Friday after
Lent II
March 21,
2014
The Lord be
with you
This coming
Sunday is the Third Sunday in Lent. During the Lenten season certain elements
are changed or removed from our service, to return on Easter and the Easter
season. For our liturgy this coming Sunday we will be using the third setting
of the Divine Service (page 184). The changes include omitting the Gloria In
Excelsis (page 187) and all Alleluias. Divine Three is a communion service. To
prepare for the Lord’s Supper you may review the Christian Questions with Their
Answers from Luther’s Small Catechism (page 329 in the hymnal).
The assigned
lections for Sunday are Exodus 17:1-7; Romans 5:1-8; and John 4:5-30, 39-42.
The text for the sermon is Exodus 17:7. The sermon is titled “Is God With Us?” Our
opening hymn is “Not All the Blood of Beasts,” LSB 431. The sermon hymn
is “O God, Forsake Me Not,” LSB 731. Our closing hymn is “When Peace,
Like a River,” LSB 763. Our distribution hymns will be “If God Himself
Be For Me,” LSB 724, “O Christ, You Walked the Road,” LSB 424,
and “On My Heart Imprint Your Image,” LSB 422.
Below is a
video of what sounds like a men’s quartet singing our opening hymn, “Not All
the Blood of Beasts.”
Our Sunday morning Bible hour begins at 9:00 am. We continue with Colossians.
Information for our April newsletter is due Sunday.
Below is the
summary of the lessons provided by the LCMS.
We Worship the Father
of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Spirit and Truth of His Gospel
Though the
Lord had brought them out of Egypt, “all
the congregation of the people of Israel” grumbled against Him because “there was no water for the people to drink”
(Ex. 17:1). Despite their quarreling, the Lord graciously provided for them. He
did not strike the people for their sins, but by the hand of Moses He struck
the rock instead and brought forth water for the people. In the same way,
living water flows from the pierced side of Christ at “about the sixth hour” (John 4:6, 19:14), when He is lifted up on
the cross for the sins of the world. He is “the
gift of God” (John 4:10), the well from which the Holy Spirit is poured out
and becomes in His people “a spring of
water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:14). By this grace in which we
stand, being at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, we “worship the Father in spirit and truth”
(John 4:23). “We rejoice in hope of the
glory of God” because “God’s love has
been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us”
(Rom. 5:2, 5).
Sunday’s Lessons
Exodus
17:1-7
17:1 All
the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by
stages, according to the commandment of the Lord,
and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2Therefore
the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses
said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” 3But the people
thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why
did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock
with thirst?” 4So Moses cried to the Lord,
“What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5And
the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on
before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in
your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6Behold,
I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the
rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did
so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. 7And he called the name of
the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of
Israel, and because they tested the Lord
by saying, “Is the Lord among us
or not?”
Romans 5:1-8
5:1 Therefore,
since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ. 2Through 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. 3Not
only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces
endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces
hope, 5and 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.
6 For
while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7For
one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person
one would dare even to die—8but God shows his love for us in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
John
4:5-30, 39-42
5 So
he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given
to his son Joseph. 6Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he
was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A
woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(For
his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9The
Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from
me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus
answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to
you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you
living water.” 11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to
draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are
you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13Jesus said to her,
“Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but
whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.
The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up
to eternal life.” 15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water,
so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus
said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17The woman
answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying,
‘I have no husband’; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one
you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19The
woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.20 Our
fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place
where people ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe
me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you
worship the Father. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is
coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24God
is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25The
woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ).
When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26Jesus said to her, “I
who speak to you am he.”
27 Just
then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman,
but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28So
the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29“Come,
see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30They
went out of the town and were coming to him. …
39 Many
Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He
told me all that I ever did.” 40So when the Samaritans came to him,
they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41And
many more believed because of his word. 42They said to the woman,
“It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard
for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Well, I pray
we will see you Sunday morning.
Blessings in
Christ,
Pastor John Rickert
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