Happy Father's Day!
This is Pastor Justin Westmoreland from the Fully Alive Athlete Pastor Channel, and this is a recording of the worship service for Trinity Presbyterian Church of Norman. You can find us online at trinitynorman.com

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In Romans 3:21-26, Paul shared that justification by faith alone is received by us freely by God's grace alone, accomplished entirely on account of the redemption which is in Jesus Christ, as God set Jesus forth as a propitiation, God was vindicated: just and a justified, and worthy of our worship! In Romans 3:27-31, Paul follows the world's greatest paragraph by demonstrating how our theology matters to how we consider ourselves, others, and God and his law.

After articulating his gospel centering on righteousness from God through justification by faith in Jesus Christ alone, Paul points us to God's justifying Abraham (Genesis 15:6) as proof that justification is by faith alone (Romans 4:1-3), and David's testimony in Psalm 32 (Romans 4:7-8). In 4:9-12, Paul further emphasizes justification by faith alone from scripture by proving Abraham's circumcision had nothing to do with his justification. Instead, circumcision was a seal of the righteousness God imputed to him decades earlier.


The online bulletin is here:https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:c7efcb5b-7ced-4c5d-8842-24cd0a85063e

You might find the PowerPoint slides helpful to follow along with the liturgy, sermon, and check out the announcements you missed. Link is here:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AiOAeMeYLtbuivh-aYoiq_QWkXS8lw?e=rCUcoj

We sang:
Holy Holy Holy
In Christ Alone
How Sweet and Awesome Is the Place
Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder
Gloria Patri
and the Doxology

We observed the celebration of Communion.
We prayed the Lord's Prayer and confessed the Westminster Larger Catechsim q73.

If you're in the area, we'd love to see you in person.

If you have questions contact admin@trinitynorman.com and let us know how we might be able to help you.
The sermon text was :

1 What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”

4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”

9 Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. 10 How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised. 11 He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12 and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

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