1 Year Lectionary – Third Sunday After the Epiphany – Sunday, January 23, 2022 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough
| Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough: |
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| 0:28 | the holy gospel according to saint matthew the eighth chapter [Music] |
| 0:39 | when Jesus came down from the mountain great crowds followed him and behold a leper came to him and knelt before him |
| 0:45 | saying lord if you will you can make me clean and Jesus stretched out his hand and |
| 0:51 | touched him saying i will be clean and immediately his leprosy was cleansed and |
| 0:57 | Jesus said to him see that you say nothing to anyone but go show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that |
| 1:03 | moses commanded for a proof to them when he entered capernaum a centurion came |
| 1:08 | forward to him appealing to him lord my servant is lying paralyzed at home suffering terribly and he said to him i |
| 1:15 | will come and heal him but the centurion replied lord i am not worthy to come |
| 1:21 | not worthy to have you come under my roof but only say the word and my servant will be healed |
| 1:26 | for i too am a man under authority with soldiers under me and i say to one go when he goes to another come and he |
| 1:32 | comes and to my servant do this and he does it and when Jesus heard this he marveled and said to those who followed |
| 1:37 | him truly i tell you with no one in israel have i found such faith i tell you many will come from the east and the |
| 1:43 | west recline at the table with abraham and isaac and jacob in the kingdom of heaven while the sons of the kingdom |
| 1:49 | will be thrown out into outer darkness in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth and to the centurion |
| 1:55 | Jesus said go let it be done for you as you have believed and the servant was healed at that very moment this is the |
| 2:01 | gospel of the lord in the name of Jesus amen i am not ashamed of the gospel the |
| 2:07 | gospel is the power of god unto salvation and today in our gospel text we’re going to do a little parallel work |
| 2:15 | if we if you don’t mind and that is you’ll note that our gospel text begins with these words when Jesus came down |
| 2:21 | from the mountain have you noticed that in the bible mountaintop experiences sometimes are super |
| 2:28 | duper important in and super duper that’s a very tight and very precise theological term |
| 2:34 | that we use is right you guys don’t look like you’re buying it okay but the idea here is is |
| 2:42 | that you’ll remember god was at mount sinai that’s where the children of israel received the law |
| 2:49 | now does the law save you yeah no not not even close the law condemns you and shows you your need of |
| 2:56 | a savior so mountains are kind of important and if you remember when god gave the law you know |
| 3:02 | it was like there was thunderings and rumblings on the top of mount sinai and |
| 3:07 | the people basically after hearing god say thou shalt have no other gods |
| 3:13 | you know i almost kind of you know see tim you know doing this thing you know what i’m saying |
| 3:19 | and those are you monty python folks anyway you kind of get the idea and when the people heard the voice of god and |
| 3:25 | the law giving they said you talked to god moses and let us know |
| 3:30 | what he says and moses ascended mount sinai and he disappeared for like 40 |
| 3:35 | days and god was giving him the law and if remember moses originally received |
| 3:41 | those stone tablets with a handwriting of god on them and while he was up there |
| 3:47 | the children of israel well they got a little antsy and you know something like that |
| 3:54 | if you look back at uh at exodus chapter 32 with me i’ll start at verse 1. |
| 4:01 | it says when the people saw that moses delayed to come down from the mountain the people gathered themselves together |
| 4:07 | to aaron and they said to him up make us gods who shall go before us what a |
| 4:13 | stupid sentence make us gods any |
| 4:19 | god created by a human being isn’t a god okay this shows you just the |
| 4:25 | magnitude of sin and how it completely blinds us they don’t even recognize like hey wait a second you know if i made a |
| 4:31 | god it wasn’t really a god they’re just not connecting two plus two here so up make us gods who will go |
| 4:38 | before us as for this moses the man who brought us up out of the land of egypt we don’t know what’s become of him so |
| 4:44 | aaron said to them take off the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives your sons your daughters bring them to |
| 4:50 | me so all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to aaron he received the |
| 4:56 | gold from their hand fashioned it with a graving tool made a golden calf and they s and he said they said these are your |
| 5:04 | gods o israel who brought you up out of the land of egypt |
| 5:11 | and then when aaron saw this he built an altar before it and aaron made a proclamation and said tomorrow shall be |
| 5:17 | a feast to yahweh this is no way to worship yahweh this is this is this is idolatry just rank and |
| 5:26 | it’s it’s stupid on its face but thus are the consequences of sin so they rose up |
| 5:32 | early the next day and they offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings next sentence and the people |
