Welcome to Dingwall & Strathpeffer Free Church

1. Welcome to Dingwall & StrathpefferFree Church God Calls Us to Delight in Christ and to Share His Hope.

2. CALL TO WORSHIPfrom Haggai 1 & 2 • At the time for rebuilding God’s temple in Jerusalem, as many wept, the Lord said: • “Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honoured,” says the LORD.

3. CALL TO WORSHIPfrom Haggai 1 & 2 • "I am with you," declares the LORD. • So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God…

4. CALL TO WORSHIPfrom Haggai 1 & 2 • 'Be strong… and work. For I am with you,' declares the LORD Almighty. • 'In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD Almighty.

5. CALL TO WORSHIPfrom Haggai 1 & 2 • 'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD Almighty. • 'The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty."

6. Prayer& DedicationPLEASE STAND

7. Please be SeatedTHANKSGIVING

8. Psalm 150b:1-6* (p. 196) 1 Praise God in his holy temple; praise the LORD in heavens high. 2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his majesty. Praise him! Praise him! Praise him! Praise him! Praise him for his majesty.

9. Psalm 150b:1-6* (2/3) Praise him with the sounding trumpet; praise him with the harp and lute. Praise with tambourine & dancing, praise him with the strings & flute. Praise him! Praise him! Praise him! Praise him! Praise him with the strings & flute.

10. Psalm 150b:1-6* (3/3) 5 Praise him with the clash of cymbals; with loud cymbals praise accord. 6 Praise him, everything that’s breathing! Hallelujah!  Praise the LORD! Praise him! Praise him! (x 2) Hallelujah!  Praise the LORD!

11. Prayer

12. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • MINISTER; Save me, O God, because the mighty waters • have come up to my neck on every side.

13. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • PEOPLE; • For your sake, LORD, I must endure derision; • Because devotion to your house consumes me.

14. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • MINISTER; • I sink in miry depths without a foothold; • I am engulfed beneath the deep floodtide.

15. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • PEOPLE; • For your sake, LORD, I must endure derision; • Because devotion to your house consumes me.

16. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • MINISTER; • My throat is parched; I’m weary from my shouting; • My eyes fail, looking to my God for aid.

17. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • PEOPLE; • For your sake, LORD, I must endure derision; • Because devotion to your house consumes me.

18. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • MINISTER; • For those who hate and loathe me without reason • are more than all the hairs upon my head.

19. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • ALL; • May those who hope in you, the LORD Almighty, • not be disgraced on my account, O God;

20. Responsive Reading Psalm 69 (from Sing Psalms) • ALL; • May those who seek your face, O God of Israel, • not suffer shame because of me, O Lord.

21. Children’s Talk

22. A ‘SUMO’ verse: 1 Peter 5:10 • And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

23. Psalm 23 1/6 Townend Version THE LORD’S MY SHEPHERD, I’ll not want. He makes me lie in pastures green. He leads me by the still, still waters, His goodness restores my soul.

24. Psalm 23 2/6 And I will trust in You alone. And I will trust in You alone, For Your endless mercy follows me, Your goodness will lead me home. (Descant)I will trust, I will trust in You. I will trust, I will trust in You. Endless mercy follows me, Goodness will lead me home.

25. Psalm 23 3/6 He guides my ways in righteousness, And He anoints my head with oil, And my cup, it overflows with joy, I feast on His pure delights.

26. Psalm 23 4/6 And I will trust in You alone. And I will trust in You alone, For Your endless mercy follows me, Your goodness will lead me home. (Descant)I will trust, I will trust in You. I will trust, I will trust in You. Endless mercy follows me, Goodness will lead me home.

27. Psalm 23 5/6 And though I walk the darkest path, I will not fear the evil one, For You are with me, and Your rod and staff Are the comfort I need to know.

28. Psalm 23 6/6 And I will trust in You alone. And I will trust in You alone, For Your endless mercy follows me, Your goodness will lead me home. (Descant)I will trust, I will trust in You. I will trust, I will trust in You. Endless mercy follows me, Goodness will lead me home.

29. Bible ReadingJohn 2:13-25(p. 1065)

30. John 2:13-25 • 13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. • 14 In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. • 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

31. John 2:13-25 • 16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father's house into a market!" • 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me." • 18 Then the Jews demanded of him, "What miraculous sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?" • 19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."

32. John 2:13-25 • 20 The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" • 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. • 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

33. John 2:13-25 • 23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the miraculous signs he was doing and believed in his name. • 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all men. • 25 He did not need man's testimony about man, for he knew what was in a man.

34. PSALM 134 (a)* (p. 175) Singing the Psalm through twice

35. PSALM 134 (a)* (p. 175) 1 Praise the LORD, all you his servants, as you serve with one accord; Praise the LORD in your night watches in the temple of the LORD.

36. PSALM 134 (a)* (2/4) 2 Raise your hands within his temple; to the LORD your God give praise. 3 He who made the earth and heavens bless you from his holy place!

37. PSALM 134 (a)* (3/4) 1 Praise the LORD, all you his servants, as you serve with one accord; Praise the LORD in your night watches in the temple of the LORD.

38. PSALM 134 (a)* (4/4) 2 Raise your hands within his temple; to the LORD your God give praise. 3 He who made the earth and heavens bless you from his holy place!

39. Sermon John 2:13-25SHARING JESUS’ ZEAL

40. 1 – Jesus’ Zeal for True Worship (13-17) • Zeal = a boiling pot. Why was Jesus so angry? • Peter Maiden: “Don’t give up on the church. It’s one of God’s most brilliant ideas.” • ACCESS to God for Sinners was being denied. Profit came first.

41. Luther said: • “Zeal is love made angry.”

42. 2 – Jesus’ Zeal for His Own Mission (17) • It takes a change to the FUTURE tense to understand Jesus’ mission from Psalm 69:9 • "Zeal for your house will consume me." • First suffering, then death, and then… what? What is the mission?

43. 2 – Jesus’ Zeal for His Own Mission (17) • Note well: Jesus’ CORE MISSION (the cross) was opposed… • By the religious, and by the when-the-going-is-easy followers… • Christ’s mission is STILL opposed today, and in much the same ways.

44. 3 – Jesus’ Zeal for the True Temple (18-22) • Why did Jesus ignore a 46 year old gleaming-white temple? (Started in 20 BC, it took thousands of masons until 64 AD to complete the building project). • What has the last line in Zechariah’s prophecy to teach us?

45. Zechariah 14:21 • No Canaanites in the temple please! • That’s the NIV and AV, but in the ESV:“And there shall no longer be a trader in the house of the LORD of hosts on that day.” • Do we accept Jesus as our true temple? Is he our one and only way to know and serve God?

46. EVERYONE IS ZEALOUS! • Does Jesus offend your zeal, or inspire your zeal? • Alexander Shields:“…a pint of hope, three pints of faith, and nine pints of hot, hot, hot burning zeal.”

47. OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24) • Minister: May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. • People: The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.

48. OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S WORD (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24) • Minister: May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. • People: The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.

49. Psalm 72:17-19 (p. 314) 17 His name for ever shall endure; last like the sun it shall: Men shall be blessed in him, and blessed all nations shall him call.

50. Psalm 72:17-19 (2/3) 18 Now blessèd be the LORD our God, the God of Israel, For he alone doth wondrous works, in glory that excel.