Invocation
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In the name of the Father and of the T
Son and of the Holy Spirit.
C
Amen.
Collect
Visit, O
Lord, the homes in which Your people dwell, and keep all harm and
danger far from them. Grant that we may dwell together in peace under
the protection of Your holy angels, sharing eternally in Your
blessings; through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Reading Genesis
Biblical
Heros? What should we say about Abraham as a biblical hero or example
for us to emulate?
Sarah and
Hagar
God
fulfills His promise from Chapters 12, 15, 17, and 18 that he and
Sarah will have a son, it is from Isaac that the Christ is going to
come.
Reading Genesis
20:1—21:34
From there
Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between
Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah
his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent
and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and
said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom
you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.” Now Abimelech had not
approached her. So he said, “Lord, will you kill an innocent
people? Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she
herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart
and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” Then God said to
him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the
integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning
against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. Now then, return
the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you,
and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall
surely die, you, and all who are yours.”
So
Abimelech rose early in the morning and called all his servants and
told them all these things. And the men were very much afraid. Then
Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to
us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me
and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not
to be done.” And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see,
that you did this thing?” Abraham said, “I did it because I
thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will
kill me because of my wife. Besides, she is indeed my sister, the
daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she
became my wife. And when God caused me to wander from my father’s
house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at
every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.’”
Then
Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants,
and gave them to Abraham, and returned Sarah his wife to him. And
Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; dwell where it
pleases you.” To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your
brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is a sign of your innocence
in the eyes of all who are with you, and before everyone you are
vindicated.” Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech,
and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore
children. For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of
Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
The Lord
visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had
promised. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age
at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name
of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. And
Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God
had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac
was born to him. And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me;
everyone who hears will laugh over me.” And she said, “Who would
have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have
borne him a son in his old age.”
And the
child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day
that Isaac was weaned. But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing. So she said to Abraham,
“Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave
woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.” And the thing was very
displeasing to Abraham on account of his son. But God said to
Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your
slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for
through Isaac shall your offspring be named. And I will make a nation
of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of
water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with
the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the
wilderness of Beersheba.
When the
water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the
bushes. Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about
the distance of a bowshot, for she said, “Let me not look on the
death of the child.” And as she sat opposite him, she lifted up her
voice and wept. And God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of
God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles
you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he
is. Up! Lift up the boy, and hold him fast with your hand, for I will
make him into a great nation.” Then God opened her eyes, and she
saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and
gave the boy a drink. And God was with the boy, and he grew up. He
lived in the wilderness and became an expert with the bow. He lived
in the wilderness of Paran, and his mother took a wife for him from
the land of Egypt.
At that
time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham,
“God is with you in all that you do. Now therefore swear to me here
by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants
or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you
will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.” And
Abraham said, “I will swear.”
When
Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech’s
servants had seized, Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done
this thing; you did not tell me, and I have not heard of it until
today.” So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech,
and the two men made a covenant. Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the
flock apart. And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What is the meaning of
these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?” He said, “These
seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a
witness for me that I dug this well.” Therefore that place was
called Beersheba, because there both of them swore an oath. So they
made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander
of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the
name of the Lord, the Everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned many
days in the land of the Philistines.
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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
Close of the Commandments
What
does God say about all these commandments?
He says:
"I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children
for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of
those who hate Me, but showing love to a thousand generations of
those who love Me and keep My commandments." (Exodus 20:5–6)
What
does this mean?
God
threatens to punish all who break these commandments. Therefore, we
should fear His wrath and not do anything against them. But He
promises grace and every blessing to all who keep these commandments.
Therefore, we should also love and trust in Him and gladly do what He
commands.
Luther's
Morning Prayer
C
I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ,
Your dear Son, that You have kept me this night from all harm and
danger; and I pray that You would keep me this day also from sin and
every evil, that all my doings and life may please You. For into Your
hands I commend myself, my body and soul, and all things. Let Your
holy angel be with me, that the evil foe may have no power over me.
Amen.
Luther's
Evening Prayer
C
I thank You, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ,
Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept me this day; and I pray
that You would forgive me all my sins where I have done wrong, and
graciously keep me this night. For into Your hands I commend myself,
my body and soul, and all things. Let Your holy angel be with me,
that the evil foe may have no power over me. 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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