Worship Preparation - September 13, 2026

Read the sermon text: Luke 12:35-48

Read the sermon summary: When will Jesus return to bring a close to the last days and usher in a new beginning? We naturally yearn to nail down the event's precise timing. Our text confronts us with a better question: What will we be found doing when Jesus returns? Jesus' words turn sharp towards the end. We encounter two servants who will receive beatings and one who will be cut into pieces. But for those servants found faithful, Jesus himself, the Son of Man, will sit them at his table and come and serve them. What will you be found doing when Jesus returns?

Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon: 

Before The Throne Of God

Verse 1

Before the throne of God above

I have a strong and perfect plea

A great High Priest whose name is Love

Who ever lives and pleads for me

Verse 2

My name is graven on His hands

My name is written on His heart

I know that while in heaven He stands

No tongue can bid me thence depart

Verse 3

When Satan tempts me to despair

And tells me of the guilt within

Upward I look and see Him there

Who made an end of all my sin

Verse 4

Because the sinless Saviour died

My sinful soul is counted free

For God the Just is satisfied

To look on Him and pardon me

Verse 5

Behold Him there the risen Lamb

My perfect spotless Righteousness

The great unchangeable I AM

The King of glory and of grace

Verse 6

One with Himself I cannot die

My soul is purchased by His blood

My life is hid with Christ on high

With Christ my Saviour and my God

CCLI Song #990391

Charitie Lees Bancroft

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