’s sin that each of us is born of sin from then on. Regardless of when sin enters our life, rest assured we are all forgiving.

While it is unpleasant to think of a baby having sin, our God shows us a new picture. To think of ourselves washed clean and sin free as that infant. We have been forgiven. God has heard our cry out and he will remember our sins no more.

Many video games have a reset button in which you can start over knowledgeable about what you have failed at before. God to grants us a similar reset button. All our failures are forgiven in God’s sight. We may not be able to live the day over again so that we don’t sin… but we will be able to live in God’s eyes as if we haven’t sinned. He has given us an extra life. We can continue on with the knowledge of how to live as God lives… and we can try to sin no more.

Time of Prayer
Lord, thank You for Your unfailing love. Thank You for forgiveness and for Your love and mercy. Thanks for extra lives. Thank you for the comfort of Your Word. Amen

The Lord’s Prayer

Closing Hymn
We Believe (Red 231)

May the Lord bless you and keep you: May the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace." Amen.

Go in peace, serve the Lord
Thanks be to God