Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
Deuteronomy 7:1–26
1“When
the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to
take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the
Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more
numerous and mightier than yourselves, 2and when the Lord
your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must
devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with
them and show no mercy to them. 3You shall not intermarry
with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their
daughters for your sons, 4for they would turn away your
sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the
Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
5But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down
their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their
Asherim and burn their carved images with fire.
6“For
you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has
chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all
the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7It was not
because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord
set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all
peoples, 8but it is because the Lord loves you and is
keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has
brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of
slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
9Know
therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps
covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his
commandments, to a thousand generations.
10and
repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will
not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
11You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and
the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
12“And
because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your
God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love that he
swore to your fathers. 13He will love you, bless you, and
multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit
of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase
of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore
to your fathers to give you. 14You shall be blessed above
all peoples. There shall not be male or female barren among you or
among your livestock. 15And the Lord will take away from
you all sickness, and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which you
knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate
you. 16And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord
your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither
shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
17“If
you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I
dispossess them?’ 18you shall not be afraid of them but
you shall remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all
Egypt, 19the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs,
the wonders, the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which the
Lord your God brought you out. So will the Lord your God do to all
the peoples of whom you are afraid. 20Moreover, the Lord
your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and
hide themselves from you are destroyed. 21You shall not be
in dread of them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and
awesome God. 22The Lord your God will clear away these
nations before you little by little. You may not make an end of them
at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you. 23But
the Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into
great confusion, until they are destroyed. 24And he will
give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish
from under heaven. No one shall be able to stand against you until
you have destroyed them. 25The carved images of their gods
you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold
that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by
it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26And
you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become
devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor
it, for it is devoted to destruction.
Collect
Almighty
and gracious God, You want all to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth. Magnify the power of the Gospel in the hearts
of Your faithful people that Your Church may spread the good news of
salvation. Protect, encourage, and bless all missionaries who
proclaim the saving cross that Christ, being lifted up, may draw all
people to Himself, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and forever.
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Church of God, Elect and Glorious Improvsation
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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 Sixth
Commandment
You
shall not commit adultery.
What
does this mean?
We
should fear and love God so that we lead a sexually pure and decent
life in what we say and do, and husband and wife love and honor each
other.
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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