Grace Lutheran Church Tucson, AZ Midweek 5 March 14, 2018 Parts of the service designated "M" are for the Minister. The Congregation is invited to join in the parts marked "C."
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Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Let us confess our sins in the presence of God and of one another. 1
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Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we have sinned against you in our thoughts, in our words, in our deeds, and in all that we have not done. Forgive us in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Deliver and restore us, that we may rest in peace.
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By the mercy of God we are redeemed by Jesus Christ, and in him we are forgiven. Let us rest in his peace until the rising of the sun when we shall serve him in newness of life. Amen.
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RESPONSIVE READING FROM PSALM 69 M: Save me, O God, C: for the waters have come up to my neck. M: Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; C: many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. M: May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord Almighty; C: may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel. M: For zeal for your house consumes me, C: and the insults of those who insult you fall on me. M: Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of your love; C: in your great mercy turn to me. M: They put gall in my food C: and gave me vinegar for my thirst. M: The Lord hears the needy C: and does not despise his captive people. M: Let heaven and earth praise him, C: the seas and all that move in them, M: for God will save Zion C: and rebuild the cities of Judah. M: I will praise God’s name in song C: and glorify him with thanksgiving.
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PSALM PRAYER M: Gracious and merciful God, fill our hearts with joy and confidence so that with all boldness we may proclaim the story of your salvation among all the peoples of the earth to the praise of your great name; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. C: Amen.
PASSION HISTORY Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one who is misleading the people. Look, I have examined him in your presence. I have found in this man no basis for the charges you are bringing against him. Herod did not either, for he sent him back to us. See, he has done nothing worthy of death. So I will have him flogged and release him.” At the time of the Festival the governor had a custom to release to the crowd any one prisoner they wanted. At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas, who had been thrown in prison for a rebellion in the city and for murder. The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them what he usually did. So when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews to you? Which one do you want me to release to you? Barabbas—or Jesus, who is called Christ?” For Pilate in fact knew that they had handed Jesus over to him because of envy. While he was sitting on the judgment seat, Pilate’s wife sent him a message. “Have nothing to do with that righteous man,” she said, “since I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.” But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death. The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They all shouted together with one voice: “Take him away! Release Barabbas to us!” Pilate said to them, “Then what do you want me to do with the man you call the King of the Jews? What should I do with Jesus, who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Crucify him!” But the governor said, “Why? What has he done wrong?” But they kept shouting even louder: “Crucify him!” Pilate addressed them again, because he wanted to release Jesus. But they
kept shouting, “Crucify! Crucify him!” He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found no grounds for sentencing him to death. So I will whip him and release him.” But they kept pressuring him with loud voices, demanding that he be crucified. And their voices were overwhelming. Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole cohort of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him. They twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand, knelt in front of him, and mocked him by saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spit on him, took the staff, and hit him repeatedly on his head. They also kept hitting him in the face. Pilate went outside again and said to them, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” So Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” When the chief priests and guards saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” Pilate told them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.” The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.” When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. He went back inside the palace again and asked Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate asked him, “Are you not talking to me? Don’t you know that I have the authority to release you or to crucify you?” Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over me at all if it had not been given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.” From then on Pilate tried to release Jesus. But the Jews 3
shouted, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!” When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside. He sat down on the judge’s seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, or Gabbatha in Aramaic. It was about the sixth hour on the Preparation Day for the Passover. Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!” They shouted, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?” “We have no king but Caesar!” the chief priests answered. When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing and that instead it was turning into a riot, he decided that what they demanded would be done. He took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of this righteous man’s blood. It is your responsibility.” And all the people answered, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!” Since he wanted to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them.
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SERMON
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Hebrews 13:10-16 Jesus Our Great High Priest Serves at a Great Altar
We have an altar from which those who minister at the tabernacle have no right to eat. The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the
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So then Pilate handed Jesus over to them to be crucified. After they had mocked him, the soldiers took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. Jesus was carrying his own cross. As they were going out of the city, a certain man, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), was passing by on his way in from the country. They placed the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large crowd of the people was following him, including women who were mourning and wailing for him. Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. Be sure of this: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never gave birth, and the breasts that never nursed.’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things to the green wood, what will happen to the dry?”
camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
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GOSPEL CANTICLE: SONG OF SIMEON
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The almighty and merciful Lord—the Father, the Son, ( ) and the Holy Spirit— bless us and keep us. Amen.
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CLOSING HYMN
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THOSE ASSISTING IN WORSHIP THIS EVENING Worship Leader ........................................................................... Pastor Ryan Heiman Accompanist....................................................................................... Elaine Goldie Sound and Recording Tech ................................................................... Jeremy Snavely Copyright Information: Prayer at the Close of Day © 2002 Northwestern Publishing House. All rights reserved. Reprinted under OneLicense.net #A-710199.
Evangelical Heritage Version The Passion History readings we are using in our Lenten services this year are taken from a harmony (combination) of the four Gospels in the Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV). This Bible translation is the work of a group of pastors and professors from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS). An edition of the EHV including the full New Testament and the book of Psalms has been published and is available from Northwestern Publishing House (www.nph.net) or in the Kindle version from Amazon.com. More information about the EHV may be found at www.wartburgproject.org.
Lenten Services The final Wednesday midweek services will be held at Grace-Benson, Grace-Sahuarita, and GraceTucson next week. The theme for our series is “Jesus Christ Is Our Great High Priest.” The sermons and service themes will rotate among the various sites, so worshipers who attend more than one site could hear a sermon repeated. See the schedule below for next week. March 21 Grace-Benson: Jesus Our Great High Priest Serves at a Great Altar
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Supper Worship
Grace-Sahuarita: Jesus Is Our Compassionate High Priest
10 AM 6 PM 7 PM
Worship Supper Worship
Grace-Tucson: Jesus Our Great High Priest Makes Us Priests
10 AM 6 PM 7 PM
Worship Supper Worship