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July 17th, 2011
FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
Genesis 50:15-21, Romans 12:14-21 or Romans 8:18-23, Luke 6:36-42
Christ's Mercy Is Ours to Show to Others. "Be merciful, even as your Father also is merciful" (Luke 6:36-42). The old Adam in us wants to condemn and seek vengeance. But the Lord says, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay" (Rom. 12:14-21). To condemn, to avenge yourself, is to put yourself in the place of God. It is to fail to trust that He is just. Ultimately, it is to disbelieve that Jesus suffered the full vengeance for all wrongs. Only Christ is merciful as the Father is merciful. He is the One Who overcame all evil with the good of His cross, forgiving even His executioners. Jesus is our Joseph, Who comforts us with words of pardon and reconciliation (Gen. 50:15-21). He is the One Who does not condemn but gives life that runs over. Only through faith in Christ are we sons of the Father--being merciful, forgiving, doing good to our enemies. For in Christ we know that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Rom. 8:8-13).
Holy Week Services
Easter Sunday [April 24th, 2011]
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EASTER SUNDAY
Job 19:23-27; 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 or 1 Corinthians 15:51-57; Mark 16:1-8
Christ's Resurrection Means That We Will One Day Be Raised. "Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed" (1 Cor. 5:7). By the shed blood of Christ, the Lamb of God, eternal death has passed over us. Now we pass with Christ through death into life everlasting. For Christ the crucified One is risen! The stone has been rolled away from the tomb, revealing that the tomb could not hold Him (Mark 16:1-8). Now our Redeemer lives eternally to save us from sin and Satan and the grave, and we can live in the sure hope of our own bodily resurrection with Christ. "After my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God" (Job 19:26). Feasting on the living Christ, Who is our meat and drink indeed, we boldly say: "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? . . . But thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (1 Cor. 15:54-55, 57).
Good Friday [April 22nd, 2011]
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GOOD FRIDAY
Isaiah 52:13-53:12; 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; John 18:1-19:42
Behold the Lamb of God, Who Takes Away the Sin of the World. Jesus, the Lamb of God, is led to the slaughter of His cross as the sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the world. "Despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief" (Is. 53:3), He is the righteous Servant who justifies many by His innocent suffering and death. He bears our griefs and carries our sorrows; He is wounded for our transgressions; He is crushed for our iniquities; He suffers our chastisement, so that "with His stripes we are healed" (Is. 53:4-5). As the Son of God, He fulfills the Law for us in human flesh, and so fulfills the Scriptures (John 19:7, 24). For in Christ, "God was reconciling the whole world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them" (2 Cor. 5:19).
Holy Thursday [April 21st, 2011]
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HOLY (MAUNDY) THURSDAY
Exodus 12:1-14 or Exodus 24:3-11; 1 Corinthians 11:23-32; John 13:1-15 (34-35)
Let Us Love One Another, as Christ Jesus Has Loved Us. "For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes" (1 Cor. 11:26). By eating His body and drinking His blood, we proclaim to all the world that Jesus is, indeed, our Passover Lamb (Ex. 12:1-14), who was sacrificed for us on Calvary. In Christ, the Lord remembers us in mercy and remembers our sin no more; He forgives us all our iniquity. With such love, he "loved His own who were in the world," and even loves us "to the end" (John 13:1). As He washes us and feeds us in love, let us love one another, just as He has loved us (John 13:34).
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod 2003 - 2011
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