31st December 2023 MORNING SERVICE, St John's Annerley Presbyterian Church (released 7 January 2024)

31-12-2023 MORNING Rev. Martin Duffield Psalm 98:1-3 INTROIT - HYMN Come Down O Love Divine PRAYER HYMN 1 God the Lord is King Acts 3:1-26 PRAYER HYMN 2 O Jesus Full of Truth and Grace Jeremiah 29:1-14 PRAYER HYMN 3 We Praise You O God PRAYER SERMON: The Dawn of Repentance (Jeremiah 29:12-14) HYMN 4 O Breathe of Life BENEDICTION: Aaronic Blessing + CCLI Streaming Licence No 1053011 + INTROIT Come Down, O Love Divine Bianco da Siena, 1367-1434; tr Richard F Littledale, 1833-90 Tune: DOWN AMPNEY, Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 1. Come down, O Love divine, seek out this soul of mine, and visit it with Your own ardour glowing; O Comforter, draw near, within my heart appear, and kindle it, Your holy flame bestowing. + Hymn 1 God the Lord Is King Psalm 99; The Psalter 1912; George Rawson, 1807-89 Tune: REGENT SQUARE, Henry T Smart, 1813-79 1. God the Lord is King: before Him earth with all your nations, wait! Where the cherubim adore Him, there He sits in royal state: He is holy; He is holy; blessèd, only Potentate! 2. God the Lord is King of glory, Zion, tell the world His fame; ancient Israel, the story of His faithfulness proclaim: He is holy; He is holy; holy is His awesome Name. 3. Laws divine to them were spoken from the pillar of the cloud; sacred precepts, quickly broken! Fiercely then His justice flowed: He is holy; He is holy; to the ground their hearts were bowed. 4. But their Father God forgave them when they sought His face once more: ever ready was to save them, tenderly did He restore: He is holy; He is holy; and on us His grace will pour. + Hymn 2 O Jesus, Full of Truth and Grace Rev. Charles Wesley, 1707-88 ST CATHERINE, Henri F Hemy, 1818-88 & James G Walton, 1821-1905 1. O Jesus, full of truth and grace, more full of grace than I of sin, yet once again I seek Your face; open Your arms and take me in, and freely my backslidings heal, and love the faithless sinner still. 2. You know the way to bring me back, my fallen spirit to restore: O for Your truth and mercy's sake, forgive and help me sin no more; the ruins of my soul repair, and make my heart a house of prayer. 3. My stony heart to flesh convert, my inbred sin from me remove; apply Your blood to all my heart, and melt it by Your dying love; this rebel heart by love subdue, O make it soft and make it new. 4. Yes, give me, Lord, the tender heart a heart that's sensitive to sin; a Godly fear of sin impart, implant, and set it deep within, that I revere Your gracious pow'r, and trust in You from hour to hour. + Hymn 3 We Praise You, O God William P. Mackay 1839-85 Tune: REVIVE US AGAIN, John J Husband, 1760-1825 1. We praise You, O God, for the Son of Your love, for Jesus Who died, and has now gone above. Hallelujah! Yours the glory. Hallelujah! Amen. Hallelujah! Yours the glory. Revive us again. 2. We praise You, O God, for Your Spirit of light Who has shown us our Saviour and scattered our night. Hallelujah! ... 3. All glory and praise to the Lamb that was slain, Who has borne all our sins and has cleans'd ev'ry stain. Hallelujah! ... 4. Revive us again; fill each heart with Your love. May each soul be rekindled with fire from above. Hallelujah! ... + Hymn 4 O Breath of Life, Come Sweeping through Us Elizabeth A Head 1850-1936 Tune: SPIRITUS VITAE, Mary J Hammond, 1878-1964 1. O Breath of life, come sweeping through us; revive Thy church with life and pow'r. O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us, and fit Thy church to meet this hour. 2.O Wind of God, come bend us, break us, till humbly we confess our need; then in Your tenderness remake us, revive, restore: for this we plead. 3. O Breath of love, come breathe within us, Renewing thought and will and heart. Come, Love of Christ, afresh to win us, Revive Thy church in ev'ry part. 4. O heart of Christ, once broken for us, 'Tis there we find our strength and rest. Our broken, contrite hearts now solace, And let Thy waiting church be blest. 5. Revive us, Lord! Is zeal abating While harvest fields are vast and white? Revive us, Lord, the world is waiting; Equip Thy church to spread the light. + SUNG BENEDICTION Aaronic Blessing Numbers 6:24-26 Tune: THE LORD BLESS THEE AND KEEP THEE, Dr Lowell Mason, 1792-1872 The Lord bless you and keep you: the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you: the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. AMEN + POSTLUDE Jesus, the Joy of Loving Hearts, attrib St Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153; tr Ray Palmer, 1808-87 Tune: MARYTON, Henry P Smith, 1825-98 1. Jesus, the joy of loving hearts, true source of life, and light of men, from the best bliss that earth imparts we turn unfilled to You again. 4. Our restless spirits long for You, whichever way our lot is cast, glad when Your gracious smile we view, blessed when our faith can hold You fast.