Sunday 21st June 2020 - Let Justice Flow

WELCOME 
Welcome To Burnside At Home
And thank you to everyone who is involved in our time of worship today.
We are still dealing with Lockdown & Social Distancing
Even though restrictions are being relaxed almost every day.
We have world wide protests and people looking for Justice.

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Phone Burnside
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BESIDE THE BURN
Remember our Bible Study - Beside The Burn is available HERE.
And it also Appears each week day on the Blog in 5 minute segments.

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Sunday School
This week I am delighted that we have Sunday School once again.
There will still be a Children's Message as part of the service but we also have this 20 minute Sunday School from Campaigners Northern Ireland. You can either allow children to watch on a 2nd screen while you listen to the sermon, but better by far is to watch together and learn the songs and talk about the story. 
Even if you are not of Sunday School age, I know of several adults who have enjoyed going back to Sunday School as last few weeks.  Thanks to Laura at Campaigners for providing this.

COMPLETE SERVICE
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INDIVIDUAL PARTS OF THE SERVICE
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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Burnside At Home

We are still dealing with Lockdown & Social Distancing
Even though restrictions are being relaxed almost every day.
We have world wide protests and people looking for Justice.

So as we worship today,
I want us to ask,
“How Do We Respond To Injustice?”

CALL TO WORSHIP

As we prepare to worship, 
The Psalmist has a great message for us in Psalm 95
Where he encourages us to come to God and worship,
To soften our hearts to his word so that we can respond.

Glenda will read Psalm 95

Psalm 95
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
3 For the LORD is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
9 where your fathers tested and tried me,
though they had seen what I did.
10 For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they have not known my ways.”
11 So I declared on oath in my anger,
“They shall never enter my rest.”

PRAISE​

Psalm 98 Sing To God New Songs Of Worship

Sing To God New Songs Of Worship
All His Deeds Are Marvellous;
He Has Brought Salvation To Us
With His Hand And Holy Arm:
He Has Shown To All The Nations
Righteousness And Saving Power;
He Recalled His Truth And Mercy
To His People Israel.

Sing To God New Songs Of Worship
Earth Has Seen His Victory;
Let The Lands Of Earth Be Joyful
Praising Him With Thankfulness:
Sound Upon The Harp His Praises,
Play To Him With Melody;
Let The Trumpets Sound His Triumph,
Show Your Joy To God The King!

OPENING PRAYER

Father, help us to offer worship that is pleasing to You. 
You want more than singing and a gift in the offering.  
You desire justice!  
So stir our hearts, to offer You true worship 
that provides service to the poor, 
the widow, the slave, the prisoner, the hungry, 
the thirsty, the naked and the homeless (Matthew 25:31-46).  
Let our acts of compassion roll like a river.  
Let us offer worship 
that is woven into obedience 
because anything less than obedience is self-made, 
self-centered, and self-created religion. 
You reject this man-centered worship. 
If we engage in this false religion, 
the end result is bondage.  
So we pray our lives will be marked by true worship, 
and we pray this real worship will free the oppressed 
around us in the name of Jesus, the King of the Kingdom.
​Amen

COMING UP
What is coming up in our service today?
Glenda has already read from Psalm 95
Rea is going to lead us in the Lord’s Prayer
Eileen is going to play a medley of I Know Who Holds The Future & Yesterday, Today, Forever
and Louise Glenn is going to sing Once Again (Jesus Christ I Think About Your Sacrifice)

WHY JESUS?
​Because he gave up everything for me

PRAISE

Louise Glenn sings Once Again - (Jesus Christ I Think Upon Your Sacrifice)

Jesus Christ, I Think Upon Your Sacrifice
You Became Nothing, Poured Out To Death
Many Times I’ve Wondered At Your Gift Of Life
And I’m In That Place Once Again
I’m In That Place Once Again

And Once Again I Look Upon The Cross Where You Died
I’m Humbled By Your Mercy And I’m Broken Inside
Once Again I Thank You
Once Again I Pour Out My Life

Now You Are Exalted To The Highest Place
King Of The Heavens, Where One Day I’ll Bow
But For Now I Marvel At Your Saving Grace
And I’m Full Of Praise Once Again
I’m Full Of Praise Once Again

And Once Again I Look Upon The Cross Where You Died
I’m Humbled By Your Mercy And I’m Broken Inside
Once Again I Thank You
Once Again I Pour Out My Life [2]

Thank You For The Cross
Thank You For The Cross
Thank You For The Cross, My Friend

LORD’S PRAYER
Rea Houston

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Where would you like to be today?

PRAISE
Eileen plays a medley of  I Know Who Holds The Future & Yesterday, Today and Forever

OFFERING

Today in Amos 5 we will discover that God is very particular about what we offer to him in worship
So we do not just offer money to God,
We offer our lives.
We offer our seeking after Justice,

God says,
Amos 5:21-24 (NIV 1984)
21 “I hate, I despise your religious feasts;
I cannot stand your assemblies.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!

