Enduring Temptation-First Sunday in Lent-LCMS Readings 2021

Description

Mark 1:9-15

After Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan, He was sent to the wilderness by the Spirit.  For forty days, Jesus was in the desert where He was tempted by Satan.  He endured the temptation never giving into sin and the angels attended Him.  From there, empowered by the Spirit of God, Jesus proclaimed an urgent message calling our focus and attention to repent and believe in the Gospel.

  

…  We Lift Our Hearts in Worship  … 

[Preservice options include video countdowns, worship song videos, welcomes), CDs, or live music.]

 

Welcome & Time of Greeting 

 

Time of Praise and Worship

Great Are You Lord

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Goodness of God

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At the Cross (Love Ran Red)

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[Traditional Options]

O Lord, Throughout These Forty Days

CHH 180; EH 142; ELW 319; LBW 99; LSB 418; LW 92; NCH 211; PH 81; RS 553; WC 200; UMH 269; WAR 252

Christ, the Lord of Hosts, Unshaken

LSB 521

Jesus, Once With Sinners Numbered

LSB 404

 

 

Invocation

Pastor / Worship Leader

   In you, Lord, we put our trust.

 

Worshipers

   In the Lord our God, we put our hope.

 

Pastor / Worship Leader

  He guides us in truth and teaches us His way.

 

Worshipers

   His love and mercy are great.

 

Pastor / Worship Leader

   We worship the Lord, who is upright and good!

 

Worshipers

   We worship the Lord today and always.

 

 

Opening Prayer / Theme Introduction

 

Pastor / Worship Leader

   Heavenly Father full of love, compassion, and grace, You are long suffering and merciful with us.  You promised a Covenant with Abraham and You’ve made a blood Covenant with us through Your precious Son, Jesus Christ.  He suffered in his humanity and rose in His divinity.   He emptied His blood and covered our sins with it.  In our sufferings and trials here on this earth, we ask that You’d give us the same strength that You gave Your Son to endure temptations, persecution, and earthly death only to arise with You in eternity.  It’s in Your Son’s name we ask this.

 

Worshipers

   Amen.

Time of Confession and Forgiveness

[Alternate location:  following Message]

 

Pastor / Worship Leader

   Now is the time to confess to the Lord.  Now is the time to repent.

 

Worshipers

   For our time on this earth is short, and we are to live in the freedom that Christ has offered freely to us.

 

Pastor / Worship Leader

  But too often we choose to walk in the path of shame with our heads low and feeling guilty.

 

Worshipers

   Show us Your ways, Lord.  Teach us Your paths.  Guide us in Your truth and teach us, for You are God our Savior!  Our hope is in You all day long.

 

Pastor / Worship Leader

   Lord, instruct us and help us hold true to Your commandments.  Forget our rebellious ways and sins of our past.  According to Your love, forgive us.

 

Worshipers

   For You, Lord, are good.  Amen.

 

 

…  We Hear God’s Word  …

[Read aloud both the introduction and Scripture]

First Reading                                  Genesis 22:1-18

God tested Abraham in a way that none of us could probably imagine, but Abraham obeyed.  God rewarded Abraham’s obedience and provided for him a sacrifice at the exact right time.

 

¹ Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. ² Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.” ³ Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. ⁴ On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. ⁵ He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.” ⁶ Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, ⁷ Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” ⁸ Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together. ⁹ When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. ¹⁰ Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. ¹¹ But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. ¹² “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.” ¹³ Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.” ¹⁵ The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time ¹⁶ and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, ¹⁷ I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, ¹⁸ and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,  because you have obeyed me.”