| 5:37 | sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play you can kind of think of this like a burning man festival you know maybe a |
| 5:44 | first version of woodstock you know sex drugs rock and roll with a golden calf and so the lord said to moses go down |
| 5:51 | your people whom you brought up out of the land of egypt they’ve corrupted themselves notice that god’s pawning |
| 5:57 | these people off on moses they’ve corrupted themselves they’ve turned aside quickly out of the way that i |
| 6:03 | commanded them they’ve made for themselves a golden calf and they have worshipped it and sacrificed to it and |
| 6:09 | said these are your gods o israel who brought you up out of the land of egypt so yahweh said to moses i’ve seen this |
| 6:15 | people and behold it’s a stiff neck people now therefore let me alone so that my wrath may burn hot against them |
| 6:21 | and i may consume them in order that i may make a great nation of you but moses implored yahweh his god and said oh |
| 6:27 | yahweh why does your wrath burn hot against your people whom you have brought out of the land of egypt with |
| 6:32 | great power and with a mighty hand why should the egyptians say with an evil intent did he bring them out to kill |
| 6:38 | them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth turn from your burning anger and relent from |
| 6:44 | this disaster against your people remember abraham isaac and israel your servants to whom you swore by your own |
| 6:51 | self and said to them i will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and all this land that i have promised i |
| 6:58 | will give to your offspring and they shall inherit it forever and yahweh relented from the disaster |
| 7:03 | that had he had spoken of bringing on his people and there here then verse 15 |
| 7:10 | moses turned and went down from the mountain so here comes moses |
| 7:16 | coming down from mount sinai and do you think this is going to go well this is you know this is like my mom’s showing |
| 7:22 | up when i haven’t done my chores and i’ve been dawdling and whoops yikes i’m in trouble that’s kind of the |
| 7:29 | point the law condemns us the law kills us so moses turned went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the |
| 7:35 | testimony in his hand tablets that were written on both sides on the front and on the back they were written the |
| 7:41 | tablets were the work of god the writing was the writing of god engraved on |
| 7:46 | tablets could you imagine if they found even just a couple of fragments of this thing today |
| 7:53 | if they found it i mean it it would be a sensation around the world people would flock from all over the |
| 7:58 | world to come see this so when joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted he said to moses there’s a noise |
| 8:05 | of war in the camp but he said it’s not the sound of shouting for victory or the |
| 8:10 | sound of the cry of defeat it’s the sound of singing that i hear and as soon as he came near the camp he saw the calf |
| 8:16 | and the dancing and moses’s anger burned hot and he threw the tablets out of his hands and |
| 8:23 | broke them at the foot of the mountain he took the calf that he had made and burned it with fire grounded in the |
| 8:28 | powder scattered it on the water and made the people of israel drink it |
| 8:34 | so coming down from mount sinai with the law well that didn’t really go |
| 8:39 | so well very condemning but in our gospel text you know Christ it says when Christ came down from the mountain what |
| 8:46 | mountain well in the preceding context in the gospel of matthew |
| 8:52 | Jesus has delivered his inaugural sermon called the sermon on the mount |
| 8:57 | now did Jesus come to give us a scolding did Jesus come to wield his sword and |
| 9:03 | slash and kill and burn the evildoers did he come to punish us no it says that |
| 9:09 | in scripture that god did not send his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world might be saved |
| 9:14 | through him and so you’ll remember in the in the sermon on the mount Jesus says words like blessed are the poor in |
| 9:21 | spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted and blessed are |
| 9:27 | you when people persecute you Christ came and he declares blessings and these blessings are only through the gospel |
| 9:33 | because of why he came and what he came to accomplish and so Jesus coming down from the mountain is met not only by |
| 9:40 | crowds he’s also met by a leper and i will remind you the mosaic covenant |
| 9:47 | required lepers to socially distance this is not fouchy who gave this order |
| 9:54 | it’s god all right and you’re going to note that there were very very strict rules this leper by being a leper would |
| 10:01 | have been declared unclean by a levitical priest he would have been required to live outside of the village |
| 10:09 | in a leper colony he would have been forbidden from attending church |
| 10:16 | and you can not touch other people as a leper because if you touch anybody who’s |
| 10:22 | clean who touches a leper becomes unclean and there’s a whole mosaic covenant |
| 10:27 | set of rigmarole rights in order to re-establish being clean and |
| 10:33 | the other part of this is that before there were face masks and personal protection |
| 10:39 | lepers were required to cover their mouths with their hand |
| 10:44 | and create a mask and say to people i’m unclean unclean unclean |
