Hope We Still Belong | Sermon for May 10, 2020

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Immanuel Lutheran Church - LCMS Hope We Still Belong | Sermon for May 10, 2020 Worship Service for The Fifth Sunday of Easter Rev. Gregory Mech | May 10, 2020 | Mother’s Day | Immanuel Lutheran Church ONLINE – Joplin, MO | Today’s Sermon: “Hope We Still Belong “ See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Learn about our Re-Opening Plan. Click here. Use these Easy Devotions and Daily Scripture Readings with your family! Taking Faith Home. Thank you for supporting Immanuel Lutheran financially. Learn more at immanueljoplin.com/GIVE. Martin Luther School is Joplin’s Lutheran School, serving children from age 2 through 8th grade. Learn more and receive a FREE Educational Success Consultation! Call 417-624-1403. Special thanks to all who helped to make this broadcast possible today:Rev. Gregory Mech, DCE Jason Glaskey, organist Betty Lingenfelter, George Haubein, Beth Haubein, Samuel Glaskey. “As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 2:2-10 is the text for Today’s Sermon from Pastor Mech entitled, “Hope We Still Belong.” Divine Service, Setting Four INVOCATION, CONFESSION and PRAYER of GOD’S PEOPLE In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19 Amen. Our help is in the name of the LORD,  Who made heaven and earth. Psalm 124:8 If You, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O LORD, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared. Psalm 130:3-4  Since we are gathered electronically to hear God’s Word and call upon Him in prayer and praise, let us first consider our unworthiness and confess before God and anyone with us at this time that we have sinned in thought, word, and deed, and that we cannot free ourselves from our sinful condition.  As He has made us His people, let us take refuge in the infinite mercy of Almighty God, our heavenly Father, seeking His grace for the sake of Christ, and saying, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner.” Almighty God, have mercy upon us, forgive us our sins, and lead us to everlasting life. Amen. Almighty God, merciful Father, in Holy Baptism You declared us to be Your children and gathered us into Your one, holy Church, in which You daily and richly forgive us our sins and grant us new life through Your Spirit. Be in our midst, enliven our faith, and graciously receive our prayer and praise; through Your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Psalm 146 (antiphon -liturgical verse) Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. Alleluia! Alleluia! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live;    I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Put not your trust in princes,    in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;    on that very day his plans perish. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,    whose hope is in the Lord his God,who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed,    who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;the Lord opens the eyes of the blind.The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;    the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the sojourners;    he upholds the widow and the fatherless,    but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. The Lord will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations.Praise the Lord! 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. Christ is risen! He is risen indeed. Alleluia! ♫ KYRIE Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy. ♫ GLORIA IN EXCELSIS To God on high be glory and peace in