Lasting Things

Series: Lasting Things: A Series in Hebrews

Lasting Things

April 18, 2021 | Mike Stancak

Passage: Hebrews 12:18-29

Hebrews is nearing its ending as the author puts before us the paths of life and death.  All things are passing away under the judgment of God, but the lasting things in Christ will remain.  Christians take heed that only those things redeemed and gathered up in Christ will remain.  We look not to the perishable things but to the unshakeable kingdom stored up for us in Christ.


TCC Order of Worship, 04.18.21

WELCOME 

CALL TO WORSHIP

 

Build Your Kingdom Here 

by Rend Collective Experiment

 

Verse 1

Come set Your rule and reign

In our hearts again

Increase in us we pray

Unveil why we're made

Come set our hearts ablaze with hope 

Like wildfire in our very souls

Holy Spirit come invade us now 

We are Your church

We need Your pow'r in us

 

Verse 2

We seek Your kingdom first

We hunger and we thirst

Refuse to waste our lives

For You're our joy and prize

To see the captives' hearts released

The hurt the sick the poor at peace

We lay down our lives for heaven's cause 

We are Your church

We pray revive this earth

 

Chorus

Build Your kingdom here

Let the darkness fear

Show Your mighty hand

Heal our streets and land

Set Your church on fire

Win this nation back

Change the atmosphere

Build Your kingdom here we pray

 

Verse 3

Unleash Your kingdom's pow'r 

Reaching the near and far

No force of hell can stop

Your beauty changing hearts

You made us for much more than this 

Awake the kingdom seed in us

Fill us with the strength and love of Christ 

We are Your church

We pray revive this earth

King of Love

By IAm They

 

Verse 1 

The King of Love my Shepherd is 

whose goodness faileth never

I nothing lack if I am His and He is mine forever

And He is mine forever

Where streams of living water flow 

my ransomed soul He leadeth

And where the verdant pastures grow with food celestial feedeth

 

Chorus

Never failing Ruler of my heart

Everlasting Lover of my soul

On the mountain high or in the valley low

The King of Love my Shepherd is

The King of Love my Shepherd is

 

Verse 2

Lost and foolish off I strayed 

but yet in love He sought me

And on His shoulder gently laid 

and home rejoicing brought me

In death's dark veil I fear no ill 

with Thee dear Lord beside me

Thy rod and staff my comfort still, 

Thy cross before to guide me

 

Bridge

Oh Hallelujah Hallelujah

Oh Hallelujah Hallelujah

 

Verse 5

And so through all the length of days 

Thy goodness faileth never

Good Shepherd may I sing Your praise 

Within Your house forever

Within Your house forever

 

SERMON

The Sower’s Song/Christ Is Risen

By Andrew Peterson and by Matt Maher

 

Verse 1

Oh God, I am furrowed like the field, torn open like the dirt

And I know that to be healed that I must be broken first

I am aching for the yield that You will harvest from this hurt

 

Chorus 

Abide in me, let these branches bear You fruit

Abide in me, Lord, as I abide in You

 

Verse 2

So I kneel at the bright edge of the garden, 

at the golden edge of dawn

At the glowing edge of spring when the winter's edge is gone

And I can see the color green, I can hear the Sower's song

 

Chorus 2

Abide in me, let these branches bear You fruit 

Abide in me, Lord, let Your Word take root 

Remove in me the branch that bears no fruit 

Move in me, Lord, as I abide in You

 

Bridge

As the rain and the snow fall down from the sky

And they don't return, but they water the earth

And they bring forth life

Giving seed to the sower and bread for the hunger

So shall the Word of the Lord be with a sound like thunder

And it will not return it will not return void

We shall be led in peace, and go out with joy

And the hills before us will raise their voices

And the trees of the field will clap their hands as the land re - joices

And instead of the thorn now the cypress towers

And instead of the brier the myrtle blooms with a thousand flowers

And it will make a Name make a Name for our God

A sign everlasting, that will never be cut off

As the earth brings forth sprouts from the seed

What is sown in the garden grows into a mighty tree

So the Lord plants justice justice and praise

To rise before the nations until the end of days

As the rain and the snow fall down from the sky

And they don't return, but they water the earth

And they bring forth life

Giving seed to the sower and bread for the hunger

So shall the Word of the Lord be with a sound like thunder 

And it will not return it will not return void

And it will not return it will not return void

And it will not return it will not return void

We shall be led in peace, and go out with joy

 

Verse 1

Let no one caught in sin remain

Inside the lie of inward shame

But fix our eyes upon the cross

And run to Him who showed great love And bled for us

Freely You’ve bled for us

 

Chorus

Christ is risen from the dead 

Trampling over death by death 

Come awake, come awake 

Come and rise up from the grave 

Christ is risen from the dead

We are one with Him again 

Come awake, come awake 

Come and rise up from the grave

 

Verse 2

Beneath the weight of all our sin

You bowed to none but heaven’s will 

No scheme of hell, no scoffer's crown 

No burden great can hold You down

In strength You reign

Forever let Your church proclaim

 

Bridge

O death, where is your sting?

O hell, where is your victory?

O church, come stand in the light

The glory of God has defeated the night

O death, where is your sting?

O hell, where is your victory?

O church, come stand in the light

Our God is not dead He's alive! He's alive

 

COMMUNION

What A Beautiful Name

Hillsong Worship

Verse 1

You were the Word at the beginning

One with God the Lord Most High

Your hidden glory in creation

Now revealed in You our Christ

Chorus 1

What a beautiful Name it is 

what a beautiful Name it is

The Name of Jesus Christ my King

What a beautiful Name it is nothing compares to this

What a beautiful Name it is the Name of Jesus

Verse 2

You could have had heaven without us

But, Jesus You brought heaven down

My sin was great Your love was greater

What could separate us now

Chorus 2

What a wonderful Name it is 

what a wonderful Name it is

The Name of Jesus Christ my King

What a wonderful Name it is nothing compares to this

What a wonderful Name it is the Name of Jesus

What a wonderful Name it is the Name of Jesus

Bridge

Death could not hold You, the veil tore before You

You silence the boast of sin and grave

The heavens are roaring the praise of Your glory

For You are raised to life again

You have no rival You have no equal

Now and forever God You reign

Yours is the kingdom Yours is the glory

Yours is the Name above all names

Chorus 3

What a powerful Name it is what a powerful Name it is

The Name of Jesus Christ my King

What a powerful Name it is nothing can stand against

What a powerful Name it is the Name of Jesus

Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me

By CityAlight

Verse 1

What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer

There is no more for heaven now to give

He is my joy, my righteousness, and freedom

My steadfast love, my deep and boundless peace

To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus

For my life is wholly bound to his

Oh how strange and divine, I can sing: all is mine!

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

Verse 2

The night is dark but I am not forsaken

For by my side, the Saviour He will stay

I labour on in weakness and rejoicing

For in my need, His power is displayed

To this I hold, my Shepherd will defend me

Through the deepest valley He will lead

Oh the night has been won, and I shall overcome!

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

Verse 3

No fate I dread, I know I am forgiven

The future sure, the price it has been paid

For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon

And He was raised to overthrow the grave

To this I hold, my sin has been defeated

Jesus now and ever is my plea

Oh the chains are released, I can sing: I am free!

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

Verse 4

With every breath I long to follow Jesus

For He has said that He will bring me home

And day by day I know He will renew me

Until I stand with joy before the throne

To this I hold, my hope is only Jesus

All the glory evermore to Him

When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat:

Yet not I, but through Christ in me

BENEDICTION

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