June 8, 2025

(Apostles’ Creed)

Preaching: Rev. Dan Borvan

Call to Worship: Psalm 107:1

Invocation: Isaiah 25:1

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name,

for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Reading of the Law: 1 John 2:15-16

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Old Testament Lesson: Isaiah 5:1-7

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. 6 I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

New Testament Lesson: Mark 12:1-12

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. 2 When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. 3 And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 4 Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. 5 And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. 6 He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 7 But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ 8 And they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. 9 What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others. 10 Have you not read this Scripture: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 11 this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

12 And they were seeking to arrest him but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they left him and went away.

Sermon Title: “The True Kingdom”

Hymn #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 145-A) “I Will Exalt You, O My God and King” (Verses 1-5)

Hymn #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 119-E) “Teach Me, O Lord, Your Way of Truth”

Hymn #3 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – #515) “More Than Conquerors”

Afternoon Worship

*Call to Worship: Psalm 118:1

*God’s Greeting: 1 Timothy 1:2

*Psalm #1 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 140) “O Save Me, Lord from Evil Men”

*Prayer for Illumination

*Old Testament Lesson: Psalm 24:1-10

*New Testament Lesson: Hebrews 9:11-22

Confessional Reading: Heidelberg Catechism, Lord’s Day 18 

Prayer of Application

*Psalm #2 (Trinity Psalter Hymnal – Psalm 141) “O Lord, to You I Call” (Verses 1-5)

*Benediction