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IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH PRELUDE A Congregation of the North American Lutheran Church Please be mindful of social distancing recommendations as you 920 Fillmore Street – Whitewood, SD 57793 – 269-2104 choose a place to sit. You may wear a face mask to protect www.immanuellutheranwhitewoodsd.com yourself and others. Pastor David J. Baer – [email protected] – 722-6347 WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Third Sunday in Lent March 7, 2021 OPENING PRAYER P O Lord, our Maker, Redeemer, and Comforter, we are Immanuel is celebrating its centennial this year. Worship assembled in Thy presence to hear Thy holy word. We pray services that led to the founding of our congregation started Thee so to open our hearts by Thy Holy Spirit, that through the in Whitewood in Advent of 1920. The first worship service preaching of Thy word we may be taught to repent of our sins, was held on December 5, 1920. The congregation was to believe on Jesus in life and in death, and to grow day by day formally organized on April 3, 1921. As part of our in grace and holiness. Hear us for Christ’s sake. Amen. centennial observances this year, we are using some hymns, liturgical music and texts that were used by Lutherans over the last 100 years. *HYMN, “You Are the Way” LBW Hymn 464 1. You are the way; through you alone Most of our liturgy for the Lenten season is from “The Can we the Father find; Lutheran Hymnary,” published in 1913 by the Norwegian In you, O Christ, has God revealed Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the Hauge’s Evangelical His heart, his will, his mind! Lutheran Synod and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. Those three church bodies merged in 2. You are the truth; your Word alone 1917 to form the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. True wisdom can impart; The Norwegian Lutheran Church of America changed its You only can inform the mind name to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1946. The And purify the heart. constitution adopted at the founding of Immanuel states that “the public worship of the congregation shall be conducted 3. You are the life; the rending tomb in conformity with the ritual contained in the Lutheran Proclaims your conqu'ring arm; Hymnary, modified, however, according to circumstances, And those who put their trust in you as the congregation may deem advisable.” Not death nor hell shall harm. Portions of the liturgy from “The Lutheran Hymnary” were 4. You are the way, the truth, the life; reprinted in a 1932 hymnal called “The Concordia Grant us that way to know, Hymnal” which was widely used among Norwegian- That truth to keep, that life to win, American immigrants and likely also used by members of Whose joys eternal flow. Immanuel. *CONFESSION OF SIN *KYRIE P Let us bow before the Lord and confess our sins: P Almighty God, our Maker and Redeemer, we poor sinners confess unto Thee, that we are by nature sinful and unclean, and that we have sinned against Thee by thought, word and deed. Wherefore we flee for refuge to Thine infinite mercy, seeking and imploring Thy grace, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ. C O most merciful God, who hast given Thine only-begotten Son to die for us, have mercy upon us, and for His sake grant us remission of all our sins; and by Thy Holy Spirit increase in us true knowledge of Thee, and of Thy will, and true obedience to Thy Word, to the end that by Thy grace we may come to everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. *ABSOLUTION P Almighty God, our heavenly Father, hath had mercy upon us, and hath given His only Son to die for us, and for His sake forgiveth us all our sins. To them that believe on His Name, he giveth power to become the sons of God, and hath promised them His Holy Spirit. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Grant this, Lord, unto us all. C Amen. *PRAYER OF THE DAY — WORD — FIRST READING, Exodus 20:1-17 Then God spoke all these words: I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth P Let us pray together . beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow C We beseech Thee, almighty God, down to them or worship them; for I the LORD your God am a look upon the hearty desires of Thy humble servants, jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the and stretch forth the right hand of Thy majesty third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but to be our defense against all our enemies; showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, love me and keep my commandments. who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the LORD ever one God, world without end. your God, for the LORD will not acquit anyone who misuses his name. Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work — you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and CHILDREN’S MESSAGE consecrated it. Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be HYMN, “We Gather, We Gather, Dear Jesus, to Bring” (v. 3) long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. Those arms, which embraced little children of old, 45 You shall not murder. Still love to encircle the lambs of the fold; You shall not commit adultery. That grace which inviteth the wandering home, You shall not steal. Hath never forbidden the youngest to come, You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. Hath never forbidden the youngest to come You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. (NRSV) L The Word of the Lord. C Thanks be to God. PSALM 19 L Then I shall be blameless, L The heavens are telling the glory of God; and innocent of great transgression. C And the firmament proclaims his handiwork. C Let the words of my mouth L Day to day pours forth speech, and the meditation of my heart C And night to night declares knowledge. be acceptable to you, L There is no speech, nor are there words; O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. their voice is not heard; C Yet their voice goes out through all the earth, SECOND READING, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 and their words to the end of the world. For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who L In the heavens he has set a tent for the sun, are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of C Which comes out like a bridegroom God. For it is written, from his wedding canopy, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and like a strong man runs its course with joy. and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” L Its rising is from the end of the heavens, Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the C And its circuit to the end of them; debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the and nothing is hid from its heat. world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of L The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand C The decrees of the LORD are sure, signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ making wise the simple; crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, L The precepts of the LORD are right, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the rejoicing the heart; power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is C The commandment of the LORD is clear, wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than enlightening the eyes; human strength. L The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you C The ordinances of the LORD are true were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not and righteous altogether. many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the L More to be desired are they than gold, world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world even much fine gold; to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the C Sweeter also than honey, world, things that are not, to reduce to nothing things that are, so and drippings of the honeycomb.