LOVE FOR GOD'S GLORY First Sunday after Pentecost - The Holy Trinity June 7, 2020 REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | Tucson, Arizona

SEASON OF PENTECOST The focus of our attention during the three great festivals of the church - Christmas, Easter and Pentecost - is the life of Christ. With his ascension into heaven and his sending of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the focus of our lessons and services makes a decided turn. From now until Advent, the focus of our worship services assumes we believe in Christ, and therefore now focuses on the life of the Christian.

FIRST SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST - THE HOLY TRINITY Jesus prayed, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3). Today the Christian Church honors the true God, who reveals himself to us as a Triune God. Triune comes from the Latin Tri (three) and unus (one). God is triune because he is three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but only one God. Common to the lessons on Trinity Sunday are the interoperation of all three persons of the godhead. It was all three persons of the Trinity who were involved in the work of creation. While Jesus provides salvation through his death and resurrection, it was the Father who sent him into the world, and the Holy Spirit who persuades us to believe in him through the Word. We baptize in the name of all three persons of the Trinity, and we are also blessed (grace, love and fellowship) by all three persons of the Trinity. It is true that we speak frequently and glowingly about the work of Jesus. Yet it is the collective work of all three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - who deserve our praise! God bless your worship of the only true God.

OFFERING If you are here in person, you may place your offering in the one of the plates located in the entryway. To give an offering electronically, visit redeemertucson.com/offering and click the “giving” button or you may mail your regular offering to Redeemer Lutheran Church 8845 N Silverbell Rd Tucson, 85743.

SERVING IN WORSHIP

Presiding Minister Pastor Adam Mueller Organist/Pianist Leah Clark Cantor Michael Peek Ushers 8:00am: Charlie Weinstein 10:45am: Brian & Tanner Rozon, Mark Lange Media Technicians 8:00am: Leigh Webster; 10:45 – Volunteer needed Flowers The flowers on the altar were given to the Glory of God by Martin & Pam Hansen in celebration of their 46th wedding anniversary.

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Greeting and welcome.

OPENING HYMN Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty | 195

Please stand.

3 INVOCATION1

M: In the name of the Father and of the Son ✠ and of the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen.

CONFESSION OF SINS

M: Dear friends, let us approach God with a true heart and confess our sins, asking him in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive us.

C: Lord of life, I confess that I am by nature dead in sin. For faithless worrying and selfish pride, For sins of habit and sins of choice, For the evil I have done and the good I have failed to do, You should cast me away from your presence forever. O Lord, I am sorry for my sins. Forgive me, for Jesus’ sake.

ABSOLUTION2

M: Christ was born. Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. In his great mercy, God made us alive in Christ even when we were dead in our sins. Hear the word of Christ through his called servant:

I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son ✠ and of the Holy Spirit.

C: Amen.

1The name of the triune God and the sign of the cross remind worshipers of their baptisms.

2 The use of the keys is that special power and right which Christ gave to his church on earth: to forgive the sins of penitent sinners” [The Small Catechism, First: What is the use of the keys?]. See John 20:21-23.

4 LORD, HAVE MERCY Kyrie3 Mark 10:47

M: In peace, let us pray to the Lord. For the well-being of all people everywhere, that they may receive from you all they need to sustain body and life, hear our prayer, O Lord.

C: Lord, have mercy.

M: For the spread of your life-giving gospel throughout the world, that all who are lost in sin may be brought to faith in you, hear our prayer, O Christ.

C: Christ, have mercy.

M: For patience and perseverance in this life, that we may not lose the hope of heaven as we await your return, hear our prayer, O Lord.

C: Lord, have mercy.

M: Lord of life, live in us that we may live for you.

C: Amen.

3 Kyrie is the Greek word for Lord. The expression “Lord, have mercy” is one of the oldest worship responses in the Christian church.

5 GLORY BE TO GOD Gloria in Excelsis4 Luke 2:14

The Word

SALUTATION5

M: The Lord be with you.

C: And also with you.

4 Christians praise God by proclaiming the great things he has done to accomplish our rescue from sin. “Glory to God in the Highest” has been a Christian song of worship since the fourth century.

