Worship Preparation - June 8, 2025
Read the sermon text: 1 Peter 4:7-11
Read the sermon summary: In our passage this Sunday, we will consider how our love for God's glory directly informs and impacts our love for one another, God's people. Each of the three "one-another" commands we will study (love one another, be hospitable to one another, serve one another) should ultimately be motivated by the love which God has displayed toward us in Christ and be empowered by God's love which "has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us" (Romans 5:5). We will also consider the importance of the statement, "The end of all things is at hand," in verse 7, and how our hope in the return of Christ gives shape to the way in which live as the resurrected Body of Christ. In preparation for the sermon, think through the following questions: What does it mean that "love covers a multitude of sins" (4:8)? How does understanding our talents and abilities as gifts of "God's varied grace" (4:10) affect the way we serve one another? What is the correlation between our love for God's glory and our love for one another?
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Hymn Of Heaven
Verse 1
How I long to breathe the air of Heaven
Where pain is gone and mercy fills the streets
To look upon the one who bled to save me
And walk with Him for all eternity
Chorus 1
There will be a day
When all will bow before Him
There will be a day
When death will be no more
Standing face to face
With He who died and rose again
Holy holy is the Lord
Verse 2
And ev'ry prayer we prayed in desperation
The songs of faith
We sang through doubt and fear
In the end we’ll see that it was worth it
When He returns to wipe away our tears
Verse 3
And on that day we join the resurrection
And stand beside the heroes of the faith
With one voice a thousand generations
Sing worthy is the Lamb who was slain
Forever He shall reign
Chorus 2
So let it be today
We shout the hymn of Heaven
With angels and the Saints
We raise a mighty roar
Glory to our God
Who gave us life beyond the grave
Holy holy is the Lord
Holy holy is the Lord
Holy holy is the Lord
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