Open Arms Sunday worship Pentecost May 31, 2020

Pentecost Sunday
Divine Service
May 31, 2020

Welcome to Open Arms Lutheran Church, we're very glad you've come to worship with us!  God bless our worship together, as He gives us His gifts! 

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Invocation
V:   In the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit,
C:  AMEN

Opening Song:    Living Hope

Confession and Absolution

V:  Jesus Christ is our Living Hope, because we are hopeless.  We’re hopelessly lost in our sins, hopelessly lost in our self-importance, our self-centeredness, our selfishness.  We're hopelessly lost in ourselves.  We’re hopeless because, by ourselves we can do nothing, especially nothing to save ourselves.  So, hopeless one, join with me as together we confess our sins, and ask God’s mercy and forgiveness.

C: O Father, have mercy on us, for Jesus’ sake.

                  Silent confession of your sins

V:  So, Jesus Christ stepped into our hopeless situation.  Because He died on Calvary’s cross and rose from the grip of His tomb, He is alive, and so are we!  Jesus Christ is our Living Hope, because He lives and gives us hope.  Not a worldly hope, which may give way.  Jesus Christ has given you a certain hope!   You are forgiven!  You are given His righteousness, in the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C:  Amen. 

Old Testament Reading        Numbers 11:24-30

   So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. And he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people and placed them around the tent.  Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the Spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied.  But they did not continue doing it.

   Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the Spirit rested on them.  They were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.  And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”  And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, “My lord Moses, stop them.”  But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake?  Would that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”  And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.

V:  This is the Word of the Lord.   

C:  Thanksbe to God.

Epistle Reading                     Acts 2:1-21

   When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.  And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

   Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.  And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.  And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?  And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?  Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”  And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”  But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”

   But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words.  For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.  But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel:

            “And in the last days it shall be, God declares,

   that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,

   and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

   and your young men shall see visions,

   and your old men shall dream dreams;

   even on my male servants and female servants

   in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. 

And I will show wonders in the heavens above

   and signs on the earth below,

   blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;

   the sun shall be turned to darkness

   and the moon to blood,

   before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.

And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."

V:   This is the Word of the Lord.   

C:  Thanks be to God.

Holy Gospel                           John 7:37-39

V:  The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the 7^thchapter.

C:  Gloryto You, O Lord. 

     On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.  Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”  Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

V:  This is the Word of the Lord.  

C:  Praise to You, O Christ.

Sermon  

 

The Nicene Creed     

   I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.

   And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.  

   And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Rite of Confirmation:  Ben O’Kelley

Prayers of the Church

The Lord’s Prayer  

   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.

Benediction  

Closing Song:   Our God