| 10:52 | yeah so you’ll note that god understood a thing or two about communicable diseases |
| 10:57 | all of that being said the story on its face |
| 11:02 | is amazing this leper is bold if i can use a term from steven furtick |
| 11:09 | he’s exercising audacious faith and audacious is kind of the right word here because he’s breaking a few of the |
| 11:16 | mosaic covenant laws by being around this crowd in the first place and what does he do he boldly comes and he kneels |
| 11:26 | before Jesus and you gotta note that any torah |
| 11:32 | observant jew is gonna be looking at this going whoa right and he says to Jesus |
| 11:38 | lord if you are willing if you will it you can make me clean |
| 11:46 | this guy has faith he has true honest to goodness faith it just |
| 11:52 | shows up in this one sentence like you wouldn’t believe number one he calls Jesus lord he is lord but number two |
| 12:00 | you’ll note that true saving faith always trusts god according to his will |
| 12:06 | do we not pray in the lord’s prayer as Christ has taught us your kingdom come your will be done |
| 12:12 | true saving faith trusts and has confidence in the goodness of god to the |
| 12:18 | point that even if god says no to your request you recognize that god has your |
| 12:25 | best interest in mind have you ever noted that sometimes the things we ask for in prayer can actually hurt us |
| 12:33 | i think of it like this you know this is an illustration this is not family history if when joshua my son was three |
| 12:40 | years old and we asked him what do you want for your birthday if he had said i want a machete |
| 12:47 | at three years old we would have said not on your life it ain’t happening okay because we know |
| 12:53 | what would happen as a three-year-old with a machete you would cut yourself you’d kill your sisters the cat and the |
| 12:59 | dog would be dead it would be a murder scene and we’d go to prison for giving you a machete all right but later in |
| 13:06 | life if he asked for a machete now sure you want a machete go for it you know you think that’s going to be something |
| 13:12 | that’s helpful his wife says no but you know but you get the idea here sometimes what |
| 13:17 | we ask for from god can actually hurt us and so |
| 13:23 | true saving faith prays that god’s will would be done |
| 13:28 | even if the thing i’m asking for is not going to be granted you know |
| 13:34 | david exemplified this in the book of 2nd samuel when absalom his son |
| 13:40 | was in the middle of the coup d’etat to get his father’s kingdom to topple so that absalom can become the king of |
| 13:47 | israel poor david had to skedaddle he was strategically in a non-defensible |
| 13:52 | position because if he stayed in jerusalem all absalom had to do was surround jerusalem and wait him out and so he had |
| 14:00 | to get out of jerusalem and so as david is leaving jerusalem we read these words |
| 14:05 | in 2nd samuel david says carry the ark of god back into the city if i find favor in the eyes of yahweh he |
| 14:13 | will bring me back and let me see both it and its and its dwelling place but |
| 14:19 | if he says i have no pleasure in you behold here i am let god do to me what |
| 14:25 | seems good to him and so this leper |
| 14:30 | if you will if it’s your will you can make me clean now it’s at this point i need to take a |
| 14:36 | little bit of a dig on today’s modern charismatics in the nar because they claim that we have |
| 14:43 | authority to speak to diseases and things and that the proper thing for us |
| 14:48 | Christians to do is never to pray your will be done because according to their |
| 14:54 | theology if you pray god’s will to be done then apparently you don’t have |
| 14:59 | faith faith that Jesus has given you authority over diseases but here’s the thing he hasn’t |
| 15:06 | so you’ll note the leper doesn’t say hey lord check this out leprosy i command you to leave my body |
| 15:13 | okay he doesn’t do that all right and anybody who would teach you to speak to disease |
| 15:21 | has you praying to the wrong thing leprosy can’t hear you cancer can’t hear |
| 15:27 | you whatever is ailing you can’t hear you in my case you’re creeping old age |
| 15:33 | it can’t hear me but Jesus can and so here in our first example of faith in |
| 15:40 | our gospel text this leper he’s worked it out he’s figured out from |
| 15:46 | the reports the little information that he has Jesus the crowds are following he’s |
| 15:53 | healing people he’s forgiving sins he’s changed water into wine the reports are |
| 16:00 | getting out and this guy has sorted it out and said that’s the messiah that’s |
| 16:05 | the one isaiah prophesied would be able to heal lepers and to make them clean |
| 16:12 | that he’s the one who would be able to give sight to the blind hearing to the deaf and knowing his bible he’s put two |
| 16:20 | and two together and he properly identifies Jesus for who he is |
| 16:26 | messiah and lord and so he knows that Christ can hear his |
| 16:33 | prayer and here’s the thing kneeling before Jesus he’s praying now if you want to sit there and say |
| 16:40 | yeah okay sure i’ll grant you that he’s praying but it’s different from me than |
| 16:45 | it is for him and the reason it’s different for me is because i can’t see Jesus but this guy got to see him |
