First Church of Merrimack, NH A Member Congregation of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Founded 1771

June 7, 2020 10:45 am Worship Service

7 Baboosic Lake Road / P.O. Box 507 Merrimack, New Hampshire 03054

603-424-3947 / 603-424-3133 www.firstchurchofmerrimack.org

Rev. Dr. Allen C. Tomlinson, Pastor pastorallen@firstchurchofmerrimack.org

THE ORDER OF MORNING WORSHIP As we enter the Sanctuary, let us be thoughtful of others

who are preparing for Worship by prayer and meditation.

NOW TO GOD THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT BE ASCRIBED EXALTED PRAISES. AMEN

Apostolic Greeting Pastor Allen Tomlinson

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Heart Preparation

Call to Worship (Below) Psalm 34:1-3

“I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul shall make its boast in the LORD; the humble shall hear of it and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt His name together.”

†*Hymn #249 (Page 7) “For the Beauty of the Earth”

*Invocation & the Lord’s Prayer Elder Chris Jennings

*Gloria Patri

Confessional Reading (Below) Larger Catechism 15, 17, 86, 87

Question 15: What is the work of creation? Answer 15: The work of creation is that wherein God did in the beginning, by the word of his power, make of nothing the world, and all things therein, for himself, within the space of six days, and all very good.1

1Genesis 1:1-31; Psalm 33:6, 9; Hebrews 11:3; Revelation 4:11; Romans 11:36

Question 17: How did God create man? Answer 17: After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female;1 formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground,2 and the woman of the rib of the man,3 endued them with living, reasonable, and immortal souls;4

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made them after his own image,5 in knowledge,6 righteousness, and holiness;7 having the law of God written in their hearts,8 and power to fulfill it,9 and dominion over the creatures;10 yet subject to fall.11

1Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:4; 2Genesis 2:7; 3Genesis 2:22; 4Genesis 2:7; Job 35:11; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Matthew 10:28; Luke 23:43; 5Genesis 1:26-27; 6Colossians 3:10; 7Ephesians 4:24; 8Romans 2:14-15; 9Ecclesiastes 7:29; 10Genesis 1:28; Psalm 8:6-8; 11Genesis 2:16-17; 3:6; Ecclesiastes 7:29

Question 86: What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death?

Answer 86: The communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible church enjoy immediately after death, is, in that their souls are then made perfect in holiness,1 and received into the highest heavens,2 where they behold the face of God in light and glory,3 waiting for the full redemption of their bodies,4 which even in death continue united to Christ,5 and rest in their graves as in their beds,6 till at the last day they be again united to their souls.7 Whereas the souls of the wicked are at their death cast into hell, where they remain in torments and utter darkness, and their bodies kept in their graves, as in their prisons, till the resurrection and judgment of the great day.8

1Hebrews 12:23; Acts 7:55, 59; 2II Corinthians 5:1, 6, 8; Philippians 1:23; Acts 3:21; Ephesians 4:10; Luke 23:43; 3I John 3:2; I Corinthians 13:12; 4Romans 8:23; Psalm 16:9; 5I Thessalonians 4:14, 16; 6Isaiah 57:2; 7Job 19:26-27; 8Luke 16:23-24; Acts 1:25; Jude 6-7

Question 87: What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?

Answer 87: We are to believe that at the last day there shall be a general resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust:1 when they that are then found alive shall in a moment be changed; and the selfsame bodies of the dead which were laid in the grave, being then again united to their souls forever, shall be raised up by the power of Christ.2 The bodies of the just, by the Spirit of Christ, and by virtue of his

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resurrection as their head, shall be raised in power, spiritual, incorruptible, and made like to his glorious body;3 and the bodies of the wicked shall be raised up in dishonor by him, as an offended judge.4

1Daniel 12:2; Acts 24:15; 2Job 19:26; I Corinthians 15:51-53; I Thessalonians 4:15-17; John 5:28-29; Romans 8:11; 3I Corinthians 15:21-23, 42-44; Philippians 3:21

*Hymn #410 (Page 12) “Christian Hearts in Love United”

Pastoral Prayer

Old Testament Reading (Below) Genesis 1:26-27; 2:7, 21-22; 2:15-17

1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

2:7And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being…. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

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New Testament Reading (Below) Romans 8:9-11; I Corinthians 15:51-58

8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies [a]through His Spirit who dwells in you.

15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Congregational “Amen!”

Sermon “The Biblical Doctrine of Our Human Bodies and How it Relates to Our ‘Holy Convocations’” Pastor Allen Tomlinson, Preaching

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Prayer of Application

*Hymn #165 (pg 13) “To Your Temple I Repair”

*Benediction

*Hymn of Departure (Below) “He Is Coming Again”

He is coming again, He is coming again, The very same Jesus rejected of men; He is coming again, He is coming again, With pow’r and great glory HE is coming again.

Organ Postlude

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THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF OUR HUMAN BODIES AND

HOW IT RELATES TO OUR ‘HOLY CONVOCATIONS”

Of great importance for the Gospel believer, a necessary duty:

Commands:

i. Old Testament:

ii. New Testament: Hebrews 10:24-25.

