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Know the Time: The Present Joy—3rd Sunday in Advent

12/15/2013

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The 3rd sermon in a series called "Know the Time":
1st Sunday in Advent: "KtTime: The Day of the Lord"
2nd Sunday in Advent: "KtT: The Day of His Coming"
3rd Sunday in Advent: "KtT: The Present Joy"
4th Sunday in Advent: "KtT: The Time of Fulfillment"

Isaiah 40:1-8
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Matthew 11:2-10

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In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  

The last two weeks we've been talking about the chairon of the Lord—the appointed times for His great and glorious things to happen.  Specifically, we've been talking about two days both often referred to as the Day of Lord in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.  The first Day was the Day of God's judging and smiting of sin.  It was the Day when He became victor over sin.  When sin's power was broken.  Its force stopped.  It was an awful day.  A fearful day.  A day of darkness and rumbling.  The earth, the heavens, and God's temple in Jerusalem all reverberated with the judgement that occurred that Day.  We call that Day Good Friday.  The Day the Lord died for sin.  Crushing it in Himself. 


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There's Fear and Fear, and Then There's FEAR---3rd Sunday in Advent

12/16/2012

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No audio available this week.  
Isaiah 40:1-8
Psalm 85:9
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Matthew 11:2-10

In the name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.  
“His salvation is near to those who fear Him.” (Psalm 85:9) “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Psalm 111:1; Proverbs 9:10)  But we don’t believe that today.  We have an aversion to the word “fear”.  We think that it is an inappropriate word to use for God.  So we explain it away saying things like, “‘Fear’ really just means ‘reverence.’” So that the reverence of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.  And that wording might even be true if we could actually be reverent.  But we’re not a reverent society.  We have lost something over the last generation or so.  Our society has an aversion to the basic concept of reverence.  People from other parts of the world often notice that when they come to North America.  It’s one of the reasons why Muslims call us godless.  Even a Christian from Papua New Guinea who came to study at one of our Lutheran seminaries in the U.S. when asked of his experience here said, “What I learned was excellent, but their worship is something else.  For Christians here nothing is sacred.  They have no reverence.”  

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Don't Judge Me! -- 3rd Sunday in Advent

12/11/2011

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Isaiah 40:1-8
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Matthew 11:1-10

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
We all fear judgement.  We fear God’s judgement when we die and people’s judgement every day.  Will the kids at school accept me or reject me?  Will the bullies at work sneer at me again?  Will the ladies at church accept me or snub me once more?  Will my family members continue to treat me like they wished I wasn’t there?  Judgement.  It’s a word that has such negative connotations for us.  We fear it.  “Please, don’t judge me,” we say.  Some claim they don’t even think about it.  In confidence they act as though they’ve never thought twice about what people think of them.  But even the confident or the blessedly ignorant hurt when people judge & reject them.  

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