Updated 06/26/2009

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Sermon

        Text: Genesis 32:22-32

        Theme: A Great Cloud of Witnesses - Jacob the Deceiver,

                     Transformed into Israel, the Prince of God

In spite of the powerful opposition of the devil and the world and our own sinful flesh, the kingdom, i.e., Christ’s rule in people’s hearts, is planted and is glorious.  But that planting is always humble and the glory unseen.  For the church in the world imitates Christ in his humiliation, not in his exaltation.  The existence of the church and the true glory of her members are articles of faith, not sight.  In faith she strives now to be faithful to the Word, her source, until faith becomes sight in heaven.

THE PSALM OF THE DAY: Psalm 92

We are the plantings of the Lord in his household, the Church.  Since that is altogether his doing and not the result of our merit or decision, we give him thanks, worship and adore him for his grace.

THE FIRST LESSON: Ezekiel 17:22-24

The church of every age should, according to reason, perish.  And to be sure, if it were up to the merit of her members or the whim of the world, she would perish in an instant.  But it is not up to men.  God himself renews her, sustains her, strengthens her, and gives her fruit.  Her ultimate goal and glory is the glory of her Lord, who keeps his promise that all may know that he alone is the Savior.

THE SECOND LESSON: 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Were we to judge only by sight, our whole existence would be one of doom and despair.  For mortality is our inheritance as the result of sin.  Even now the house in which we live, the one seen, is decaying.  But nevertheless we are confident and courageous.  For God himself has come with his Spirit to live in us by his Word.  And he is not mortal, nor is the life he gives in the gospel.  Not for death and decay did he save us, but for immortality with him.  (Note carefully the Greek verbs in verse 10.)

THE GOSPEL LESSON: Mark 4:26-34

St. Augustine says that all things in the visible world mirror something in the spiritual world.  How lowly is the sowing of seed in the dirt; how wondrous the result!  How insignificant, almost invisible, the mustard seed; how magnificent its growth!  The lowly Word is preached and life comes to the dead soil of the human heart.  The lowly Word grows into the magnificent planting of the Lord and performs its function to the glory of God in the world.  We do not understand it; we do not always see it.  But the Lord speaks, and it is done!

Readings for the Fourth Week of Pentecost

M       Mark 2:1-12

          Jeremiah 14:7-9

T        Judges 10:6-16

          Luke 7:36-50

W       Mark 2:13-17

          Luke 15:11-32

TH      Romans 4:1-8

          Romans 4:16-25

F        Romans 5:1-5

          Romans 5:6-11

S        1 John 2:1-6

          Isaiah 43:22-28

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