5 This greeting has deep roots in Christian worship and marks the beginning of the Word section and the Sacrament section the service.

6 PRAYER OF THE DAY

M: Let us pray. Almighty God and Father, dwelling in majesty and mystery, filling and renewing all creation by your eternal Spirit, and manifesting your saving grace through our Lord Jesus Christ: in mercy cleanse our hearts and lips that, free from doubt and fear, we may ever worship you, one true immortal God, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, living and reigning, now and forever.

C: Amen.

Please be seated.

FIRST READING Genesis 1:1-2:3 The triune God created the world.

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. 6 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. 14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the

7 night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. 24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

M: The Word of the Lord.

C: Thanks be to God.

8 PSALM OF THE DAY Psalm 8 Cantor will sing first refrain and verses. Congregation will repeat refrain, those that follow and Gloria.

O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!* You have set your glory above the heavens.

When I consider your heavens,* the work of your fingers,

what is man that you are mindful of him,* the Son of Man that you care for him? Refrain

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings* and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;* you put everything under his feet.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son* and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,* is now, and will be forever. Amen. Refrain

SECOND READING 2 Corinthians 13:11-14 Unity in the Trinity. 11 Finally, brothers, good-by. Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All the saints send their greetings. 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

M: The Word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God.

9 Please stand.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Isaiah 6:3b The Gospel Acclamation is sung to the tune of Hymn 183, “Holy Spirit, Light Divine”.

♫ Holy, holy, holy God, Lord Almighty, we are awed! All the earth your glory fills, All our deepest yearnings stills.

GOSPEL Matthew 28:16-20 Baptized in the name of the triune God.

16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

M: The Gospel of the Lord.

C: Thanks be to God.

Please be seated.

THE ATHANASIAN CREED6 CW pp. 132-133 Part 1 of The Athanasian Creed will be read by the presiding minister.

6 This creed is named after St. Athanasius, a staunch defender of the Christian faith in the fourth century. It was prepared to assist the Church in combating two errors that undermined Bible teaching. One error denied that God’s Son and the Holy Spirit are of one being or Godhead with the Father. The other error denied that Jesus Christ is true God and true man in one person. The Athanasian Creed continues to serve the Christian Church as a standard of the truth. It declares that whoever rejects the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of Christ is without saving faith.

10 HYMN OF THE DAY7 Alleluia! Let Praises Ring | 241

7 The Hymn of the Day is assigned to this day because of its rich content and connection to the day’s Gospel.

11 SERMON Exodus 20:1-6

1 And God spoke all these words: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 3 “You shall have no other gods before me. 4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for 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, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.

“A Jealous God”

Please stand.

THE ATHANASIAN CREED8 Part 2 of The Athanasian Creed will be read responsively as noted below.

M: It is furthermore necessary for eternal salvation truly to believe that our Lord Jesus Christ also took on human flesh. Now this is the true Christian faith:

C: We believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son, is both God and man.

M: He is God, eternally begotten from the nature of the Father, and he is man, born in time from the nature of his mother, fully God, fully man, with rational soul and human flesh,

C: equal to the Father as to his deity, less than the Father as to his humanity;

M: and though he is both God and man, Christ is not two persons but one,

C: one, not by changing the deity into flesh, but by taking the humanity into God;

M: one, indeed, not by mixture of the natures, but by unity in one person;

C: for just as the rational soul and flesh are one human being, so God and man are one Christ.

M: He suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, rose the third day from the dead.

8 The section of the Athanasian Creed included here is the portion that confesses the Bible’s teaching about the Triune God. This portion serves as a very fitting confession of faith for Trinity Sunday. A translation of the entire text of the Athanasian Creed may be found on pages 132-133 in Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal.

12 C: He ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty, and from there will come to judge the living and the dead.

M: At his coming all people will rise with their own bodies to answer for their personal deeds.

C: Those who have done good will enter eternal life, but those who have done evil will go into eternal fire.

M: This is the true Christian faith.

C: Whoever does not faithfully and firmly believe this cannot be saved.

Please be seated.

PRAYER OF THE CHURCH

Please stand.

The Sacrament

PREFACE9

M: The Lord be with you.