1) Direct command

2) Our human needs

3) Setting of text

The biblical teaching on the body and how it relates to worship

I. CREATION

1. Creation at large: God made a true, a real, physical universe.

(Genesis 1-2)

i. Not idealism:

ii. Not materialism:

iii. The foundation for the natural sciences:

2. Creation of mankind in particular: both bodies and souls to make a

full human being (Genesis 2:7; Matthew 10:28)

II. FALL

1. Our sin and our relationship with God

2. Our corrupted nation in both body and soul (Ephesians 2:3; Matthew

15:19)

III. REDEMPTION

1. The Incarnation: both body and soul

i. Necessary for identification with

ii. A true body and a reasonable soul

(Matthew 1-2; Luke 1-2; Hebrews 2, esp. verse 14)

iii. Obedience in both His true body and reasonable soul

(Hebrews, particular 2:18; 5:7-9; Luke 2:40, 52)

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iv. Suffering in both His true body and reasonable soul

(Hebrews 5:7-9; Isaiah 53; Psalm 22; the Gospel accounts from

the Garden of Gethsemane through His crucifixion)

v. Exaltation in both His true body and reasonable soul

(Hebrews throughout, particular chapter 2; the accounts of His

resurrection in the NT)

vi. Second Coming in His glorified body, just as He left!

(Acts 1:11 and Revelation)

2. Our salvation is both of the body and the soul

i. At this time, especially the soul (Romans)

ii. Later, also the body (Romans 5-8)

iii. Our sanctification both of the physical and the spiritual part of us

(Romans 6; the pattern of the Epistles in which the doctrine of

redemption always leads to inward and outward transformation of the

believer, but progressively in this life)

3. Creation at large:

i. All creation awaiting the “redemption” of God’s elect in Christ

(Romans 8)

ii. New heavens and earth (II Peter 3)

Christ lives and suffers and rises both body and soul, in His human

nature, and so redeems us both body and soul, and even guarantees the

redemption of the physical universe!

IV. GLORY

1. The new heavens and the new earth (II Peter 3)

2. The glorified Christian (Revelation)

CONCLUSION: how does this emphasis on human as both body and

soul relate to worship

1. Our gathering together

WCF CHAPTER 26 Of the Communion of Saints

2. The sacraments: outwards signs and seals of the spiritual realities of

the Gospel

3. Let us “not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the

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Hymns and Spiritual Songs By Isaac Watts, D.D.

CXXV. Common Metre. Christ’s Compassion to the Weak and Tempted

Heb. iv. 15, 16, and v. 9; Mat. xii. 20.

With joy, we meditate the grace Of our High Priest, above; His heart is made of tenderness, His bowels melt with love. Touched with a sympathy within, He knows our feeble frame, He knows what sore temptations mean, For he has felt the same. But spotless, innocent and pure, The great Redeemer stood: While Satan’s fiery darts he bore, And did resist to blood. He in the days of feeble flesh, Poured out his cries and tears; And, in his measure, feels afresh What every member bears. He’ll never quench the smoking flax, But raise it to a flame, The bruised reed he never breaks, Nor scorns the meanest name. Then let our humble faith address His mercy and his power; We shall obtain delivering grace In the distressing hour.

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The Rock of Scripture by Martyn Lloyd-Jones

. . . all teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the Scriptures. Here is God’s revelation of Himself, given in parts and portions in the Old Testament with an increasing clarity and with a culminating finality, coming eventually ‘in the fulness of the times’ to the perfect, absolute, final revelation in God the Son. He in turn enlightens and reveals His will and teaching to these apostles, endows them with a unique authority, fills them with the needed ability and power, and gives them the teaching that is essential to the well-being of the Church and God’s people. We can build only upon this one, unique, authority. The choice for us today is really as simple as it was for those first Christians in the early days. We either accept this authority or else we accept the authority of ‘modern knowledge’, modern science, human understanding, human ability. It is one or the other. . . . For us . . . there is no real choice. On the one hand, trusting to human ability and understanding, everything is flux and change, uncertain and insecure, ever liable to collapse. On the other is not only ‘the impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture’, but there is the Light of the world, the Word of God, the Truth itself. . . . The Lord of the Church has declared: ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away.’ It is a word that abides in time; it is a word that abides in death; it is a word that shall confront us in eternity. Reprinted with permission from A First Book of Daily Readings from the Works of Martyn Lloyd-Jones by Martyn Lloyd-Jones, selected by Frank Cumbers (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan; www.eerdmans.com; December 1983; ISBN 0-8028-1354-2) pg. 73.

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WEEKLY CALENDAR

TODAY: 6/7/20 9:30 A.M. NO Sunday school 10:45 A.M. Morning Worship Service in Sanctuary and streamed online 6:00 P.M. Evening Worship Service in Sanctuary and streamed online

WEDNESDAY: 6/10/20 7:00 P.M. Wednesday Evening Bible Fellowship in Fellowship Hall

FRIDAY: 6/12/20 CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED SATURDAY: 6/13/20 9:00 A.M. Truth Unchanged and Unchanging Radio Ministry on WDER,

AM - 1320, FM - 92.1, on the Web - http://player.tritondigital.com/15101 or on TuneIn.com

NEXT SUNDAY: 6/14/20 9:30 A.M. NO Sunday school 10:45 A.M. Morning Worship Service in Sanctuary and streamed online 6:00 P.M. Evening Worship Service in Sanctuary and streamed online

ANNOUNCEMENTS – 6/7/20

WEDNESDAY PRAYER AND BIBLE FELLOWSHIP: Wednesday Evening Bible Study will begin again this week, June 10th, in Fellowship Hall. Pastor Allen will be resuming his study in the Book of Job.

WORSHIP SERVICES: For those who cannot resume physical worship here at the church you can still access the worship services either from

https://firstchurchofmerrimack.org/live, or you can follow the Facebook page

(https://www.facebook.com/firstchurchofmerrimack) or the YouTube channel

(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfTRBwJ3vxbxdJU9Io0_nQ) to be notified of when we go live.

CHURCH OFFICE HOURS: The Church office will be closed Friday, June 12th, but will reopen as usual on Monday, June 15th.

PRAYER AGENDA EMAILED SEPARATELY

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