Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana Podcast

One returned to give Jesus thanks when He healed ten men full of leprosy. Paul rejoices from his prison cell in Rome. Moses teaches the children of Israel to rejoice in the Lord who delivered them from slavery in Egypt and starvation in the desert. We daily give thanks to God the Father through Jesus Christ by His Spirit enlivening us through His Word - for He delivers us from the Evil One! Sermon Text: Deuteronomy 8:1-10. Sermon Theme: "The 7th Petition - Rejoicing in Deliverance" preached for Thanksgiving Eve, 23-November-2022, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

"Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation!" Jesus told His sleeping apostles in the Garden of Gethsemane. "Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. "(Mar 13:33) Jesus tells us as we live in the Last Days looking forward to His Second Coming. The sixth request that dear children make of their dear Heavenly Father is "Lead us not into temptation!" Sermon Text: Isaiah 65:17-25. Sermon Theme: "The 6th Petition - Guarded and Kept For the Final Victory!" Preached for the Last Sunday of the Church Year, 20-November-2022, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

90 But this should serve God’s purpose of breaking our pride and keeping us humble. For in case any one should boast of his godliness and despise others, God has reserved this prerogative to Himself, that the person is to consider himself and place this prayer before his eyes, and he will find that he is no better than others, and that in the presence of God all must lower their plumes, and be glad that they can attain forgiveness. 91 And let no one think that as long as we live here he can reach such a position that he will not need such forgiveness. In short, if God does not forgive without ceasing, we are lost.

The Twenty-Second Sunday After Trinity 13-November-2022

Sermon Text: Micah 6:6-8

Sermon Theme: The Fifth Petition - The True Humility of Forgiveness!

All Saints' Day calls us to remember that by God's grace in Christ Jesus we are citizens of Heaven. He provides us with our "daily bread!"

The good and gracious will of God is done! Jacob's tricking could not prevent the Lord from accomplishing His Will to save sinners in Christ Jesus. Sermon Text: Genesis 28:10-17/3rd Petition of the Lord's Prayer. Sermon Theme: "Father, Thy Will Be Done!" Preached for the 19th Sunday after Trinity , 23 October 2022, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

The Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity

The Pharisees ask a Law question. Jesus asks a Gospel question. The Pharisees seek to trap Jesus in His own words. Jesus seeks to "trap" them in the saving reality of who He is as the Messiah (Matt 22:34-46). The Law requires you to "fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul" and to "love the stranger" (Deut 10:12-21). Failure to keep the Law perfectly brings judgment. On the other hand, the Gospel brings the grace of God given by Jesus Christ, that you may be blameless in the day of His return (1 Cor 1:1-9). Jesus is David's Son yet David's Lord, true God and true man. He is Love incarnate who fulfilled all the demands of God's Law on our behalf, that we might be saved from the Law's condemnation and sanctified in the Gospel's forgiveness. Thereby we see that "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord."

Introit: (Psalm 122:1,6,8-9; antiphon: Ecclesiasticus 36:16-17a)

Pastor: Give peace, O Lord, to those who wait for You: and let Your prophets be proven faithful.

Congregation: Hear the prayer of Your servants,

according to the blessing of Aaron upon Your people.

P: I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!”

C: Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!

P: For my brothers and companions' sake I will say, “Peace be within you!”

C: For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.

All: 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.

P: Give peace, O Lord, to those who wait for You: and let Your prophets be proven faithful.

C: Hear the prayer of Your servants, according to the blessing of Aaron upon Your people.

Collect Of The Day

O God, because without You we are not able to please You, mercifully grant that Your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

+ Deuteronomy 10:12-21 +

“And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, (13) and to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD, which I am commanding you today for your good? (14) Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. (15) Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. (16) Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. (17) For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. (18) He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. (19) Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt. (20) You shall fear the LORD your God. You shall serve him and hold fast to him, and by his name you shall swear. (21) He is your praise. He is your God, who has done for you these great and terrifying things that your eyes have seen.

Gradual: (Psalm 122:1,7)

I was glad when they | said to me,*

“Let us go to the house | of the LORD!”

Peace be with- | in your walls *

and security within your | towers!”

+1 Corinthians 1:1-9 +

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, (2) To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: (3) Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (4) I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, (5) that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— (6) even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— (7) so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, (8) who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. (9) God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

+The Lutheran Confessions Responsive Reading: The Lord’s Prayer+

P: As the head of the family should teach it in a simple way to his household. What is the second request of dear true children to their dear True Father (The Second Petition)?

C: Thy kingdom come.

P: What does this mean?

C: The kingdom of God certainly comes by itself without our prayer,

but we pray in this petition that it may come to us also.

P: How does God's kingdom come?

C: God's kingdom comes when our heavenly Father gives us His Holy Spirit, so that by His grace we believe His holy Word and lead godly lives here in time and there in eternity.

P: What is The Third Commandment?

C: Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

P: What does this mean?

C: We should fear and love God so that we do not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred and gladly hear and learn it.

Verse: (Psalm 117:1)

P: Alleluia! Praise the LORD, all nations!

C: Extol him, all peoples! Alleluia!

