Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
June 28, 2020
WELCOME! We extend a cordial welcome to everyone visiting with us today. We pray that you find strength for the coming week during this time spent in the presence of your Lord. Please sign our guest book, introduce yourself to the pastor before you leave today, and come again.
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FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
June 28, 2020
Liturgy: Matins (pages219-228)
Hymns: #648, #664, #918
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THE PSALM Psalm 119:153-160 (ESV)
Pastor: Look on my affliction and de / liver me,
for I do not for / get Your Law.
Congregation:PLEAD MY CAUSE AND RE / DEEM ME;
GIVE ME LIFE ACCORDING TO YOUR / PROMISE!
Pastor: Salvation is far from the / wicked,
for they do not seek Your / statutes.
Congregation:GREAT IS YOUR MERCY, / O LORD;
GIVE ME LIFE ACCORDING TO YOUR / JUST DECREES.
Pastor: Many are my persecutors and my adver / saries,
but I do not swerve from Your testi / monies.
Congregation:I LOOK AT THE FAITHLESS / WITH DISGUST,
BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KEEP / YOUR COMMANDS.
Pastor: Consider how I love Your / precepts!
Give me life according to Your / steadfast love.
Congregation:THE SUM OF YOUR / WORD IS TRUTH,
AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR RIGHTEOUS DECREES ENDURES FOR / EVER.
ALL: GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND / TO THE SON
AND TO THE HOLY / SPIRIT;
AS IT WAS IN THE BE / GINNING,
IS NOW, AND WILL BE FOREVER. / AMEN.
COLLECT OF THE DAY
Pastor: Almighty God, by the working of Your Holy Spirit, grant that we may gladly hear Your Word proclaimed among us and follow its directing; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Congregation: AMEN.
THE OLD TESTAMENT READING Jeremiah 28:5-9 (ESV)
Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to Hananiah the prophet in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house of the Lord, and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the Lord do so; may the Lord make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the exiles. Yet hear now this Word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people. The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great kingdoms. As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes to pass, then it will be known that the Lord has truly sent the prophet.”
THE EPISTLE Romans 7:1-13 (ESV)
Do you not know, brothers--for I am speaking to those who know the Law--that the Law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to Another, to Him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the Law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the Law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the New Life of the Spirit. What then shall we say? That the Law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the Law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. Apart from the Law, sin lies dead. I was once alive apart from the Law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
THE HOLY GOSPEL Matthew 10:34-42 (ESV)
[Jesus said:] “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Whoever receives you receives Me, and whoever receives Me receives Him who sent Me. The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
* * *ANNOUNCEMENTS * * *
ALTAR FLOWERS have been placed to the glory of God.
VICAR Donn Woolweber will be installed at Zion Lutheran Church on SUNDAY, JULY 12 at 3:00 p.m. Plan to come and meet Donn and Debbie, as they will be very involved with the Tri-Parish events. He will be Bethel’s preacher on non-communion Sundays, (2nd and 4th Sunday of the month).
THANK YOU to all the people who gave up their time to get the house ready for Vicar Donn and Debbi.
THE LITKE’S NEW ADDRESS– 5926 Vance Avenue, Fort Wayne, IN 46815.
JULY CALENDAR can be picked up in the narthex.