The Tenth Sunday after Trinity
Our Lord wept over Jerusalem for the destruction that would soon come upon her. For she did not recognize the time of God’s visitation in Christ, who had come to bring her peace (Luke 19:41-48). Through His prophets God had consistently called His people to turn from their deceit and false worship. “But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord” (Jeremiah 7:1-11; 8:4-12). They sought to establish their own righteousness rather than receive Christ’s righteousness through faith (Romans 9:30-10:4). So it was that God was in His temple to cleanse it, a precursor to the once-for-all cleansing from sin which He would accomplish in the temple of His own body on the cross. God grant us to know the things that make for our peace – His visitation in the Word and Sacraments – that by the Holy Spirit we may penitently confess “Jesus is Lord” (1 Corinthians 12:1-11).
Introit: (Psalm 55:1, 4-5, 16; antiphon: Psalm 55:16a, 17b, 18a, 22a)
Pastor: I call to God, and he hears my voice; He redeems my soul in safety.
Congregation: Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you.
P: Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!
C: My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
P: Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
C: But I call to God, and the Lord will save me.
Gloria Patri – pg. 186
Collect of the Day
O God, You declare Your almighty power above all in showing mercy and pity. Mercifully grant us such a measure of Your grace that we may obtain Your gracious promises and be made partakers of Your heavenly treasures; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
- Jeremiah 8:4-12 +
“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? (5) Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. (6) I have paid attention and listened, but they have not spoken rightly; no man relents of his evil, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to his own course, like a horse plunging headlong into battle. (7) Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the just decrees of the Lord. (8) “How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. (9) The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them? (10) Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to conquerors, because from the least to the greatest everyone is greedy for unjust gain; from prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely. (11) They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace. (12) Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.
Gradual: (Psalm 17:8, 2)
Keep me as the apple | of your eye; *
hide me in the shadow | of your wings,
From your presence let my vindi- | cation come! *
Let your eyes be- | hold the right! - 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 +
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. (2) You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. (3) Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. (4) Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; (5) and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; (6) and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. (7) To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. (8) For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, (9) to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, (10) to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (11) All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
The Lutheran Confessions Responsive Reading: The Augsburg Confession (1530)
P: What do we believe, teach, and confess about Repentance (A.C. Art.XII)?
C: Our churches teach that there is forgiveness of sins for those who have fallen after Baptism whenever they are converted. The Church ought to impart Absolution to those who return to repentance [Jeremiah 3:12].
P: Strictly speaking what are the two parts of repentance?
C: One part is contrition, that is, terrors striking the conscience through the knowledge of sin. The other part is faith, which is born of the Gospel [Romans 10:17] or the Absolution and believes that for Christ’s sake, sins are forgiven. It comforts the conscience and delivers it from terror. Then good works are bound to follow, which are the fruit of repentance [Galatians 5:22–23].
Verse: (Psalm 88:1)
P: Alleluia. O Lord, God of my salvation,
C: I cry out day and night before you. Alleluia.
- Luke 19:41-48 +
And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, (42) saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. (43) For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side (44) and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.” (45) And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, (46) saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” (47) And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, (48) but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.
