Christ’s Glorious Headship (Ephesians 1:22-23) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. Over the Universe
II. Over the Church
Psalm singing: 63:1-8; 34:10-16; 8:1-9; 110:1-6 (see below for the words to the Psalms)
Scripture reading: Ephesians 1
Administration of the Lord's Supper

Psalm 63:1-8
1 LORD, thee my God, I’ll early seek:
my soul doth thirst for thee;
My flesh longs in a dry parch’d land,
wherein no waters be:
2 That I thy power may behold,
and brightness of thy face,
As I have seen thee heretofore
within thy holy place.
3 Since better is thy love than life,
my lips thee praise shall give.
4 I in thy name will lift my hands,
and bless thee while I live.
5 Ev’n as with marrow and with fat
my soul shall filled be ;
Then shall my mouth with joyful lips
sing praises unto thee:
6 When I do thee upon my bed
remember with delight,
And when on thee I meditate
in watches of the night.
7 In shadow of thy wings I’ll joy;
for thou mine help hast been.
8 My soul thee follows hard; and me
thy right hand doth sustain.

Psalm 34:10-16
10 The lions young may hungry be,
and they may lack their food :
But they that truly seek the Lord
shall not lack any good.
11 0 children, hither do ye come,
and unto me give ear;
I shall you teach to understand
how ye the Lord should fear.
12 What man is he that life desires,
to see good would live long?
13 Thy lips refrain from speaking guile,
and from ill words thy tongue.
14 Depart from ill, do good, seek peace,
pursue it earnestly.
15 God’s eyes are on the just; his ears
are open to their cry.
16 The face of God is set against
those that do wickedly,
That he may quite out from the earth
cut off their memory.

Psalm 8:1-9
1 HOW excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name !
Who hast thy glory far advanc’d
above the starry frame.
2 From infants’ and from sucklings’ mouth
thou didest strength ordain,
For thy foes’ cause, that so thou might’st
th’ avenging foe restrain.
3 When I look up unto the heav’ns,
which thine own fingers fram’d,
Unto the moon, and to the stars,
which were by thee ordain’d ;
4 Then say I, What is man, that he
remember’d is by thee ?
Or what the son of man, that thou
so kind to him should’st be?
5 For thou a little lower hast
him than the angels made;
With glory and with dignity
thou crowned hast his head.
6 Of thy hands’ works thou mad’st him lord,
all under’s feet didst lay;
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts
that in the field do stray ;
8 Fowls of the air, fish of the sea,
all that pass through the same
9 How excellent in all the earth,
Lord, our Lord, is thy name!

Psalm 110:1-6
1 THE Lord did say unto my Lord,
Sit thou at my right hand,
Until I make thy foes a stool,
whereon thy feet may stand.
2 The Lord shall out of Sion send
the rod of thy great pow’r:
In midst of all thine enemies
be thou the governor.
3 A willing people in thy day
of pow’r shall come to thee,
In holy beauties from morn’s womb;
thy youth like dew shall be.
4 The Lord himself hath made an oath,
and will repent him never,
Of th’ order of Melchisedec
thou art a priest for ever.
5 The glorious and mighty Lord,
that sits at thy right hand,
Shall, in his day of wrath, strike through
kings that do him withstand.
6 He shall among the heathen judge,
he shall with bodies dead
The places fill: o’er many lands
he wound shall ev’ry head.