Trinity 10

 

Today's liturgy is the Divine Service, Setting Four, LSB pages 205ff.

 

907 God Himself Is Present

Text: Gerhard Tersteegen, 1697–1769, abr.; tr. Frederick W. Foster, 1760–1835, alt.; tr. John Miller, 1756–90, alt.
Tune: Joachim Neander, 1650–80
Text and tune: Public domain

 

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The sign of the cross may be made by all in remembrance of their Baptism.

 

Invocation

P In the name of the Father and of the T Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C Amen.

 

Exhortation LSB 203

P Our help is in the name of the Lord,

C who made heaven and earth.

P If You, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?

C But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared.

P Since we are gathered to hear God’s Word, call upon Him in prayer and praise, and receive the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ in the fellowship of this altar, let us first consider our unworthiness and confess before God and one another that we have sinned in thought, word, and deed, and that we cannot free ourselves from our sinful condition. Together as His people let us take refuge in the infinite mercy of God, our heavenly Father, seeking His grace for the sake of Christ, and saying: God, be merciful to me, a sinner.

 

Confession of Sins LSB 203

C Almighty God, have mercy upon us, forgive us our sins, and lead us to everlasting life. Amen.

 

Prayer for Forgiveness

P Almighty God, merciful Father, in Holy Baptism You declared us to be Your children and gathered us into Your one, holy Church, in which You daily and richly forgive us our sins and grant us new life through Your Spirit. Be in our midst, enliven our faith, and graciously receive our prayer and praise; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

C Amen.

 

 

Introit

P I call to God, and he hears my voice;

C he redeems my soul in safety.

P Cast your burden on the Lord,

C and he will sustain you.

P Give ear to my prayer, O God,

C and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!

P My heart is in anguish within me;

C the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

P Fear and trembling come upon me,

C and horror overwhelms me.

P But I call to God,

C and the Lord will save me.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning,

is now, and will be forever. Amen.

P I call to God, and he hears my voice;

C he redeems my soul in safety.

P Cast your burden on the Lord,

C and he will sustain you.

 

Kyrie LSB 204

 

Gloria in Excelsis LSB 204

Text: Stephen P. Starke

 

Salutation and Collect of the Day

P The Lord be with you.

C And also with you.

P Let us pray.

O God, You declare Your almighty power above all in showing mercy and pity. Mercifully grant us such a measure of Your grace that we may obtain Your gracious promises and be made partakers of Your heavenly treasures; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

 

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Catechesis - 1st Commandment

P Today's catechetical reading is the First Commandment. What is the First Commandment?

C You shall have no other Gods. (K)

P What does this mean?

C We should fear, love and trust in God above all things. (2)

P What passages of Holy Scripture inform us and convince us of this truth?

C Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. –Deuteronomy 6:4 (1)

[T]here is no God but one. –1 Corinthians 8:4 (3)

I am the Lord; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. –Isaiah 42:8 (4)

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. –Psalm 14:1 (4)

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. –Proverbs 8:13 (5)

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.  –Psalm 118:8 (5)

 

Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 7:1–11

¹The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ²“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you men of Judah who enter these gates to worship the Lord. ³Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. ⁴Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

⁵“For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly execute justice one with another, ⁶if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, ⁷then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.

⁸“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. ⁹Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, ¹⁰and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations? ¹¹Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord.”

A This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

 

 

Gradual Psalm 17:8, 2

Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
From your presence let my vindication come!
Let your eyes behold the right!

 

Epistle Romans 9:30—10:4

³⁰What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; ³¹but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. ³²Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, ³³as it is written,

“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

¹Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. ²I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. ⁴For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

A This is the Word of the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

 

Stand

 

 

Alleluia and Verse

 

Alleluia LSB 205

 

Verse (Propers) Psalm 88:1

P O Lord, God of my salvation; I cry out day and night before you. Alleluia.

 

Alleluia LSB 205

 

Holy Gospel Luke 19:41–48

P The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the nineteenth chapter.

C Glory to You, O Lord.

⁴¹When [Jesus] drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, ⁴²saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. ⁴³For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side ⁴⁴and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

⁴⁵And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, ⁴⁶saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

⁴⁷And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, ⁴⁸but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.

P This is the Gospel of the Lord.

C Praise to You, O Christ.

 

Ordinarily, we confess the Nicene Creed during the Divine Service. During these summer months, we confess the creed of our baptism, the Apostles' Creed, to help keep it fresh in our minds throughout our lives as God's baptized children.

 

Apostles’ Creed

C I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

     maker of heaven and earth.

And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,

     who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

     born of the virgin Mary,

     suffered under Pontius Pilate,

     was crucified, died and was buried.

     He descended into hell.

     The third day He rose again from the dead.

     He ascended into heaven

     and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

     From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit,

     the holy Christian Church,

          the communion of saints,

     the forgiveness of sins,

     the resurrection of the body,

     and the life T everlasting. Amen.

