Second Sunday in Lent
February 28th, 2010O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!
How often I wanted
to gather your children together.
SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT
It’s a Control Issue!
February 28, 2010
AS WE GATHER
Those who reject God’s prophets and God’s Son are those whose destiny is destruction. But to those who stand firm in the Lord and His power, the glories of heaven will be revealed, as Jesus gathers the faithful to Himself. As we are gathered by Christ through the cross, we are enabled by faith to willingly relinquish all power, authority, and control to Him.
”The Lord be with you”
Ruth 2:4, Luke 1:28, and 2 Thessalonians 3:16
OLD TESTAMENT READING Jerimiah 26:8-15
EPISTLE Philippians 3:17 - 4:1
HOLY GOSPEL Luke 13:31-35
Listen to Sermon 2010-02-28
HYMN ….”All Praise to God, Who Reigns Above” TLH 19 Lyrics
HYMN OF THE DAY ” Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart ” TLH 429 Lyrics
MUSIC DURING DISTRIBUTION
“Jesus Sinners Will Receive” TLH 324 Lyrics
“Jerusalem, My Happy Home” TLH 618 Lyrics
CLOSING HYMN.. The Royal Banners Forward Go TLH 168 Lyrics
WORSHIP HELPS-THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT
Psalm 126, Exodus 3:1-8A, 10-15, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13
LUTHER ONCE WROTE…..
From Martin Luther’s 1528 Confession of Faith
As to anointing with oil, if this were done according to the Gospel, Mark 6:13 and James 5:14, I would let it pass; but to make a sacrament of it will not do. For just as instead of vigils and masses for the soul we might preach a sermon concerning death and eternal life, and thus, in connection with the burial of the dead, pray and meditate on our end (as the ancients seem to have done), so also it were well to visit the sick, pray with them and admonish them, and if any one wishes besides this to anoint them with oil they should have liberty to do so in God’s name.
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF CONCORD
2ND SUNDAY IN LENT
FORMULA OF CONCORD, SOLID DECLARATION
ARTICLE II, FREE WILL
If a person will not listen to preaching or read God’s Word, but despises God’s Word and congregation, and so dies and perishes in his sins, he cannot comfort himself with God’s eternal election or receive His mercy. For Christ, in whom we are chosen, offers to all people His grace in the Word and holy Sacraments. He sincerely wants it to be heard. He has promised that where two or three are gathered together in His name and have His holy Word, He will be in their midst (Matthew 18:20).
When such a person despises the instrument of the Holy Spirit and will not listen, no injustice is done to him if the Holy Spirit does not enlighten him but allows him to remain in the darkness of his unbelief and to perish. For it is written about this matter, “How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!” (Matthew 23:37).
In this respect it may well be said that a person is not a stone or block. For a stone or block does not resist the person who moves it. It does not understand and doesn’t care what is being done with it. But a person with his will resists God the Lord until he is converted. It is true that a person before His conversion is still a rational creature, having an understanding and will. However, he does not understand divine things. (paragraphs 57-59)
Condensed from CONCORDIA: THE LUTHERAN CONFESSIONS, copyright 2005 by Concordia Publishing House. Used by permission. All rights reserved.