Pastor Joel E. Wood 
Paul Meets Jesus 
Acts 9:1-19 
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Introit  

GREETING & CALL TO WORSHIP – Psalm 1:8-13
Leader:  I love you, O LORD, my strength.
People: The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Leader: I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

PRAYER OF ADORATION, ASSISTANCE, & BLESSING

Trinity Hymnal #469 “How Sweet and Awesome Is the Place” 
How sweet and awesome is the place
with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays
the choicest of her stores.

While all our hearts and all our songs
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

"Why was I made to hear your voice,
and enter while there's room,
when thousands make a wretched choice,
and rather starve than come?"

'Twas the same love that spread the feast
that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste,
and perished in our sin.

Pity the nations, O our God,
constrain the earth to come;
send your victorious Word abroad,
and bring the strangers home.

We long to see your churches full,
that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul,
sing your redeeming grace.

REFLECTION ON GOD’S LAW   from Exodus 20:1-17 & N.T. corollaries, ESV

Leader: Honor your father and your mother.
People: Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (Eph. 6:1)

Leader: You shall not murder.
People: Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, 
and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1 Jn. 3:15)

Leader: You shall not commit adultery.
People: Everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent 
has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Mt. 5:28)

Leader: You shall not steal.
People: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.  
Do your work quietly and earn your own living. (2 Th. 3:10,12)

Leader: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
People: Having put away falsehood, 
let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor. (Eph. 4:25)

Leader: You shall not covet anything that is your neighbor's.
People: For the whole law is fulfilled in one word:  "You shall love your 
neighbor as yourself." (Gal. 5:14)

SILENT PRAYER OF CONFESSION
ASSURANCE OF PARDON – John 8:34-36

Song of Response “ Across the Lands”
You're the Word of God the Father
From before the world began
Ev'ry star and ev'ry planet
Has been fashioned by Your hand
All creation holds together
By the power of Your voice
Let the skies declare Your glory
Let the land and seas rejoice

Chorus
You're the author of creation
You're the Lord of ev'ry man
And Your cry of love rings out
Across the lands

Yet You left the gaze of angels
Came to seek and save the lost
And exchanged the joy of heaven
For the anguish of a cross
With a prayer You fed the hungry
With a word You stilled the sea
Yet how silently You suffered
That the guilty may go free [Chorus]

With a shout You rose victorious
Wresting victory from the grave
And ascended into heaven
Leading captives in Your wake
Now You stand before the Father
Interceding for Your own
From each tribe and tongue and nation
You are leading sinners home [Chorus]

Keith Getty, Stuart Townend
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PRAYER OF THE CHURCH 

Psalm 121:1-8 “I Lift My Eyes to the Hills” (tune: Trinity Hymnal #128)
I life my eyes up to the hills,
From where shall come my aid?
My help comes from the Lord above,
Who heav’n and earth has made.

He will not let your foot be moved;
Your keeper will not sleep.
Behold, he slumbers not, nor sleeps,
For he will Isr’el keep.
At your right hand the Lord, your keeper,
Is your constant shade.
The moon shall strike you not by night,
Nor sun by light of day.

The Lord will keep you from all harm;
He keeps your life secure.
Your going out and coming in,
The Lord keeps ever more.

GOD’S WORD READ – Acts 9:19
GOD’S WORD PREACHED – “Paul Meets Jesus” by Pastor Joel E. Wood
PRAYER OF APPLICATION & THE LORD’S PRAYER

Trinity Hymnal #82  “My Song Is Love Unknown” 
My song is love unknown,
my Savior’s love to me,
love to the loveless shown,
that they might lovely be.
O who am I,
that for my sake
my Lord should take
frail flesh and die?

He came from his blest throne,
salvation to bestow;
but men cared not, and none
the longed-for Christ would know.
But oh, my Friend,
my Friend indeed,
who at my need
his life did spend!

Sometimes they strew his way,
and his sweet praises sing;
resounding all the day
hosannas to their King.
Then “Crucify!”
is all their breath,
and for his death
they thirst and cry.

Why, what hath my Lord done?
What makes this rage and spite?
He made the lame to run,
he gave the blind their sight.
Sweet injuries!
Yet all his deeds
their hatred feeds;
they 'gainst him rise.

They rise, and needs will have
my dear Lord made away;
a murderer they save,
the Prince of Life they slay.
Yet willing he
to suff'ring goes,
that he his foes
from thence might free.

In life, no house, no home
my Lord on earth might have;
in death, no friendly tomb
but what a stranger gave.
What may I say?
Heav'n was his home,
but mine the tomb
wherein he lay.

Here might I stay and sing,
no story so divine;
never was love, dear King,
never was grief like thine.
This is my Friend,
in whose sweet praise
I all my days
could gladly spend.

Trinity Hymnal p. 845  “Apostles’ Creed” 
WORDS OF INSTITUTION & WARNING 
Minister: The Lord be with you;
People: And also with you.

Minister: Lift up your hearts;
People: We lift them up to the Lord.

Minister: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God;
People: It is right to give him thanks and praise.

SERVING OF THE SUPPER

Song “Merciful God” 
Merciful God O abounding in love
Faithful to all who draw near You
Hearing the cries of the humble in heart
Showing the cross they may cling to
Helpless I come broken in sin
Found at the feet of Your mercy
Father forgive
May my sin be remembered no more

Merciful God O abounding in love
Faithful through times we have failed You
Selfish in thought and uncaring in deed
Foolish in word and ungrateful
Spirit of God conquer our hearts
With love that flows from forgiveness
Cause us to yield
And return to the mercy of God

Merciful God O abounding in love
Faithful to keep us from falling
Guiding our ways with Your fatherly heart
Growing our faith with each testing
God speed the day struggles will end
Faultless we'll gaze on Your glory
Then we will stand
Overwhelmed by the mercy of God

Keith Getty, Kristyn Getty, Stuart Townend
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Trinity Hymnal #731: “Doxology” 

THE BENEDICTION