Divine Service, Setting Four

Hymn “Salvation unto Us Has Come”

Hymn 555, v. 1,2,5 & 6

Baptism of Stormee Lee Harra (10:30 service)

Invocation and Confession (left column)                       page 203

Introit

Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love,

     for they have been from of old.

You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!

     He is their help and their shield.

The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;

     he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron;

he will bless those who fear the Lord, both the small and the great.

We will bless the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. Praise the Lord!

Kyrie           page 204

Salutation and Collect of the Day

The Lord be with you.

And also with you.

Let us pray. O God, You see that of ourselves we have no strength. By Your mighty power defend us from all adversities that may happen to the body and from all evil thoughts that may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

Amen.

Children’s Talk

Old Testament Genesis 17:1–7, 15–16

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. . . .

      And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.”

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Psalmody Psalm 22:22–31

I will tell of your name to my brothers;
      in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:

You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
     and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him,
     but has heard, when he cried to him.
From you comes my praise in the great congregation;
     my vows I will perform before those who fear him.
The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
     May your hearts live forever!
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord,
     and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
     before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.
Posterity shall serve him;
     it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation;
they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn,
     that he has done it.

Epistle Romans 5:1–11

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Verse (The Alleluia is omitted during Lent)           page 204

Holy Gospel  Mark 8:27–38

The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the eighth chapter.

Glory to You, O Lord.

Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.” And he strictly charged them to tell no one about him.

      And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”

      And he called to him the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

This is the Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to You, O Christ.

Apostles’ Creed

Hymn of the Day Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart         Hymn 708

Sermon

Prayer of the Church

Offering and Lord’s Prayer

Closing Hymn Chief of Sinners though I Be         Hymn 611