#31 The King Will Be Glorious After His Death

Isaiah 52:13. Behold, 7 My Servant shall prosper, He shall be exalted and lifted up. … Behold, My Servant shall prosper. Here we begin chapter 53. Until now you have heard Christ’s kingdom depicted in the cross and that it is carried forward by faith and the Word alone. Yet that leading of faith, the Word, and the cross is not without deliverance and protection. In this chapter the prophet speaks primarily of the Head of the Kingdom as he treats of the person of the King and the manner of His deliverance. This is the foremost passage on the suffering and resurrection of Christ, and there is hardly another like it. Therefore we must memorize this passage, for it certainly drives out the stubbornness of the Jews. The Jews cannot deny that this passage speaks of Christ. They indeed grant the glories of Christ in this chapter, but they are unwilling to grant His cross and sufferings. Yet this is what the text says: This King will be glorious, but after His death. This indicates that this King is different from an ordinary one, since He will begin His reign after death. Behold, My Servant shall prosper. He calls Him Servant as He did above (42:1 f.): “He will not cry or lift up His voice, or make it heard in the street.” There He is not just called Servant, as the monastics think, but He is a servant, that is, a minister of the Word, an apostle and an ambassador. What will this Servant do? He shall prosper. (Luther’s Works, v. 17, pages 215).

For Illumination 4

GRANT, O Lord, we beseech Thee, that we, may be illuminated by Thee the Light, directed by Thee the Way, corrected by Thee the Truth, quickened by Thee the Life; who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.33).

Divine Service The Resurrection – April 9, 2023

Order of Divine Service I, p. 136  Lutheran Worship
Hymn “I Know that My Redeemer Lives” LW 264, TLH 200
Readings:  Isaiah 52:13-15, 1 Corinthians 5:6-8, St. Mark 16:1-8
Hymn of the Day: “Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #29, LW 123, TLH 195)
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Jesus Christ Is Risen, Today” LW 127, TLH 199
“Lo, Judah’s Lion Wins the Strife” LW 146, TLH 211
“At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing” LW 126
“The Day of Resurrection” LW 133, TLH 205
Closing Hymn “Good Christians Friends, Rejoice and Sing”  LW 129

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Service Bulletin:  Resurrection-of-Our-Lord-Divine-Service-for-Online-4-9-2023.pdf


Picture:  The Luther Bible 1534: (Volume 2) Ezekiel 37 – The Dry Bones, #0219

Easter Vigil, Part 2- April 8, 2023

Easter Vigil, Part 2 from 2023

Part 1 of the vigil is on the previous post.  CLICK HERE

Service of Light
Service of Readings
Hymn #9 “All You Works of God”
Service of Baptism/Confirmation
Hymn “All Who Believe and Are Baptized”  LW 225

This is Part 2 of the vigil.
Service of Communion
Dignus Est Agnus
Colossians 3:1-4,
Sequence Hymn #124
St. Matthew 28:1-10
Hymn of the Day “Ere Yet the Dawn Hath Filled the Skies” ASBH #28
Sermon
Offertory Hymn “He Is Arisen! Glorious Word!” LW 520, TLH 189
Communion liturgy, p.144
Hymn: “Come, You Faithful, Raise the Strain” LW 141, TLH 204
Hymn “Christ the Lord is Risen Again”  TLH 190

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Service Bulletin:  Easter-Vigil-for-2023-Online.pdf

Easter Dawn Matins – April 9, 2023

Easter Sunday Matins

Order of Matins, p.208 Lutheran Worship
Office Hymn “Like the Golden Sun Ascending”  TLH 207
Psalmody:  Psalm 92, 1, 2, 3, 99
Readings:  1 Corinthians 15:51-57, St. John 20-1-18
Sermon
After Benedicamus, Paschal Blessing, LW p.244-249

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Service Bulletin:  Easter-Dawn-Psalms-Full-Page-2023.pdf


Picture:   The Luther Bible 1534: 1 Kings 6 – Solomon’s Temple, #459

#30 Place the Loving Christ into Your Heart

Isaiah 53:12. Fourth: And made intercession for the transgressors. There he commends His patience to us. He was heartily glad to do it. First He depicts the suffering, second, the kind of suffering, third, the power of the suffering, and fourth, His patience. Thus He compassionately prayed for transgressors and crucifiers and shed tears for them and did not deal with them with threats. Who can place the Christ thus depicted in love into his heart, as He is here described? Oh, we would be blessed people if we could believe this most noble text, which must be magnified. I would wish it to be honored in the church, so that we might accustom ourselves to an alert study of this text, to bring us to see Christ as none other than the One who bears and shoulders the burden of our sins. This figure is a solace to the afflicted, but to snoring readers these are nothing but idle words.  (Luther’s Works, v. 17, pages 231-232).

Adoration 3

To Jesus, the Life of our flesh, Who quickeneth Whom He willeth:  To Jesus, the Life of our soul, Who came that we might live more abundantly:  To Jesus, the Life of His Church, Who loved her and gave Himself for her:  Let all in earth, and in Paradise, reconciled by His death, and saved by His life, give glory and honor, worship and praise, now and for evermore. Amen. (Oremus, 1925, p.22).

Lauds on Holy Saturday – April 8, 2023

Order of Lauds
Psalmody:  Psalm 51, 92, 64, Canticle of Hezekiah, Psalm 150 (insert)
Readings:  1 Peter 3:17-22, St. Matthew 27:57-66
Hymn of the Day: “Ere Yet the Dawn Hath Filled the Skies” (The Augustana Service Book and Hymnal #28)
Sermon
Benedictus, p.217 Lutheran Worship

–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).

Service Bulletin:  Holy-Saturday-Psalm-Full-Page-4-8-2023.pdf


Picture:  The Luther Bible 1534: 1 Kings 22:29-40 – Ahaz killed by Archer, #495

#29 Let Us Believe in a Crucified Christ!

Isaiah 53:12. Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong. Here he repeats as if by an exclamation. Since He poured out His soul in death and was not simply dead but was numbered with the transgressors, the prophet in these words repeats the suffering of Christ. Here he says: He gave His life into death. With that battering ram he strikes the stubbornness of the Jews, who do not want to hear about the Christ who dies but who look for a Christ who never dies. Here the prophet in a very simple and expressive way depicts the manner of His death. He says He will die and then points with the fingers, He will be numbered with the transgressors, as if to say, “You Jews want to acknowledge your Christ. He will appear in such a form that He will die the most despised kind of death in the midst of robbers.” The Jews, who look for a glorious Christ before they will believe in a crucified one, did not want to see this text. This is the way it happens to us who are blind, although as for us, let us believe in the crucified One.

Yet He bore the sins of many. He has described the death. Now he delineates the force and power of His sufferings. He says, “He did not die in vain, but all promises of Scripture have been fulfilled, and all our sins have been taken away. No, He did not toil in vain by His death, but He died to fulfill the promises and to set us free.  (Luther’s Works, v. 17, pages 231).