Easter Sunrise Service

507-345-3027 www.ImmanuelMankato.org Pastor Joe Naumann 920-266-5386 Pastor Neal Radichel 920-268-8002 April 12, 2020 Vol. 83, No. 25 We are excited to share the Good News with you! Guests, please contact us if you’re interested in learning more about Immanuel. EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE (7 AM) PASTOR Joe Naumann ♦ ORGANIST Colleen Matzke VIDEO Craig Stelter & Matthew Kranz EASTER SERVICE (10 AM) PASTOR Neal Radichel ♦ ORGANIST Bonnie Cornish VIDEO Craig Stelter & Matthew Kranz PASTOR Neal Radichel ♦ ORGANIST Vickie Schreyer VIDEO Craig Stelter & Matthew Kranz For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” 1 Corinthians 1:18 Pastor (P): Christ is risen! Congregation (C): He is risen indeed! Opening Hymn 210 (v. 1,3-5) TLH (Red Hymnal) The Strife is O’er, the Battle Done P: We begin our celebration of Christ’s resurrection in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. ALL: Amen! ♪ Come, you faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness! God has brought His Israel Into joy from sadness. See the spring of souls today: Christ has burst His prison And from three days’ sleep in death As a sun has risen. WS 726 (v. 1) P: The joy of celebrating our Lord's Resurrection continues. This joy forms the basis for an entirely new life of hope; the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ reorders our earthly lives around an entirely new and different set of priorities. Instead of living for self which 2 dooms us, we live for Jesus Who promises us eternity through His death and resurrection saying, "Because I live, you shall live also!" ♪ All the winter of our sins, Long and dark, is flying From His light, to Whom we give Laud and praise undying. Neither could the gates of death Nor the tomb’s dark portal Nor the watchers nor the seal Hold Him as a mortal. WS 726 (v. 2) CONFESSION & ABSOLUTION OF SINS PSALM 118 We come before our Holy God recognizing that we are sinful and daily need His forgiveness. P: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; C: His love endures forever. P: Let Israel say: "His love endures forever." C: Let the house of Aaron say: "His love endures forever." P: Let those who fear the LORD say: C: "His love endures forever." P: In my anguish I cried to the LORD, C: And he answered by setting me free. P: The LORD is with me; C: I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? P: The LORD is with me; C: He is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies. P: I was pushed back and about to fall, C: But the LORD helped me. P: The LORD is my strength and my song; C: He has become my salvation. P: Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: C: "The LORD's right hand has done mighty things! P: The LORD's right hand is lifted high; C: The LORD's right hand has done mighty things!" P: I will not die but live, ALL: And will proclaim what the LORD has done! ALLELUIA! ♪ But today among His own Christ appeared, bestowing 3 Blessed peace, which evermore Passes human knowing. Come, you faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness! God has brought His Israel Into joy from sadness! WS 726 (v. 3) CHRIST’S PASSION HISTORY READING According to the Four Gospels (New International Version) From Orville Daniel's "A Harmony of the Gospels" 1987 Baker Book House LESSON 1: Events near the Tomb (Sunday morning) There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men. While it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved (John), and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” Just after sunrise, the women took the spices they had prepared and went on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Do not be afraid. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has risen! Remember how He told you, while He was still with you in Galilee: 4 ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again.’ Come and see the place where they laid him. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: and Peter, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee.’ There you will see him, just as he told you. Now I have told you.” Then they remember his words. Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. Meanwhile, Peter and John started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus’ head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. Finally John, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead). Then the disciples went back to their homes, wondering what had happened. Soon after, Mary returned and stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot. They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?” “They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. “Woman,” he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?” Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.” Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. 5 Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” While the other women were on their way to tell the disciples about the angels’ message, Jesus suddenly met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” When they came back from the tomb, Mary of Magdala went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her. The women all told these things to the Eleven and to all the others who had followed him and who were morning and weeping. It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them who told this to the apostles. But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense. Meanwhile, while all the women were on their way to tell the disciples, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. When the chief priests had met with the elders and devised a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money, telling them, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came during the night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ If this report gets to the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble.” So the soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been widely circulated among the Jews to this very day. Hymn of the Day 199 TLH (Red Hymnal) Jesus Christ is Risen Today, Alleluia! LESSON 2: Road to Emmaus & Back (Sunday afternoon) Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.

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