The First Sunday in Advent
As We Gather
Advent means coming.
For the last few weeks we have been anticipating Jesus’ second coming at
the end of all time. In the Season of
Advent we prepare to celebrate Christ’s first coming all the while keeping our
eyes on Jesus’ second coming in triumph and glory. At Jesus’ Triumphal Entry
into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the crowds recognized the coming of the long
promised King. We know that this King
was born in the Royal City of Bethlehem, died in the Regal City of Jerusalem
and rules heaven and earth for the sake of His faithful people. He will one day
come again to judge both the living and the dead.
Hymn ~ “Savior of the Nations,
Come” ............................. LSB 332
Divine
Service – Setting 1
Page
151
LIGHTING
THE ADVENT WREATH - THE FIRST CANDLE:
P As we light the first candle on our Advent
wreath, we confess that Jesus, the wondrous child, is also the light divine,
who came forth from the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the
Virgin Mary as the Prophet Isaiah long ago foretold: “Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and shall call his name Immanuel.”
C Savior of the nations, come,
Virgin’s Son, make here Your home!
Marvel now, O heav’n and earth,
That the Lord chose such a birth. Amen.
Introit
Behold, your king is com- |
ing to you;*
righteous and having sal- | vation.
To you, | O Lord,*
I
lift | up my soul.
O my God, in you I trust; let
me not be | put to shame;*
let not my enemies exult | over me.
Indeed, none who wait for you shall be | put
to shame;*
they shall be ashamed who are wantonly | treacherous.
Glory be to the Father and | to the Son*
and to the Holy | Spirit;
as it was in the be- | ginning,*
is
now, and will be forever. | Amen.
Behold, your king is com- |
ing to you;*
righteous and having sal- | vation.
Ps. 25:1–3; antiphon: Zech. 9:9b, alt.
Collect of the Day
P Stir up Your
power, O Lord, and come, that by Your protection we may be rescued from the
threatening perils of our sins and saved by Your mighty deliverance; for You
live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Reading from the Book of Concord
The Augsburg Confession, Article III – The
Son of God
Our churches teach that the Word, that is, the Son of
God [John 1:14], assumed the human nature in the womb of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. So there are two natures—the
divine and the human—inseparably joined in one person. There is one Christ, true God and true man,
who was born of the Virgin Mary, truly suffered, was crucified, died, and was
buried. He did this to reconcile the
Father to us and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for
all actual sins of mankind [John 1:29].
He also descended into hell, and truly rose again on
the third day. Afterward, He ascended
into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. There He forever reigns and has dominion over
all creatures. He sanctifies those who
believe in Him, by sending the Holy Spirit into their hearts to rule, comfort
and make them alive. He defends them
against the devil and the power of sin.
The same Christ will openly come again to judge the
living and the dead, and so forth, according to the Apostles’ Creed.
Readings from Holy Scripture
Old Testament Lesson Isaiah
64:1–9
1Oh that
you would rend the heavens and come down,
that the
mountains might quake at your presence—
2as when fire kindles brushwood
and the
fire causes water to boil—
to make
your name known to your adversaries,
and that
the nations might tremble at your presence!
3When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came
down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4From of old no one has heard
or
perceived by the ear,
no eye has
seen a God besides you,
who acts
for those who wait for him.
5You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
those
who remember you in your ways.
Behold,
you were angry, and we sinned;
in our
sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
6We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all
our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all
fade like a leaf,
and our
iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7There is no one who calls upon your name,
who
rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you
have hidden your face from us,
and have
made us melt in the hand of our iniquities.
8But now, O Lord,
you are our Father;
we are
the clay, and you are our potter;
we are
all the work of your hand.
9Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
and
remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your
people.
P Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion
C Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem
P Behold, your king is coming to you;
C righteous
and having salvation.
P Blessèd is he who comes in the name of the
Lord.
C From the house of the Lord we bless you.
Zech. 9:9; Ps. 118:26, alt.
Epistle Lesson 1 Corinthians 1:3–9
3Grace to you and
peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
4I give thanks to my God
always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5that
in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6even
as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7so that you
are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our
Lord Jesus Christ, 8who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in
the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9God is faithful, by whom you were
called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
P Lift up your heads, O gates!
C And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may
come in.
Ps. 24:7
Holy Gospel Mark
11:1–10
1Now when they drew
near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent
two of his disciples 2and said to them, “Go into the village in
front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on
which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says
to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send
it back here immediately.’” 4And they went away and found a colt
tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. 5And some
of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6And
they told them what Jesus had said, and they let them go. 7And they
brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. 8And
many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that
they had cut from the fields. 9And those who went before and those
who followed were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the Lord! 10Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!
Hosanna in the highest!”
Hymn ~ “The Advent of Our King” ........................................ LSB
331
Sermon
The Coming Kingdom
Mark
11:1–10
Offertory ~ “O Come, O Come,
Emmanuel” ...................... LSB 349
(Stanza 1)
O
come, O come, Emmanuel,
And
ransom captive Israel
That
mourns in lonely exile here
Until
the Son of God appear.
..... Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall
come to thee, O Israel
It is truly good, right, and
salutary that we should at all times and in all places give thanks to You, holy
Lord, almighty Father, everlasting God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, whose
way John the Baptist prepared, proclaiming Him the promised Messiah, the very
Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and calling sinners to
repentance that they might escape from the wrath to be revealed when He comes
again in glory. Therefore with angels
and archangels and with all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your
glorious name, evermore praising You and saying:
Distribution Hymns
“Draw Near and Take the Body of
the Lord”........... LSB 637
“Jesus Shall Reign”....................................................................... LSB
832
Hymn ~ “Hark the Glad Sound” .................................................. LSB
349
+ Silent Prayer +
All scripture quotations are from The Holy
Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a
division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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