Immanuel Lutheran Church LCMS

Come Not In Terrors | Sermon for Pentecost 23

Sermon for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

Rev. Gregory Mech | November 17, 2019 | Sunday Morning | 8:00 am | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO

Opening Hymn

We Praise You, O God Hymn 785

Invocation, Confession and Absolution

Psalm 98; antiphon Luke 21:33

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things!

His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

The Lord has made known his salvation;

    he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness

    to the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth;

    break forth into joyous song and sing praises!

Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!

With trumpets and the sound of the horn

    make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord!

Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it!

Let the rivers clap their hands;

    let the hills sing for joy together before the Lord, for he comes

    to judge the earth.

He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Gloria, Kyrie and Gloria in Excelsis

Collect of the Day

The Lord be with you.

And with Thy spirit.

Let us pray. O Lord, almighty and ever-living God, You have given exceedingly great and precious promises to those who trust in You. Rule and govern our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may live and abide forever in Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.

Amen.

Kids’ Talk

Scripture Readings

Malachi 4:1-6

     “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.

    “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rulesthat I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

     “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Gradual Hymn

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Hymn 380

2 Thessalonians 3: 6-13

        Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you. It was not because we do not have that right, but to give you in ourselves an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living. 

     As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

 This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Triple Alleluia

Luke 21:5-