Good Friday Worship Guide | Capital Pres Family

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Service of Divine Worship

April 7, 2023 | 12PM

PRELUDE

WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS

WELCOME

CALL TO WORSHIP

PSALM 23:1-4

Leader: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

All: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

PRAYER OF INVOCATION

SONG OF PRAISE

NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD

What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain: O precious is the flow that makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know, nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For my cleansing this I see—nothing but the blood of Jesus;
For my pardon this my plea—nothing but the blood of Jesus. Refrain

Nothing can for sin atone—nothing but the blood of Jesus;
Naught of good that I have done—nothing but the blood of Jesus. Refrain

Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

FIRST READING

MARK 14:32-42 — JESUS PRAYS IN GETHSEMANE

GETHSEMANE HYMN (Worship Team)

To see the King of heaven fall in anguish to his knees,
The Light and Hope of all the world now overwhelmed with grief.
What nameless horrors must he see, to cry out in the garden:
“Oh take this cup away from me! Yet not my will but yours,
Yet not my will but yours.”

MARK 14:43-50 – THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST OF JESUS

RESPONSIVE READING

ISAIAH 53:3-4, 6

Leader: He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

All: Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.

Leader: All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;

All: and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

SONG OF REFLECTION

MAN OF SORROWS, WHAT A NAME

Man of Sorrows! what a name for the Son of God, who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim: Hallelujah! what a Savior!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood,
Sealed my pardon with his blood: Hallelujah! what a Savior!

Guilty, vile, and helpless, we; spotless Lamb of God was he;
Full atonement! can it be? Hallelujah! what a Savior!

SILENT REFLECTION

SECOND READING

MATTHEW 26:57-68 – JESUS BEFORE CAIAPHAS AND THE COUNCIL

MAN OF SORROWS (Worship Team)

Man of sorrows, Lamb of God, by his own betrayed.
The sin of man and wrath of God has been on Jesus laid.
Silent as he stood accused, beaten, mocked, and scorned.
Bowing to the Father’s will, he took a crown of thorns.

MATTHEW 26:69-75 – PETER DENIES JESUS

RESPONSIVE READING

PSALM 88:1-2, 8-9, 13-14

Leader: O Lord, God of my salvation,
I cry out day and night before you.

All: Let my prayer come before you;
incline your ear to my cry!

Leader: You have caused my companions to shun me;
you have made me a horror to them.

All: I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
my eye grows dim through sorrow.

Leader: But I, O Lord, cry to you;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.

All: O Lord, why do you cast my soul away?
Why do you hide your face from me?

SONG OF REFLECTION

HOW DEEP THE FATHER’S LOVE FOR US

How deep the Father’s love for us, how vast beyond all measure,
That he should give his only Son to make a wretch his treasure.
How great the pain of searing loss. The Father turns his face away.
As wounds which mar the Chosen One bring many sons to glory.

Behold the Man upon a cross, my sin upon his shoulders.
Ashamed I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers.
It was my sin that held him there until it was accomplished;
His dying breath has brought me life. I know that it is finished.

SILENT REFLECTION

THIRD READING

JOHN 18:28-40 – JESUS BEFORE PILATE

GETHSEMANE HYMN (Worship Team)

To know each friend will fall away, and heaven’s voice be still,
For hell to have its vengeful day upon Golgatha’s hill.
No words describe the Savior’s plight, to be by God forsaken,
‘Til wrath and love are satisfied, and ev’ry sin is paid,
And ev’ry sin is paid.

JOHN 19:1-6 – JESUS DELIVERED TO BE CRUCIFIED

RESPONSIVE READING

PSALM 109:1-5

Leader: Be not silent, O God of my praise!
For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me,
speaking against me with lying tongues.

All: They encircle me with words of hate,
and attack me without cause.

Leader: In return for my love they accuse me,
but I give myself to prayer.

All: So they reward me evil for good,
and hatred for my love.

SONG OF REFLECTION

ROCK OF AGES

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee;
Let the water and the blood, from thy riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure, cleanse me from its guilt and pow’r.

Not the labors of my hands can fulfill thy law’s demands;
Could my zeal no respite know, could my tears forever flow,
All for sin could not atone; thou must save and thou alone.

Nothing in my hands I bring, simply to thy cross I cling.
Naked, come to thee for dress; helpless look to thee for grace;
Foul, I to the Fountain fly; wash me, Savior, or I die.