+ Matthew 22:34-46 +

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. (35) And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. (36) “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” (37) And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (38) This is the great and first commandment. (39) And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (40) On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” (41) Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question, (42) saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “The son of David.” (43) He said to them, “How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying, (44) “‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet”’? (45) If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” (46) And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.

"Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the King!" But our King Jesus exalts us blessing us with God's Name in holy baptism, giving us the Holy Spirit who teaches us to cry out, "Abba Father" in prayer.

Sermon Text: Proverbs 25:6-14 Sermon Theme: "Prayer: Begging Our Father in Christ's Holy Name!" Preached for the 17th Sunday After Trinity, 9-October-2022, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

The Third Article: Sanctification

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

What does this mean?

I believe that I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to Him; but the Holy Spirit has called me by the Gospel, enlightened me with His gifts, sanctified and kept me in the true faith. In the same way He calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian church on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith. In this Christian church He daily and richly forgives all my sins and the sins of all believers. On the Last Day He will raise me and all the dead, and give eternal life to me and all believers in Christ. This is most certainly true.

Brought from death to life by the Lord and Giver of Life through the Word of Christ Jesus!

Sermon Text: 1 Kings 17:17-24. Sermon Theme: "The Lord Brings The Dead to Life in Christ!" preached for the 16th Sunday After Trinity, 2-October-2022 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, IN by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

The widow at Zarephath was down to her last meal. The Lord sent the prophet Elijah to be cared for by her. His Word blessed her meager supplies to sustain the prophet and her household until He sent rain. The Second Article of The Faith teaches us to trust in Jesus. Sermon Text: 1 Kings 17:8-16. Sermon Theme: "The Bread of Heaven Sustains Us With His Life!" Preached for the 15th Sunday After Trinity, 25-September-2022, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

"My son listen..." God the Father calls us from death and enslavement under Satan to be His own beloved sons through faith in Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit working through His Word.

Sermon Text: Proverbs 4:10-23/The First Article Of The Apostles' Creed. Sermon Theme: "Remember Whose Sons You Are!" Preached for the 14th Sunday After Trinity, 18-September-2022, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

THE FOURTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY

The ten lepers cried out from a distance, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" (Luke 17:11–19). Their condition cut them off from God and others. So also do the works of the flesh cut us off from God and others. "Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God" (Gal 5:16–24). Thus we cry out with the lepers, "Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy," eagerly seeking His good gifts. Jesus said to the lepers, "Go, show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were cleansed. So too, we walk by faith and not by sight, being confident of Jesus' help before we see any evidence of it, trusting that Jesus' cleansing words of forgiveness will restore us to wholeness in the resurrection. Let us be as the one leper who returned to the true High Priest to give Him thanks and glory. For Jesus bore our infirmities in His sacrifice at Calvary. His words are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh (Prov 4:10–23).

INTROIT:(Psalm 84:1,2a,4,10b,11b; antiphon:Psalm 84:9,10a)

Pastor: Behold our shield, O God, look on the face of Your anointed!

Congregation: For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.

P: How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

My soul longs, yes, even faints For the courts of the LORD.

C:Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; ever singing Your praise.

P:I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

C: The LORD bestows favor and honor;

No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

All: Gloria Patri - pg. 186

Collect of The Day

O Lord, keep Your Church with Your perpetual mercy; and because of our frailty we cannot but fall, keep us ever by Your help from all things hurtful and lead us to all things profitable to our salvation; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

+Proverbs 4:10-23+

Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many. (11) I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness. (12) When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. (13) Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life. (14) Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. (15) Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. (16) For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. (17) For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. (18) But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (19) The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble. (20) My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. (21) Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. (22) For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. (23) Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Gradual:(Psalm 92:1,2.)

It is good to give thanks | to the LORD, *

And to sing praises to Your name, | O Most High;

To declare Your steadfast loves in the | morning, *

And Your faithful | ness by night.

+Galatians 5:16-24+

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (17) For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. (18) But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. (19) Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, (20) idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, (21) envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (24) And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

The Lutheran Confessions Responsive Reading: The Faith: The Lord’s Prayer: Small Catechism (1529)

P: As the head of the family should teach them in a simple way to his household.

P: What is The First Article of the Apostles’ Creed?

C: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.

P: Why do we call God , Father?

C: I believe that God has made me and all creatures; that He has given me my body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses, and still takes care of them.

P: How does God the Father care for us?

He also gives me clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, wife and children, land, animals, and all I have. He richly and daily provides me with all that I need to support this body and life. He defends me against all danger and guards and protects me from all evil.

P: Why does God the Father create and care for us?

C: All this He does only out of fatherly, divine goodness and mercy, without any merit or worthiness in me. For all this it is my duty to thank and praise, serve and obey Him. This is most certainly true.

P: What is The Introduction to The Lord’s Prayer?

C: Our Father who art in heaven.

P: What does this mean?

C: With these words God tenderly invites us to believe that He is our true Father and that we are His true children, so that with all boldness and confidence we may ask Him as dear children ask their dear father.

Verse:(Psalm 65:1.)

P: Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion;

C: And to You the vow shall be performed. Alleluia!

+Luke 17:11-19+

On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. (12) And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance (13) and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” (14) When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. (15) Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; (16) and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. (17) Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? (18) Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” (19) And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”