 

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644 The Church’s One Foundation

Text: Samuel J. Stone, 1839–1900, alt.
Tune: Samuel S. Wesley, 1810–76
Text and tune: Public domain

 

 

Sermon - What Makes for Peace? - Luke 19:41-48

 

 

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Offertory

Text: Psalm 51:10–12
Tune: Johann Georg Winer, 1583–1651, adapt.
Text and tune: Public domain

 

Prayer of the Church

P In peace, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P In thanksgiving for Christ, in whom we know the things that make for peace, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For the Church on earth, that filled by the Holy Spirit, we would not lie about our sin and defile God’s temple, but follow His ways by caring for the sojourner, the fatherless and the widow, defending the blood of the innocent and turning away from all other gods, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For all servants in the Church, that blessed with a variety of gifts from the one Holy Spirit, each may use them for the common good of God’s people, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For the family and all godly Christian homes, that God would give parents diligence and persistence in their duties to teach the faith in word and example; that He would keep all children in His promise made to them in their Baptism; and that the patience, kindness and endurance of Christian love would have no end among us, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For the government and those given authority to break and hinder the plans of the wicked and reward and encourage whatever is righteous and good, that through them God would bring about His good and gracious will, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For all who call to God from hearts in anguish with anxiety and depression, suffering from the terrors of death and overwhelmed by horror, that casting all their burdens on the Lord, they would receive His peace and healing now, and eternal salvation in the life to come, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For the ancient people of our merciful God, that they would acknowledge Jesus Christ to be the light of truth and so be delivered from darkness, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P For those who receive the Lord’s Supper this day, that they would know the time of the Lord’s visitation at the cross and in this Sacrament, and so be made ready for His time of visitation on the Last Day, let us pray to the Lord:

C Lord, have mercy.

P We know that these petitions are pleasing to You, heavenly Father, and that You hear them for the sake of Christ Jesus, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

 

The offering is presented.

 

Preface LSB 208

P The Lord be with you.

C And also with you.

P Lift up your hearts.

C We lift them to the Lord.

P Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

C It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

P It is truly good, right, and salutary that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to You, O Lord, holy Father, almighty and everlasting God, for the countless blessings You so freely bestow on us and all creation. Above all, we give thanks for Your boundless love shown to us when You sent Your only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, into our flesh and laid on Him our sin, giving Him into death that we might not die eternally. Because He is now risen from the dead and lives and reigns to all eternity, all who believe in Him will overcome sin and death and will rise again to new life. Therefore with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising You and saying:

 

 

Sanctus 208

Text: Stephen P. Starke

 

Prayer of Thanksgiving

P Blessed are You, O Lord our God, king of all creation, for You have had mercy on us and given Your only-begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

In Your righteous judgment You condemned the sin of Adam and Eve, who ate the forbidden fruit, and You justly barred them and all their children from the tree of life. Yet, in Your great mercy, You promised salvation by a second Adam, Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, and made His cross a life-giving tree for all who trust in Him.

We give You thanks for the redemption You have prepared for us through Jesus Christ. Grant us Your Holy Spirit that we may faithfully eat and drink of the fruits of His cross and receive the blessings of forgiveness, life, and salvation that come to us in His body and blood.

Hear us as we pray in His name and as He has taught us:

 

Lord’s Prayer

C Our Father who art in heaven,

     hallowed be Thy name,

     Thy kingdom come,

     Thy will be done on earth

          as it is in heaven;

     give us this day our daily bread;

     and forgive us our trespasses

          as we forgive those

          who trespass against us;

     and lead us not into temptation,

     but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom

     and the power and the glory

     forever and ever. Amen.

 

The Words of Our Lord

P Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night when He was betrayed, took bread, and when He had given thanks, He broke it and gave it to the disciples and said: “Take, eat; this is My T body, which is given for you. This do in remembrance of Me.”

In the same way also He took the cup after supper, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying: “Drink of it, all of you; this cup is the new testament in My T blood, which is shed for you for the forgiveness of sins. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”

 

Pax Domini

P The peace of the Lord be with you always.

C Amen.

 

Agnus Dei LSB 210

Text: Stephen P. Starke

 

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Distribution

 

628 Your Table I Approach

 

5 O grant, most blessèd Lord,
    That earth and hell combined
May not about this sacrament
    Raise doubt within my mind.

 

6 Oh, may I never fail
    To thank You day and night
For Your true body and true blood,
    O God, my peace and light.

Text: Gerhard Wolter Molanus, 1633–1722; tr. Matthias Loy, 1828–1915, alt.
Tune: Trente quatre Pseaumes de David, 1551, Geneva, ed. Louis Bourgeois
Text and tune: Public domain

 

760 What God Ordains Is Always Good

 

5 What God ordains is always good:
    Though I the cup am drinking
Which savors now of bitterness,
    I take it without shrinking.
        For after grief
        God gives relief,
My heart with comfort filling
And all my sorrow stilling.

 

6 What God ordains is always good:
    This truth remains unshaken.
Though sorrow, need, or death be mine,
    I shall not be forsaken.
        I fear no harm,
        For with His arm
He shall embrace and shield me;
So to my God I yield me.

Text: Samuel Rodigast, 1649–1708; tr. The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941, alt.
Tune: Severus Gastorius, 1646–82, alt.
Text and tune: Public domain

 

 

565 Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ

Text and tune: Public domain

 

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Nunc Dimittis LSB 211

 

Post-Communion Collect

A Let us pray.

O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving-kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C Amen.

 

Benedicamus LSB 212

A Let us bless the Lord.

C Thanks be to God.

 

Benediction

P The Lord bless you and keep you.

The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you.

The Lord look upon you with favor and T give you peace.

C Amen.

 

 

583 God Has Spoken by His Prophets

Text: George W. Briggs, 1875–1959, alt.
Tune: Henry T. Smart, 1813–79
Text: © 1953, renewed 1981 The Hymn Society, admin. Hope Publishing Co. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License no. 110001518
Tune: Public domain

 

 

 

 

 

Acknowledgments

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