The Worship of God Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Lift High the Cross

Text: George W. Kitchin, Michael R. Newbolt, Music: Sydney H. Nicholson

Copyright © 1974, Hope Publishing Company

All rights reserved, Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-722998

Here, Master, In This Quiet Place

Text: Fred Pratt Green, Copyright © 1974, Hope Publishing Company

Music/Harm: Annabel M. Buchanan, Copyright © 1938, J. Fisher Bros. All rights reserved, Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-722998

I Know Whom I Have Believed

Text: Daniel W. Whittle, 1883, Public Domain

Music: James McGranahan, 1883, Public Domain

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Scriptures this morning are 1 Kings 17:17-24, and Hebrews 11:35-40. From 1 King 17: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; his illness was so severe that there was no breath

left in him. 18She then said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to cause the death of my son!” 19But he

said to her, “Give me your son.” He took him from her bosom,

carried him up into the upper chamber where he was lodging, and laid him on his own bed. 20He cried out to the LORD,

“O LORD my God, have you brought calamity even upon the widow with whom I am staying, by killing her son?” 21Then he

stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried out to

the LORD, “O LORD my God, let this child’s life come into him again.” 22The LORD listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the

child came into him again, and he revived. 23Elijah took the

child, brought him down from the upper chamber into the house, and gave him to his mother; then Elijah said, “See,

your son is alive.” 24So the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in

your mouth is truth.”

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Hebrews 11: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection. 36Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even

chains and imprisonment. 37They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went

about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented— 38of whom the world was not worthy. They

wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in

the ground. 39Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, 40since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from

us, be made perfect. (NRSV) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Holy Wisdom, Holy Word…Thanks be to God.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Gospel Lesson this morning is Mark 9:14-28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around

them, and some scribes arguing with them. 15When the whole crowd

saw him, they were immediately overcome with awe, and they ran

forward to greet him. 16He asked them, “What are you arguing about

with them?” 17Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought you my son; he has a spirit that makes him unable to

speak; 18and whenever it seizes him, it dashes him down; and he

foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid; and I asked your

disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.” 19He answered them, “You faithless generation, how much longer must I be among you?

How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him to me.” 20And

they brought the boy to him. When the spirit saw him, immediately it

convulsed the boy, and he fell on the ground and rolled about, foaming at the mouth. 21Jesus asked the father, “How long has this been

happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. 22It has often cast

him into the fire and into the water, to destroy him; but if you are able

to do anything, have pity on us and help us.” 23Jesus said to him, “If

you are able! —All things can be done for the one who believes.” 24Immediately the father of the child cried out, “I believe;

help my unbelief!” 25When Jesus saw that a crowd came running

together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You spirit that

keeps this boy from speaking and hearing, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!” 26After crying out and convulsing

him terribly, it came out, and the boy was like a corpse, so that most

of them said, “He is dead.” 27But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted

him up, and he was able to stand. 28When he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

(NRSV)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the Gospel of the Lord…Praise be to You, O Christ.

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