C: And also with you.

M: Lift up your hearts.

C: We lift them up to the Lord.

M: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

C: It is good and right so to do.

M: It is truly good and right that we should at all times and in all places give you thanks, O Lord, holy Father, almighty and everlasting God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, and now we confess that you, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, are one God and one Lord, and we acknowledge you as our Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier. Therefore, with all the saints on earth and hosts of heaven, we praise your holy name and join their glorious song:

9 The words of the Preface mark the beginning of the Sacrament section of the service and lift the worshipers’ hearts in praise. The opening sentences are among the most ancient in Christian worship.

13 HOLY, HOLY, HOLY Sanctus10 Isaiah 6:3, Matthew 21:9

PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING11

M: Blessed are you, O Lord of heaven and earth. We praise and thank you for sending your Son, Jesus Christ, and we remember the great acts of love through which he has ransomed us from sin, death, and the devil’s power.

By his incarnation, he became one with us. By his perfect life, he fulfilled your holy will. By his innocent death, he overcame hell. By his rising from the grave, he opened heaven.

10 Sanctus means “holy.” Used as early as the second century, this canticle was in wide use among Christians in worship by the fourteenth century.

11 Jesus took bread and gave thanks (Matthew 26:26).

14 Invited by your grace and instructed by your Word, we approach your table with repentant and joyful hearts. Strengthen us through Christ’s body and blood, and preserve us in the true faith until we feast with him and all his ransomed people in glory everlasting.

C: Amen.

LORD’S PRAYER Matthew 6:9-13

Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and forever. Amen.

WORDS OF INSTITUTION Matthew 26:26-28 1 Corinthians 11:24-25

M: Our Lord Jesus Christ, on the night he was betrayed, took bread; and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my ✠ body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Then he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; this is my ✠ blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for you for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

The peace of the Lord be with you always.

C: Amen.

15 LAMB OF GOD Agnus Dei12 John 1:29

Please be seated.

12 Jesus is God’s Lamb (Agnus Dei), who was offered as a sacrifice for sin once for all.

16 DISTRIBUTION13

In order to maintain personal distancing and to provide extra safety measures, distribution of the Lord’s Supper will be a continuous distribution. Please follow the direction of the ushers. In keeping with the Bible's teaching on Holy Communion, Redeemer celebrates the sacrament with her members and those who belong to her church body, the WELS. If you are not yet a member of Redeemer or WELS, please speak with our pastor before communing.

Please stand.

SONG OF SIMEON Nunc Dimittis14 Luke 2:29-32

13 The Scriptures teach that the celebration of the Lord’s Supper connects us intimately with Christ and with one another as Christians who are united around a common confession of faith.

14 The Nunc Dimittis (“Now dismiss”) is also known as the “Song of Simeon.” Through God’s Word and Sacrament, we have seen Jesus Christ, and like Simeon we find divine peace and comfort through faith in the Savior.

17 M: We give you thanks, O Lord, for the foretaste of the heavenly banquet that you have given us to eat and to drink in this sacrament. Through this gift you have fed our faith, nourished our hope, and strengthened our love. By your Spirit help us to live as your holy people until that day when you will receive us as your guests at the wedding supper of the Lamb, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

C: Amen.

BLESSING15 Numbers 6:24-26

M: The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look on you with his favor and ✠ give you peace.

C: Amen.

Please be seated.

15 The blessing of Aaron has been spoken over God’s people for over 3,500 years. The Lord said, “So they will put my name on [them], and I will bless them” (Numbers 6:27).

18 CLOSING HYMN Glory Be to God the Father | 239

19 ❖ Please reserve the pews in the back of the church for families with small children.

❖ Restrooms are located in the entrance area of the church.

❖ A quiet room with a window is available in the entrance area of the church and offers live audio of the service and is equipped with chairs and a changing table. Parents may also use this room to calm a restless child.

❖ If you would like to know more about Redeemer, visit redeemertucson.com or contact Pastor Mueller.

www.redeemertucson.com - (520) 572-8136 [email protected] Redeemer Lutheran Church 8845 N Silverbell Road - Tucson, AZ 85743 Pastor Adam Mueller –20 [email protected]