Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
Deuteronomy 1:1–46
1These
are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the
wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel,
Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 2It is eleven days’
journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea. 3In
the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses
spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had
given him in commandment to them, 4after he had defeated
Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king
of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei. 5Beyond
the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law,
saying, 6“The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, ‘You
have stayed long enough at this mountain. 7Turn and take
your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all
their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland
and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and
Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. 8See,
I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land
that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’
9“At
that time I said to you, ‘I am not able to bear you by myself.
10The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you
are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. 11May the
Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as
you are and bless you, as he has promised you! 12How can I
bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife? 13Choose
for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will
appoint them as your heads.’ 14And you answered me, ‘The
thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ 15So I
took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them
as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds,
commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout
your tribes. 16And I charged your judges at that time,
‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously
between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. 17You
shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the
great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment
is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to
me, and I will hear it.’ 18And I commanded you at that
time all the things that you should do.
19“Then
we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying
wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the
Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And we came to
Kadesh-barnea. 20And I said to you, ‘You have come to
the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving
us. 21See, the Lord your God has set the land before you.
Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has
told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’ 22Then all of you
came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may
explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which
we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’ 23The
thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from
each tribe. 24And they turned and went up into the hill
country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out. 25And
they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it
down to us, and brought us word again and said, ‘It is a good land
that the Lord our God is giving us.’
26“Yet
you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord
your God. 27And you murmured in your tents and said,
‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of
Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
28Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts
melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we. The
cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have
seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’ 29Then I said to
you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. 30The Lord
your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he
did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 31and in the
wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as
a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to
this place.’ 32Yet in spite of this word you did not
believe the Lord your God, 33who went before you in the
way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and
in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.
34“And
the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, 35‘Not
one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that
I swore to give to your fathers, 36except Caleb the son of
Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will
give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed
the Lord!’ 37Even with me the Lord was angry on your
account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there. 38Joshua
the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him,
for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39And as for your
little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who
today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And
to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. 40But
as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of
the Red Sea.’
41“Then
you answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves
will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And
every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy
to go up into the hill country. 42And the Lord said to me,
‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst,
lest you be defeated before your enemies.’ 43So I spoke
to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the
command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
44Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came
out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir
as far as Hormah. 45And you returned and wept before the
Lord, but the Lord did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.
46So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you
remained there.
Collect
Lord
God, heavenly Father, in Holy Baptism You began Your good work in our
catechumens, and You have blessed their instruction and training in
Your Word. We implore You to pour out Your Holy Spirit on their
hearts and minds so that they will truly love and revere You, confess
the faith with joy and boldness, endeavor to live according to Your
commandments, and praise and glorify You as their faithful God and
Lord, for the sake of Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
459
Christ Is Arisen Guitar Smooth Rock Version Organ Improvisation Organ Choral
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1969 Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission: LSB Hymn License
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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
Commandment
You
shall have no other gods.
What
does this mean?
We
should fear, love, and trust in God above all things.
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.
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