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Holy Gospel - Matthew 21:33-46 ♪Hymn of the Day♪ #830 Children’s Message Sermon “Kingdom People Produce Kingdom Fruit” LWML Skit “A Revealing Conversation” Apostles Creed Prayers of the Church Lord’s Prayer Blessing ♪Closing Hymn♪ “Serve the Lord with Gladness” Postlude Ringing Church Bells Welcome ♪Prelude♪ ♪Opening Hymn♪ #901 Installation of Mary & Martha Officers for 2020-2021 LWML Pledge Confession, Forgiveness & Introit ♪Hymn of Praise♪ #506 Salutation & Collect Old Testament - Isaiah 5:1–7 Responsive Psalm – 80:7–19 Epistle - Philippians 3:4b–14

The Mission of the LWML

The mission of the Lutheran Women's Missionary League is to assist each woman of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod in affirming her relationship with the Triune God so that she is enabled to use her gifts in ministry to the people of the world. WELCOME LWML Sunday 2020

Prelude

Opening Hymn #901 Open Now Thy Gates of f Beauty

• Open now thy gates of beauty; Zion,

let me enter there, Where my soul in joyful duty Waits for Him to answer prayer. Oh, how blessed is this place, Filled with solace, light, and grace!

• Gracious God, I come before Thee;

Come Thou also unto me. Where we find Thee and adore Thee, There a heav’n on earth must be. To my heart, O enter Thou; Let it be Thy temple now!

• Here Thy praise is gladly chanted;

Here Thy seed is duly sown. Let my soul, where it is planted, Bring forth precious sheaves alone, So that all I hear may be Fruitful unto life in me.

Missions Service The Word

Lutheran Women in Mission

United in …

President: Dielda Kuhlmann Vice Pres: Hannelore Payne Secretary: Carolyn Troseth Treasurer: Marjie Boydston Christian Growth: Ellen Taylor

Installation ceremony was recorded by Tracy Brown

LWML Pledge

In fervent gratitude for the Savior's dying love and His blood-bought gift of redemption we dedicate

• urselves to Him with all that we

are and have; and in obedience to His call for workers in the harvest fields, we pledge Him our willing service wherever and whenever He has need of us. We consecrate to

• ur Savior our hands to work for

Him, our feet to go on His errands,

• ur voice to sing His praises, our

lips to proclaim His redeeming love,

• ur silver and our gold to extend

His Kingdom, our will to do His will, and every power of our life to the great task of bringing the lost and the erring into eternal fellowship with Him. Amen.

Confession and Absolution

P: In the name of the Father and of the † Son and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen. P: If we say we have no sin, we deceive

• urselves, and the truth is not in us.

C: But if we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ~ Silence for reflection on God’s Word and for self-examination ~ P: Let us then confess our sins to God our Father. C: Most merciful God, we confess that we are by nature sinful and unclean. We have sinned against You in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. C: We have not fully lived as Your kingdom

• people. We have not brought forth the fruits
• f righteousness as we ought. We justly

deserve Your present and eternal

• punishment. For the sake of Your Son, Jesus

Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in Your will, walk in Your ways, and bear kingdom fruit to the glory of Your holy

• name. Amen.

P: Almighty God in His mercy has given His

• nly Son to die for you and for His sake

forgives you all of your sins. As a called and

• rdained servant of Christ, and by His

authority, I therefore forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the † Son and of the Holy Spirit. C: Amen!

Sa Salutation & Collect In Introit

P: Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; for steadfast love endures forever! P: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. C: This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. P: This is the day that the LORD has made; C: Let us rejoice and be glad in it. C: Glory be to the Father and to Son and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen. P: Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

♪Hymn of Praise♪ #582

• ♪Glory be to God the Father, Glory be to God the Son,

Glory be to God the Spirit; Great Jehovah, Three in One! Glory, glory, While eternal ages run.

• ♪Glory be to Him who loved us, Washed us from each

spot and stain; Glory be to Him who bought us, Made us kings with Him to reign! Glory, glory, To the Lamb that once was slain!

• ♪Glory to the King of angels, Glory to the Church’s King,

Glory to the King of nations; Heav’n and earth, your praises bring! Glory, glory To the King of glory sing!

• ♪Glory, blessing, praise eternal! Thus the choir of angels

sings; Honor, riches, pow’r, dominion! Thus its praise creation brings. Glory, glory, Glory to the King of kings!

Old ld Testament

Isaiah 5:1–7 (ESV)

Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst

• f it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but

it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my

• vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down

its wall, and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry! P: This is the Word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God.

Responsive Psalm

80:7–19 (ESV)

C: Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine, P: the stock that your right hand planted, and for the son whom you made strong for yourself. C: They have burned it with fire; they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of your face! P: But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself! C: Then we shall not turn back from you; give us life, and we will call upon your name! P: Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved! 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: Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! C: You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. P: You cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land. C: The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches. P: It sent out its branches to the sea and its shoots to the River. C: Why then have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? P: The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.

