Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
Deuteronomy 18:1—19:21
1“The
Levitical priests, all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or
inheritance with Israel. They shall eat the Lord’s food offerings
as their inheritance. 2They shall have no inheritance
among their brothers; the Lord is their inheritance, as he promised
them. 3And this shall be the priests’ due from the
people, from those offering a sacrifice, whether an ox or a sheep:
they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the
stomach. 4The firstfruits of your grain, of your wine and
of your oil, and the first fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.
5For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your
tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his
sons for all time.
6“And
if a Levite comes from any of your towns out of all Israel, where he
lives—and he may come when he desires—to the place that the Lord
will choose, 7and ministers in the name of the Lord his
God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before
the Lord, 8then he may have equal portions to eat, besides
what he receives from the sale of his patrimony.
9“When
you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you
shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations.
10There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his
son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination
or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer 11or
a charmer or a medium or a wizard or a necromancer, 12for
whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because
of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before
you. 13You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,
14for these nations, which you are about to dispossess,
listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the Lord
your God has not allowed you to do this.
15“The
Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you,
from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16just
as you desired of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the
assembly, when you said, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the
Lord my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.’ 17And
the Lord said to me, ‘They are right in what they have spoken. 18I
will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers.
And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all
that I command him. 19And whoever will not listen to my
words that he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of
him.
20But
the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not
commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that
same prophet shall die.”
21And
if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord
has not spoken?’— 22when a prophet speaks in the name
of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is
a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
1“When
the Lord your God cuts off the nations whose land the Lord your God
is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and
in their houses, 2you shall set apart three cities for
yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to
possess. 3You shall measure the distances and divide into
three parts the area of the land that the Lord your God gives you as
a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.
4“This
is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his
life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having
hated him in the past— 5as when someone goes into the
forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to
cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his
neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and
live, 6lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the
manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him
fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not
hated his neighbor in the past. 7Therefore I command you,
You shall set apart three cities. 8And if the Lord your
God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and
gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers—
9provided you are careful to keep all this commandment,
which I command you today, by loving the Lord your God and by walking
ever in his ways—then you shall add three other cities to these
three, 10lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the
Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of
bloodshed be upon you.
11“But
if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him
and strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of
these cities, 12then the elders of his city shall send and
take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so
that he may die. 13Your eye shall not pity him, but you
shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may
be well with you.
14“You
shall not move your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have
set, in the inheritance that you will hold in the land that the Lord
your God is giving you to possess.
15“A
single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or
for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed.
Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of three witnesses shall a
charge be established. 16If a malicious witness arises to
accuse a person of wrongdoing, 17then both parties to the
dispute shall appear before the Lord, before the priests and the
judges who are in office in those days. 18The judges shall
inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has
accused his brother falsely, 19then you shall do to him as
he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from
your midst. 20And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall
never again commit any such evil among you. 21Your eye
shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Collect
Lord
God, heavenly Father, through the prophet Moses, You began the
prophetic pattern of teaching Your people the true faith and
demonstrating through miracles Your presence in creation to heal it
of its brokenness. Grant that Your Church may see in Your Son, our
Lord Jesus Christ, the final end-times prophet whose teaching and
miracles continue in Your Church through the healing medicine of the
Gospel and the Sacraments; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
583 God
Has Spoken by His Prophets Hymn
©
1953, renewed 1981 The Hymn Society; admin. Hope Publishing Co. Used
by permission: LSB Hymn License .NET, no. 100011178.
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.
The First
Article
Creation
I
believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.
What
does this mean?
I
believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me
my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all
my senses, and still takes care of them.
He
also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home,
wife and children, land, animals, and all I have. He richly and daily
provides me with all that I need to support this body and life.
He
defends me against all danger and guards and protects me from all
evil. All this He does only out of fatherly, divine goodness and
mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my
duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him.
This is most certainly true.
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.
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
(Aaronic)
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.
Acknowledgments
Unless
otherwise indicated, all scripture quotations are from The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway
Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All
rights reserved.
Created
by Lutheran Service Builder © 2006 Concordia Publishing House.
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