RENEWAL

READER: The God of our Fathers has had mercy upon us. According to His promise, He sent our Righteous Messiah to redeem us from all iniquity, As it is written, He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our facts from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

CONGREGATION: Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.

READER: But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.

CONGREGATION: All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

READER: He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.

READER: And they made His grave with the wicked--But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.

CONGREGATION: Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

READER: He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many; For He shall bear their iniquities.

1 Corinthians 11:27-32

CONGREGATION: Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep. But if we judged ourselves, we would not come under judgment. When we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

LEADER: Let us take time now to reflect upon our sins. In the privacy of our hearts, let us confess to Almighty God, for He has promised forgiveness to all who truly repent and who receive His Son with a living faith, as it is written,

"If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from unrigtheousness."

"My little children, these things I write to you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Yeshua the Messiah, the Righteous; and He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."

"Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, 'I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"-- and you forgave the guilt of my sin.' "