Epistle

Philippians 3:4b–14 (ESV)

If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day,

• f the people of Israel, of the tribe of

Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law,

• blameless. But whatever gain I had, I

counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss

• f all things and count them as

rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith — that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this

• r am already perfect, but I press on

to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. P: This is the Word of the Lord. C: Thanks be to God! Alleluia Verse P: Alleluia! The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. C: This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. Alleluia!

Holy Gospel Matthew 21:33-46 (E (ESV)

P: The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the twenty-first chapter. C: Glory to You, O Lord. [Jesus said,] “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another

• country. When the season for fruit

drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat

• ne, killed another, and stoned
• another. Again he sent other

servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the

• heir. Come, let us kill him and have

his inheritance.’ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the

• wner of the vineyard comes, what

will he do to those tenants?” They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.” Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.” When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet. P: This is the Gospel of the Lord. C: Praise to You, O Christ.

• Spread the reign of God the Lord, Spoken, written, mighty

Word; Ev'rywhere His creatures call To His heav'nly banquet hall.

• Tell how God the Father's will Made the world, upholds it still,

How His own dear Son He gave Us from sin and death to save.

• Tell of our Redeemer's grace, Who, to save our human race

And to pay rebellion's price, Gave Himself as sacrifice.

• Tell of God the Spirit giv'n Now to guide us on to heav'n,

Strong and holy, just and true, Working both to will and do.

• Enter, mighty Word, the field; Ripe the promise of its yield.

But the reapers, oh, how few For the work there is to do!

• Lord of harvest, great and kind, Rouse to action heart and mind;

Let the gath'ring nations all See Your light and heed Your call.

Hymn of f th the Day #830 Spread th the Reign of f God th the Lo Lord

Children’s Message

SERMON

Kingdom people produce Kingdom Fruit

LWML MIT ITES A Revealing Conversation

Starring Sharon Buechler as the Wallet Camera & sound tech Don Kuhlmann Directed by Dielda Kuhlmann Written by Rev. Kenton Rohrberg Karen Begalka as the Mite Box

The Widow's Mite Mark 12:41–43

Here in Washington state

• Equipped Lutheran Ministry Services

NW with 10 additional care center ministry teams to bring Christ-centered ministry to nursing homes

• Purchased musical instruments for

practice and use in worship at Makah Lutheran Church, Neah Bay. There is no music program at the near by public high school.

• Provided 500 peanut butter and jelly

sandwiches weekly to the homeless in Milton, Washington

• Helped with transportation costs for a

local LCMS woman on a short-term mission trip

Elsewhere

• Renovated the University Lutheran Chapel at University Nebraska-Lincoln
• Helped Lutheran Hour Ministries provide vocational training to abandoned,

unwed mothers and victims of abuse in Kenya

• Restored hope and dignity to women and children abandoned in refugee camps

in Lebanon

• Built a disaster training center in the Dominican Republic which provides

emergency housing in Latin America

• Improved the health of thousands of people with sustainable water filters and

hygiene education in developing nations

• Paid for printing and distribution of Luther’s Small Catechism in languages of SE

Asia

• Supported a Vacation Bible school type camp for children in the church and

community who have been impacted by a tornado in Illinois

• Built a work center to produce ESVBible in large print to visually impaired

people who are incarcerated throughout the US

• Paid for air and ferry travel for the sole missionary who covers over 70,000

square miles of remote communities in southeast Alaska Provided

• materials for Lutheran Special Education Ministry in Florida & Texas
• Christian education and witness to the Gospel to 1 million indigenous people

living in isolated areas of northern Canada. The area has a high suicide rate, despair and hopelessness, limited opportunities for education and employment, high levels of violence and drug abuse, life expectancy is between 45-55 years

• comforting care packages for cancer patients across the USA
• scholarships for youth from Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia, Slovakia, and Nicaragua to

attend Saint Paul Lutheran High School in Minnesota

• critical home repairs for low-income, disabled and/or elderly residents in the

US, partnering with Lutheran Housing Support

• funding to Ministry to the Armed Forces-LCMS so they can give Chaplains’

wives a break from their hectic lifestyle and offer them retreats which gives them renewed energy and joy in ministry

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. 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.

The Lord’s Prayer Prayers of f the Church

Ble lessing

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us

• ur trespasses as we forgive those who trespass

against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen

• “Serve the Lord with gladness!” It is He

alone Who redeemed us sinners, Guides us as His own To enjoy the blessings Of His love and grace, Will at last in glory Meet us face to face. [Refrain] Onward, then, for Jesus! Let this be our aim: “Serve the Lord with gladness!” Glorify His name.

• “Serve the Lord with gladness!” He gave us

command To proclaim His Gospel Now in every land So that fellow sinners May, like us, be blest. Leading them to Jesus, We can serve Him best. [Refrain]

• “Serve the Lord with gladness!” There’s no

greater joy Than to serve the Master, Work in His employ. As we build His kingdom Angels, too, rejoice Over every sinner Brought to hear His voice. [Refrain]

Clo Closin ing Hymn “Serve the Lord with Gladness”

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