Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Reading
Deuteronomy 11:1—12:32
1“You
shall therefore love the Lord your God and keep his charge, his
statutes, his rules, and his commandments always. 2And
consider today (since I am not speaking to your children who have not
known or seen it), consider the discipline of the Lord your God, his
greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm, 3his
signs and his deeds that he did in Egypt to Pharaoh the king of Egypt
and to all his land, 4and what he did to the army of
Egypt, to their horses and to their chariots, how he made the water
of the Red Sea flow over them as they pursued after you, and how the
Lord has destroyed them to this day, 5and what he did to
you in the wilderness, until you came to this place, 6and
what he did to Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, son of Reuben,
how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their
households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them,
in the midst of all Israel. 7For your eyes have seen all
the great work of the Lord that he did.
8“You
shall therefore keep the whole commandment that I command you today,
that you may be strong, and go in and take possession of the land
that you are going over to possess, 9and that you may live
long in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give to them
and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. 10For
the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like
the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your
seed and irrigated it, like a garden of vegetables. 11But
the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and
valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12a
land that the Lord your God cares for. The eyes of the Lord your God
are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the
year.
13“And
if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to
love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with
all your soul, 14he will give the rain for your land in
its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in
your grain and your wine and your oil. 15And he will give
grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be
full. 16Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you
turn aside and serve other gods and worship them; 17then
the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut
up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will
yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that
the Lord is giving you.
18“You
shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your
soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall
be as frontlets between your eyes. 19You shall teach them
to your children, talking of them when you are sitting in your house,
and when you are walking by the way, and when you lie down, and when
you rise. 20You shall write them on the doorposts of your
house and on your gates, 21that your days and the days of
your children may be multiplied in the land that the Lord swore to
your fathers to give them, as long as the heavens are above the
earth. 22For if you will be careful to do all this
commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God,
walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, 23then
the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will
dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. 24Every
place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your
territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the
River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea. 25No one
shall be able to stand against you. The Lord your God will lay the
fear of you and the dread of you on all the land that you shall
tread, as he promised you.
26“See,
I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27the
blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I
command you today, 28and the curse, if you do not obey the
commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way that I
am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not
known. 29And when the Lord your God brings you into the
land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set
the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. 30Are
they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down
of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah,
opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh? 31For you are to
cross over the Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that
the Lord your God is giving you. And when you possess it and live in
it, 32you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the
rules that I am setting before you today.
1“These
are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the
land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to
possess, all the days that you live on the earth. 2You
shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall
dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills
and under every green tree. 3You shall tear down their
altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with
fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy
their name out of that place. 4You shall not worship the
Lord your God in that way. 5But you shall seek the place
that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his
name and make his habitation there. There you shall go, 6and
there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your
tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings,
your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your
flock. 7And there you shall eat before the Lord your God,
and you shall rejoice, you and your households, in all that you
undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.
8“You
shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone
doing whatever is right in his own eyes, 9for you have not
as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God
is giving you. 10But when you go over the Jordan and live
in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and when
he gives you rest from all your enemies around, so that you live in
safety, 11then to the place that the Lord your God will
choose, to make his name dwell there, there you shall bring all that
I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes
and the contribution that you present, and all your finest vow
offerings that you vow to the Lord. 12And you shall
rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your
daughters, your male servants and your female servants, and the
Levite that is within your towns, since he has no portion or
inheritance with you. 13Take care that you do not offer
your burnt offerings at any place that you see, 14but at
the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you
shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I
am commanding you.
15“However,
you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as
you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he
has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the
gazelle and as of the deer. 16Only you shall not eat the
blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water. 17You
may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain or of your wine
or of your oil, or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock, or
any of your vow offerings that you vow, or your freewill offerings or
the contribution that you present, 18but you shall eat
them before the Lord your God in the place that the Lord your God
will choose, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant
and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your towns. And
you shall rejoice before the Lord your God in all that you undertake.
19Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as
you live in your land.
20“When
the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you,
and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may
eat meat whenever you desire. 21If the place that the Lord
your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, then
you may kill any of your herd or your flock, which the Lord has given
you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your towns
whenever you desire. 22Just as the gazelle or the deer is
eaten, so you may eat of it. The unclean and the clean alike may eat
of it. 23Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for
the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth
like water. 25You shall not eat it, that all may go well
with you and with your children after you, when you do what is right
in the sight of the Lord. 26But the holy things that are
due from you, and your vow offerings, you shall take, and you shall
go to the place that the Lord will choose, 27and offer
your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the
Lord your God. The blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on
the altar of the Lord your God, but the flesh you may eat. 28Be
careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go
well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do
what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.
29“When
the Lord your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to
dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, 30take
care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been
destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods,
saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may
do the same.’ 31You shall not worship the Lord your God
in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have
done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their
daughters in the fire to their gods.
32
“Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. You
shall not add to it or take from it.
Collect
Lord,
I love the habitation of Your house and the place where Your glory
dwells. In the multitude of Your tender mercies prepare my heart that
I may enter Your house to worship and confess Your holy name; through
Jesus Christ, my God and Lord.
977 I
Will Sing My Maker's Praises Music
5 Since
there’s neither change nor coldness
In God’s love that on me smiled,
I now lift my hands in boldness,
Coming to You as Your child.
Grant me grace, O God, I pray You,
That I may with all my might,
All my lifetime, day and night,
Love and trust You and obey You
And, when this brief life is o’er,
Praise and love You evermore.
In God’s love that on me smiled,
I now lift my hands in boldness,
Coming to You as Your child.
Grant me grace, O God, I pray You,
That I may with all my might,
All my lifetime, day and night,
Love and trust You and obey You
And, when this brief life is o’er,
Praise and love You evermore.
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The Ninth
Commandment
You
shall not covet your neighbor's house.
What
does this mean?
We
should fear and love God so that we do not scheme to get our
neighbor's inheritance or house, or get it in a way which only
appears right, but help and be of service to him in keeping it.
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.
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.
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by Lutheran Service Builder © 2006 Concordia Publishing House.
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