4th Sunday after Pentecost
Divine Service
June 28, 2020
Divine Service
June 28, 2020
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Welcome!
Invocation
Welcome!
Invocation
V: In the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit,
C: AMEN
Opening Song: Alive In Us
Call to Worship from Psalm 119
V: Look on my affliction and deliver me,
C: for I do not forget your law.
V: Plead my cause and redeem me;
C: give me life according to your promise!
V: Salvation is far from the wicked,
C: for they do not seek your statutes.
V: Great is your mercy, O Lord;
C: give me life according to your rules.
V: The sum of your word is truth,
C: and every one of your righteous rules endures forever.
Confession and Absolution
V: We’ll hear later in our Epistle lesson, how God’s law no longer holds us captive because Jesus Christ has fulfilled the law in our place. And God’s laws are still good and perfect, given in love for our benefit. But the devil, the world, and our sinful natures screw things up. They cause us to sin against God’s good and perfect law. So again today, we come before our loving God to confess our own sins and plead for His mercy.
Silent confession of your sins
V: We also confess together:
C: Heavenly Father, in our thoughts, words and actions, we have sinned against You, against each other and against others we don’t even know. For the sake of Jesus, Your Son and our Savior, forgive our sins, and create new hearts in us, better able to serve and love our neighbors.
V: Because Jesus Christ allowed Himself to be sacrificed for you, the perfect Lamb without sin, taking your punishment the law requires. By His grace, you belong to Him! Be free, free from sin’s control, free from all guilt, free to bear fruit for your neighbor, to God’s glory! You are forgiven & freed, in the Name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C: Amen.
Sit
Old Testament Reading Jeremiah 28:5-9
Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord, and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles. Yet hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”
V: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Epistle Reading Romans 7:1-13
Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.
Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
V: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.
Stand
Holy Gospel Matthew 10:34-42
V: The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the 10th chapter.
C: Glory to You, O Lord.
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
V: This is the Word of the Lord.
C: Praise to You, O Christ.
Sit
Song: God With Us
Sermon
Stand
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.
Prayers of the Church
The Sacrament of the Altar
V: The Lord be with you.
C: and also with you.
V: Lift up your hearts!
C: we lift them to the Lord!
V: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.
C: it is right to give Him thanks and praise.
V: Heavenly Father, we give You thanks for sending Your Son, Jesus Christ, the perfect Lamb, to take away our sins all the sin of the whole world. Prepare us now, to eat His body and drink His blood faithfully, and to receive Your gifts of forgiveness, life, and salvation. Keep us in true faith until You return in glory on the last day.
C: Amen
Words of Institution
V: As often as we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes.
C: Amen! Come, Lord Jesus.
V: O Lord Jesus Christ, remember us in Your kingdom and teach us to pray:
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.
V: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
C: Amen
Communion Distribution
Communion Dismissal
V: This body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen and keep you in the one true faith to life everlasting. Depart in peace.
C: Amen
Post-Communion Prayer
V: Let us pray….
C: Amen.
Benediction
Sit
Announcements
Closing Song: Salvation Belongs to Our God
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