Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana Podcast

The Sixth Sunday After Trinity 16-July-2023

Sermon Text: Matthew 5:17-26

Sermon Theme: Reconciling Righteousness!

Preached at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert

Jesus calls us to proclaim His Word of Truth and Life to a world chained by Satan's lies and a the world's culture of death. Do not Fear! Our Tireless Master is still at work in His creation through His Word.

Sermon Text: Luke 5:1-11. Sermon Theme: Learn to Fish! preached for the 5th Sunday after Trinity, 9-July-2023, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

The Second Sunday After Trinity

Forsake foolishness and live" (Prov 9:1–10). This is the call of the Spirit of Christ to believe the Gospel and to receive His saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master's house will be filled. The Gospel call therefore goes out to the lowly and despised, into the highways, even to all the Gentiles (Luke 14:15–24). For "you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ" (Eph 2:13–22). In Christ, believing Jews and Gentiles are no longer strangers but fellow members of the household of God. The enmity of class and race is put to death through the cross. Having been reconciled in the one body of Christ, we are enabled to love one another (1 John 3:13–18) as we await the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which will have no end.

INTROIT:(Psalm 18:18-19;1-2,27,30,49.)

P: The LORD was my support in the day of my calamity

C: He also brought me out into a broad place;

He delivered me because He delighted in me.

P: I will love You, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock and my fortress.

C:For You will save the humble people,

But will bring down haughty looks.

P: As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven;

C:Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the Gentiles,

And sing praises to Your name.

Gloria Patri

+ Proverbs 9:1-10 +

"Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; {2} She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also furnished her table. {3} She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city, {4} "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, {5} "Come, eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. {6} Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding. {7} "He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. {8} Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. {9} Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. {10} "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."

Gradual:(Psalm 120:1,2)

P: In my distress I cried to the LORD, And He heard me.

C:Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips And from a deceitful tongue.

+1 John 3:13-18+

"Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. {14} We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. {15} Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. {16} By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. {17} But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? {18} My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth."

Catechetical Responsive Reading: Luther’s Small Catechism

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

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.

P: What is The Second Petition of the Lord’s Prayer?

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: Which is the great commandment in the law?"

C: "'You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, and with all your mind.'

"This is the first and great commandment."Matthew 22:37-38

Verse:(Psalm 7:17)

P: Alleluia! Alleluia! I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness,

C: And will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High. Alleluia

+Luke 14:15-24+

{15}"Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God!" {16} Then He said to him, "A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, {17} "and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.' {18} "But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.' {19} "And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.' {20} "Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' {21} "So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.' {22} "And the servant said, 'Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.' {23} "Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. {24} 'For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.'""

The First Sunday After Trinity

When the beggar Lazarus died, he was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. For he was truly Abraham's seed. He believed in the Lord, and the Lord "accounted it to him for righteousness" (Gen 15:1–6). The name Lazarus means "God is my help." The unnamed rich man, on the other hand, did not love and trust in God. For he evidently cared little for the beggar at his gate. And "he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?" (1 John 4:16–21). He who loved and trusted in possessions and prestige died and was in torments in Hades (Luke 16:19–31). Repentance and faith are worked only through Moses and the prophets—that is, the Word of God, for it points us to Christ. Through His death and resurrection, we are brought to the comfort of life everlasting.

Sermon Text: Luke 16:19-31. Sermon Theme: "Cling to Real Riches!" Preached for the First Sunday After Trinity, 11-June-2023, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert

We believe, teach, and confess: "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." On Pentecost we rejoice that God the Holy Spirit is still poured out upon us through the Gospel preached, poured, read, and fed us in Christ reconciling us to our God and Father. Sermon Text: John 14:23-31. Sermon Theme: "Reunited!" Preached for The Feast of Pentecost, 28-May-2023, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

The world and our fallen flesh long for a kingdom we can see and a cross that is hidden or non-existent. King Jesus gives us a Kingdom we can't see and a cross that we see, feel, and experience daily. Sermon Text: John 15:26-16:4. Sermon Theme: "Christ's Hidden Kingdom!" Preached for Exaudi, The Sunday after the Ascension, 21-May-2023 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana LCMS, br Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

Christ Jesus ascends not to get away from His creation, but to fill it with His Divine and Human Nature to save sinners. Sermon Text: Mark 16:14-20. Sermon Theme: "King Jesus' Saving Rule!" Preached for the Ascension of our Lord, 18-May-2023, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

"Rogate" "Pray ye!" Ascension is coming and our Lord Jesus to teaches us to pray in a world where we will have tribulation. Still praying to our Father through His only begotten Son we have joy and peace through His Holy Spirit. Sermon Text: John 16:23-33. Sermon Theme: "Learning To Pray Under The Cross!" Preached for Rogate, The Sixth Sunday of Easter, 14-May-2023, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

Dr. Martin Luther wrote, "23. He deserves to be called a theologian, however, who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross." He comments: "The manifest and visible things of God are placed in opposition to the invisible, namely, his human nature, weakness, foolishness. The Apostle in 1 Cor. 1:25 calls them the weakness and folly of God. Because men misused the knowledge of God through works, God wished again to be recognized in suffering, and to condemn »wisdom concerning invisible things« by means of »wisdom concerning visible things«, so that those who did not honor God as manifested in his works should honor him as he is hidden in his suffering ( absconditum in passionibus). As the Apostle says in 1 Cor. 1:21, »For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.« Now it is not sufficient for anyone, and it does him no good to recognize God in his glory and majesty, unless he recognizes him in the humility and shame of the cross. Thus God destroys the wisdom of the wise, as Isa. 45:15 says, »Truly, thou art a God who hidest thyself.«"(Heidelberg Disputation, 1518).

Jubilate Sunday calls us to shout in joyous triumph in the midst of suffering for Christ crucified lives - He has won for us the eternal victory. Sermon Text: John 16:16-23a) Sermon Theme: "A Little While - What Does This Mean?" Preached for Jubilate, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, 30-April-2023, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.

"I am Jesus little lamb" the Christian confidently sings through the waters of Holy Baptism. Christ Jesus is The Good Shepherd. Apart from Him the old evil wolf Satan devours humanity and destroys creation. Our Good Shepherd lays down His life for sinful straying sheep on Calvary. Then He takes His life up again to be with us always through His Word and in His Sacraments within the green pastures of His Church. Sermon for Misercordias Domini, The 3rd Sunday of Easter, 23-April-2023, preached at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Tell City, Indiana by Rev. Nathan J. Rusert.