Invocation
P In
the name of the Father and of the T Son
and of the Holy Spirit.
C Amen.
Collect
Almighty
and gracious God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, You have
commanded us to pray that You would send forth laborers into Your
harvest. Of Your infinite mercy give us true teachers and ministers
of Your Word who truly fulfill Your command and preach nothing
contrary to Your holy Word. Grant that we, being warned, instructed,
nurtured, comforted, and strengthened by Your holy Word, may do those
things which are well pleasing to You and profitable for our
salvation; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Reading
the Bible
Reading
Exodus
Reading
Exodus 3:1—4:31
Now
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest
of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness
and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He
looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the
bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see,
God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said,
“Here I am.” Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals
off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy
ground.” And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his
face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Then
the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who
are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I
know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of
the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a
good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place
of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites. And now, behold, the cry of the people of
Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which
the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you
may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But
Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring
the children of Israel out of Egypt?” He said, “But I will be
with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you:
when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on
this mountain.”
Then
Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to
them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask
me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to
Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of
Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
God
also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The Lord,
the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and
thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.”
Go
and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The
Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of
Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what
has been done to you in Egypt, and I promise that I will bring you up
out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the
Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’ And they will
listen to your voice, and you and the elders of Israel shall go to
the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the
Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days’
journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our
God.’ But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless
compelled by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out my hand and strike
Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will
let you go. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, but each woman
shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for
silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your
sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”
Then
Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to
my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’”
The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A
staff.” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it
on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. But
the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the
tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff
in his hand— “that they may believe that the Lord, the God of
their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, has appeared to you.” Again, the Lord said to him, “Put
your hand inside your cloak.” And he put his hand inside his cloak,
and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow. Then
God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his
hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was
restored like the rest of his flesh. “If they will not believe
you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe
the latter sign. If they will not believe even these two signs or
listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and
pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the
Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”
But
Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in
the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of
speech and of tongue.” Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made
man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is
it not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth
and teach you what you shall speak.” But he said, “Oh, my Lord,
please send someone else.” Then the anger of the Lord was kindled
against Moses and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the
Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to
meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. You
shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with
your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. He
shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and
you shall be as God to him. And take in your hand this staff, with
which you shall do the signs.”
Moses
went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let
me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still
alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.” And the Lord
said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who
were seeking your life are dead.” So Moses took his wife and his
sons and had them ride on a donkey, and went back to the land of
Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his hand.
And
the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do
before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I
will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. Then
you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my
firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that he may serve
me.” If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your
firstborn son.’”
At
a lodging place on the way the Lord met him and sought to put him to
death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin
and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a
bridegroom of blood to me!” So he let him alone. It was then that
she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision.
The
Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he
went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. And Moses
told Aaron all the words of the Lord with which he had sent him to
speak, and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. Then Moses
and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of
Israel. Aaron spoke all the words that the Lord had spoken to Moses
and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people
believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of
Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads
and worshiped.
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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.
Confession
What
is Confession?
Confession
has two parts. First, that we confess our sins, and second, that we
receive absolution, that is, forgiveness, from the pastor as from God
Himself, not doubting, but firmly believing that by it our sins are
forgiven before God in heaven.
What
sins should we confess?
Before
God we should plead guilty of all sins, even those we are not aware
of, as we do in the Lord's Prayer; but before the pastor we should
confess only those sins which we know and feel in our hearts.
Which
are these?
Consider
your place in life according to the Ten Commandments. Are you a
father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, or worker? Have you
been disobedient, unfaithful, or lazy? Have you been hot-tempered,
rude, or quarrelsome? Have you hurt someone by your words or deeds?
Have you stolen, been negligent, wasted anything, or done any harm?
What
is the Office of the Keys?
The
Office of the Keys is that special authority which Christ has given
to His Church on earth to forgive the sins of repentant sinners, but
to withhold forgiveness from the unrepentant as long as they do not
repent.
Where
is this written?
This
is what St. John the Evangelist writes in chapter twenty: The Lord
Jesus breathed on His disciples and said, "Receive the Holy
Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do
not forgive them, they are not forgiven." (John 20:22–23)
What
do you believe according to these words?
I
believe that when the called ministers of Christ deal with us by His
divine command, in particular when they exclude openly unrepentant
sinners from the Christian congregation and absolve those who repent
of their sins and want to do better, this is just as valid and
certain, even in heaven, as if Christ our dear Lord dealt with us
Himself.
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
(Pauline)
P The
grace of the Lord T Jesus Christ and
the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you
all.
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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