Let us pray.
Lord may our worship be acceptable to you.
May we bring Justice to this world as we live for you
May you accept our offering and our lives
As we present them to you now.
AMEN

BIBLE READING​

Amos 5:1-27

​Amos 5 (NIV 1984)
A Lament and Call to Repentance
1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel,
never to rise again,
deserted in her own land,
with no one to lift her up.”
3 This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
“The city that marches out a thousand strong for Israel
will have only a hundred left;
the town that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left.”
4 This is what the LORD says to the house of Israel:
“Seek me and live;
5 do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,
do not journey to Beersheba.
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.”
6 Seek the LORD and live,
or he will sweep through the house of Joseph like a fire;
it will devour,
and Bethel will have no one to quench it.
7 You who turn justice into bitterness
and cast righteousness to the ground
8 (he who made the Pleiades and Orion,
who turns blackness into dawn
and darkens day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land–
the LORD is his name–
9 he flashes destruction on the stronghold
and brings the fortified city to ruin),
10 you hate the one who reproves in court
and despise him who tells the truth.
11 You trample on the poor
and force him to give you grain.
Therefore, though you have built stone mansions,
you will not live in them;
though you have planted lush vineyards,
you will not drink their wine.
12 For I know how many are your offenses
and how great your sins.
You oppress the righteous and take bribes
and you deprive the poor of justice in the courts.
13 Therefore the prudent man keeps quiet in such times,
for the times are evil.
14 Seek good, not evil,
that you may live.
Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you,
just as you say he is.
15 Hate evil, love good;
maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy
on the remnant of Joseph.
16 Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says:
“There will be wailing in all the streets
and cries of anguish in every public square.
The farmers will be summoned to weep
and the mourners to wail.
17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
for I will pass through your midst,”
says the LORD.
The Day of the LORD
18 Woe to you who long
for the day of the LORD!
Why do you long for the day of the LORD?
That day will be darkness, not light.
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
and rested his hand on the wall
only to have a snake bite him.
20 Will not the day of the LORD be darkness, not light–
pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
21 “I hate, I despise your religious feasts;
I cannot stand your assemblies.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
righteousness like a never-failing stream!
25 “Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
26 You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
the pedestal of your idols,
the star of your god–
which you made for yourselves.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,”
says the LORD, whose name is God Almighty.

PRAYER FOR OTHERS

Prayer of Lament

Holy, Perfect God,
We admit that we put other things above you in our lives.
We say we long for you,
but we actually long for more money and more comfort.
Lord, you will come with darkness for us
if our hearts remain captive to anything but you.
We confess that we are openly rebellious against you.
We are fallen, never to rise again unless you lift us up.
Lord, we have failed to worship you with our hearts.
Our religious gatherings are hollow
because our hearts are slaves to lesser things.
We pay you a visit on Sunday,
but we long to go home to our other gods.
Lord God, we confess that we break your heart.
We gather before you half-heartedly,
waiting to go back to worshipping ourselves.
When we truly worship you,
we will seek good and not evil.
We will hate evil and love good.
Lord God, have mercy.
Renew our hearts within us.
Make us long for you, our God.
Amen.

PRAISE

In a moment or two we are going to discover what God wants and what he doesn’t want in our worship
In this song Matt Redman considers what our worship would look like if we got back to the heart of worship.

Heart Of Worship

Verse 1
When the music 
fades, all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart 

Pre-Chorus
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
is not what You have required 
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear 
You're looking into my heart 

Chorus
I'm coming back to the 
heart of worship
And it's all about You, it's 
all about You Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the 
thing I've made it
When it's all about You, it's 
all about You Jesus

Verse 2
King of endless worth
no one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
all I have is Yours
Ev'ry single breath

(Repeat Pre-Chorus & Chorus)

MESSAGE

Based around Amos 5 From the Message

PRAISE

We finish with an old song by Graham Kendrick
I remember singing this as a teenager.

O Lord The Clouds Are Gathering

It is is a cry for mercy
We acknowledge the coming judgement of God and 
We cry out for Mercy
And pray that Justice Will flow

O Lord The Clouds Are Gathering

O Lord, the clouds are gathering
The fire of judgment burns
How we have fallen!
O Lord, you stand appalled to see
Your laws of love so scorned
And lives so broken

Have mercy, Lord, (Men)
Have mercy, Lord, (Women)
Forgive us, Lord, (Men)
Forgive us, Lord (Women)
Restore us, Lord (All)
Revive your church again
Let justice flow (Men)
Let justice flow (Women)
Like rivers (Men)
Like rivers (Women)
And righteousness like a never failing stream (All)

O Lord, over the nations now
Where is the dove of peace?
Her wings are broken
O Lord, while precious children starve
The tools of war increase
Their bread is stolen

Chorus

O Lord, dark powers are poised to flood
Our streets with hate and fear
We must awaken!
O Lord, let love reclaim the lives
That sin would sweep away
And let your kingdom come

Chorus

Yet, O Lord, your glorious cross shall tower
Triumphant in this land
Evil confounding
Through the fire your suffering church display
The glories of her Christ
Praises resounding!

Chorus

BENEDICTION
(inspired by Amos 5)

Now, go forth from this place with renewed inspiration to do the work of God.
Seek good, not evil, love goodness, and establish justice.
This the greatest offering we can make;
letting justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.
Go in peace, with love for our neighbors.

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A LITTLE EXTRA
The Getty Family Hymn Sing with special guests and all four daughters, as Keith says, “What could possibly go wrong?”.

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