april 10th 2011 -service bulletin

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Todays Officiant:Grant Odhner

Soloist: Daniel Jones

Piano: Earl Buys

The New York New Church

114 East 35th Street, New York, NY

Mailing Address:P.O. Box 1478, Murray Hill Station, New York, NY 10156

Phone & Fax: 212-685-8967 Email: swedenborg [email protected] our website: www.newyorknewchurch.org

For more information about Swedenborg and the SwedenborgianChurch, visit the web site: www.swedenborg.org

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W e l c o m e t o

The New Church(Swedenborgian)

Serving the Community Since 1812

And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him


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Order of WorshipApril 10th 2011

Welcome

Prelude

Opening Hymn: All Glory, Praise and Honor (ALLSTAND)

Minister opens Word and reads sentence of Scripture

ALL KNEEL or BOW HEADSMINISTER:Come, and let us return to the LORD.

PEOPLE: For He has torn, but He will heal us;He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

MINISTER: After two days He will revive us.

PEOPLE: On the third day He will raise us up,That we may live in His sight.

MINISTER: And we shall know,And we shall follow on to know the LORD.

PEOPLE: His going forth is established as the morning.

MINISTER: AndHe will come to us like the rain,

PEOPLE: Like the latter rain waters the earth. Hosea 6:1-3

ALL: Lord, we gather to rejoice in the fulfillment of Your goal: I, if I amlifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself. We rejoice in

the sure promise of Your resurrection, and in the faith and hope of Yourdeclarations: All power is given to Me in heaven and on ear th, Be of

good cheer, for I have overcome the world, I am with you always, even

to the end of the age. We pray that we may be part of the joyful multi-

tude whowelcome You into their lives. May we know, may we follow onto know You. May You rise with us in each new day


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The Minister will introduce a prayer

ALL: Our Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven so upon the

earth. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debtsas we also forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom, and the pow-er, and the glory, forever. Amen. Matthew 6: 913

MINISTER: In You, O Lord, I hope;

PEOPLE: You will hear, O Lord my God. Psalm 38: 15

(ALL STAND)

MINISTER: Glory be to the Lord God our Savior Jesus Christ From 2 Peter 3: 18

PEOPLE: He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the

end, the first and the last From Revelation 22: 13

Recitation (next page)

Hymn: Jesus, Savior, Risen Lord (ALL STAND)

Childrens reading and talk(Lk 19:28-48; 21.37-38)

Musical Interlude

Readings: Zech.14:1-9; AC 1812

Sermon: The Mount of Olives & the Lords Last Week

Hymn: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

Prayer and Benediction

Closing of the Word

Closing Hymn: Roll Out, O Song to God

Postlude


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And Jesus called [His disciples] to

Himselfand said to them,

You know that those who are consid-

ered

rulers over the Gentiles

lord it over them,

and their great ones

exercise authority over them.

Yet it shall not be so among you;but whoever desires to become great

among you shall be your servant.

And whoever of you desires to be first

shall be slave of all.

For even the Son of Man did not

come

to be served, but to serve,and to give His life

a ransom for many.

(Mark 10:42-45)


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[Abram] believed in Jehovah. This signifies the Lords faith

at that time, which is evident from the very words. It is also

evident from the connection of things in the internal sense,which is that while He lived in the world the Lord was in

continual combats of temptations, and in continual victories,from a constant inmost confidence and faith that because He

was fighting for the salvation of the whole human race from

pure love, He could not but conquer. This trust is heremeant by believing in Jehovah.

From the love from which anyone fights it is known whathis faith is. He who fights from any other love than love to-

ward the neighbor and toward the Lords kingdom, does not

fight from faith, that is, does not believe in Jehovah, but hebelieves in that which he loves, for the love itself for which

he fights is his faith. For example: he who fights from thelove of becoming the greatest in heaven, does not believe in

Jehovah, but rather in himself. For to desire to become the

greatest is to desire to command others, thus he fights forcommand; and so in all other cases. And thus from the love

itself from which anyone fights, it may be known what hisfaith is.

But in all His combats of temptations the Lord never

fought from the love of self, or for Himself, but for all in theuniverse, consequently, not that He might become the great-

est in heaven, for this is contrary to the Divine Love, andscarcely even that He might be the least; but only that all oth-ers might become something, and be saved. As He also says

in Mark:The two sons of Zebedee said, Grant to us that we may

sit, one on Your right hand, and the other on Your left, in

Your glory. Jesus said, Whoever would be great amongyou shall be your minister; and whoever would be first

among you, shall be servant of all. For the Son of man

also did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, andto give His soul a ransom for many. Mark 10:37, 43-45

This is the love, or this is the faith, from which the Lordfought, and which is here meant by believing in Jehovah.

. (Arcana Caelestia 1812)

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