SILENT REFLECTION

FOURTH READING

LUKE 23:32-43 – THE CROSS

LAMB OF GOD (Worship Team)

Your gift of love they crucified;
They laughed and scorned him as he died.
The humble King they named a fraud,
And sacrificed the Lamb of God.
Oh Lamb of God, sweet Lamb of God.
I love the holy Lamb of God.
Oh, wash me in his precious blood,
My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.

CCLI Song #16787; Words & Music by Twila Paris; © 1985 Jubilee Communications Inc.;
Mountain Spring Music; CCLI License #152421

RESPONSIVE READING

PSALM 22:1-2,16-18

Leader: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?

All: O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
For dogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers encircles me;

Leader: they have pierced my hands and feet—
I can count all my bones—
they stare and gloat over me;

All: they divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.

SONG OF REFLECTION

O SACRED HEAD, NOW WOUNDED

O sacred Head, now wounded with grief and shame weighed down;
Now scornfully surrounded with thorns, thine only crown;
O sacred Head, what glory, what bliss till now was thine!
Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call thee mine.

What thou, my Lord, hast suffered was all for sinners’ gain:
Mine, mine was the transgression, but thine the deadly pain.
Lo, here I fall, my Savior! ‘Tis I deserve thy place;
Look on me with thy favor, vouchsafe to me thy grace.

Words by Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153; Transl. by P. Gerhardt, 1656 & J.W. Alexander, 1830;
Music PASSION CHORALE by H.L. Hassler, 1601; Arr. © 2018 Jeff Vogan; CCLI License #152421

SILENT REFLECTION

FIFTH READING

JOHN 19:28-37 – THE DEATH OF JESUS

GETHSEMANE HYMN (Worship Team)

What took him to this wretched place, what kept him on this road?
His love for Adam’s cursed race, for ev’ry broken soul.
No sin too slight to overlook, no crime to great to carry,
All mingled in this poisoned cup, and yet he drank it all,
The Savior drank it all. The Savior drank it all.

JOHN 19:38-42 – JESUS IS BURIED

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION

SERMON

BEHOLD THE KING

3. The King’s Death

SONG OF RESPONSE

WHEN I SURVEY THE WONDROUS CROSS

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride.

See, from his head, his hands, his feet, sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet, or thorns compose so rich a crown.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small:
Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.

CLOSING PRAYER

Please exit the Sanctuary in silence. The Sanctuary will remain open for silent meditation until 3pm. You are also welcome to silently meditate using the art display found in the hallway to the right as you exit the Sanctuary.

CONNECTING TO WORSHIP

LOVE LUSTRES AT CALVARY

The Valley of Vision

My Father,

Enlarge my heart, warm my affections,
open my lips,
supply words that proclaim
‘Love lustres at Calvary.’
There grace removes my burdens and heaps
them on thy Son,
made a transgressor, a curse, and sin for me;
There the sword of thy justice smote the man,
thy fellow;
There thy infinite attributes were magnified,
and infinite atonement was made;
There infinite punishment was due,
and infinite punishment was endured.
Christ was all anguish that I might be all joy,
cast off that I might be brought in,
trodden down as an enemy
that I might be welcomed as a friend,
surrendered to hell’s worst
that I might attain heaven’s best,
stripped that I might be clothed,
wounded that I might be healed,
athirst that I might drink,
tormented that I might be comforted,
made a shame that I might inherit glory,
entered darkness that I might have
eternal light.

My Savior wept that all tears might be wiped
from my eyes,
groaned that I might have endless song,
endured all pain that I might have
unfading health,
bore a thorny crown that I might have
a glory-diadem,
bowed his head that I might uplift mine,
experienced reproach that I might
receive welcome,
closed his eyes in death that I might gaze
on unclouded brightness,
expired that I might for ever live.
O Father, who spared not thine only Son that
thou mightest spare me,
All this transfer thy love designed and
accomplished;
Help me to adore thee by lips and life.
O that my every breath might be
ecstatic praise,
my every step buoyant with delight,
as I see my enemies crushed,
Satan baffled, defeated, destroyed,
sin buried in the ocean of reconciling blood,
hell’s gates closed, heaven’s portal open.
Go forth, O conquering God, and show me
the cross, mighty to subdue, comfort
and save.