| 16:53 | isn’t it funny how our sinful nature always wants to cast doubts like somehow there’s a difference |
| 16:59 | do you really think that there is a qualitative difference |
| 17:04 | between you praying on your knees or sitting down or standing |
| 17:11 | that you praying to Jesus that there’s a difference because you can’t physically see him |
| 17:17 | of course not Christ is omnipresent |
| 17:22 | there isn’t a place where he isn’t you can’t hide for him from Jesus in fact he |
| 17:28 | would be the worst person to have to hide from and hide and go see because he knows exactly where you are |
| 17:34 | right and he’s there with you the whole time i will never leave you or forsake you so |
| 17:40 | when you pray to Christ when you pray to Jesus it doesn’t matter if you can see him he |
| 17:46 | hears you just as loudly as he heard this petition from this leper who had |
| 17:52 | faith and so he humbly says lord if you will you can make me |
| 17:58 | clean i always have to point this bit out let me let me give you the contrast first you remember |
| 18:06 | in our old testament text the leper naaman from syria did elisha come out and touch |
| 18:13 | naaman no naaman shows up with his entire entourage which had to be quite |
| 18:19 | impressive with chariots and soldiers and all this kind of stuff and he’s got |
| 18:24 | 10 changes of clothes that’s a big deal he’s got he’s loaded with money he’s dressed regally he shows up at elijah’s |
| 18:31 | house and you can almost see how this goes down he arrives he expects the door to come open and for |
| 18:38 | elijah to come out and wave his hands and do something impressive does elijah come out no |
| 18:45 | he sends his servant gehazi and gohan you can almost see it like the door |
| 18:50 | creaking open and out comes gehazi are you the prophet no i’m servant |
| 18:57 | go go wash in the jordan seven times you’d be clean |
| 19:02 | elijah doesn’t come out right why because if elisha is in the presence of name in the leper who guess what |
| 19:09 | happens to elijah he becomes unclean elijah’s flesh is not life-giving flesh |
| 19:15 | as a result of it you are in the presence of something unclean you touch the unclean you become unclean |
| 19:22 | and everybody knows torah requires that you don’t touch anything unclean |
| 19:29 | so i always picture this like if there was a movie you know if if i could film this this is the way |
| 19:35 | i would depict it so here you got the guy this leper kneeling before Jesus lord if you will you can make me clean |
| 19:42 | and you can almost see peter like taking advantage of the moment going ah maybe this is a good time to maybe have a swig |
| 19:48 | of water from my canteen so he’s he’s drinking his water and the text says and Jesus stretched out his hand i almost |
| 19:54 | see peter like dropping his canteen and going you know and then everything goes into slow motion right |
| 20:01 | no Jesus don’t right as he reaches out his hand |
| 20:09 | and he touched the leper |
| 20:18 | awkward pause worked cool all right you kind of get the point is Jesus now unclean |
| 20:26 | but Jesus says i will it be clean and guess what immediately his |
| 20:33 | leprosy was cleansed and then Jesus said to him now you see that you say nothing to anyone Jesus was |
| 20:39 | trying to keep things on the dl because the crowds were following him they wanted to see the miracles maybe and |
| 20:45 | have people healed but they weren’t real Jesus doesn’t want to do miracles apart from also preaching the gospel to them |
| 20:52 | so see that you say nothing to anyone you go and you show yourself to the priest and offer the gift of moses commanded them for a proof to them |
| 20:59 | this is a great example of prayer and so you’ll note that in the epiphany season the revealing of Christ here it is |
| 21:06 | revealed that Jesus is the one who answers prayer that makes him god |
| 21:12 | all right that’s the best bit of all of this and note unlike moses Jesus coming |
| 21:17 | down from the mountain isn’t condemning and judging and losing his mind and getting angry |
| 21:24 | instead he’s coming to the very people that the law condemned lepers and he’s cleansing them |
| 21:32 | rather than casting them into outer darkness the contrast is stark and it’s quite |
| 21:40 | amazing but our gospel text gives us a second example of Christ answering |
| 21:46 | prayer and somebody having faith and of all people it’s a gentile roman soldier |
| 21:53 | now we learn from the gospel of luke and this is kind of fun when you do the you know the cross-reference work we |
| 21:59 | learned from the gospel of luke that initially what happened is is that the pharisees |
| 22:06 | and the and the people from the synagogue in capernaum they went on behalf of this roman soldier to try to |
| 22:12 | you know kind of smooth things out with Jesus and they said that he was worthy |
| 22:18 | to have Jesus heal his servant because |
| 22:23 | he built the synagogue in capernaum |
| 22:29 | let me ask you this do your good works merit anything from god |
| 22:36 | no yes like no and so what happens in the gospel of luke it he he changes his mind and says |
| 22:44 | no no no no no i’m not worthy and so that’s an important bit of all of this we learned this guy has real saving |
| 22:50 | faith so you can kind of connect the dots roman centurion probably stationed you know he got his |
| 22:57 | orders from the military top brass we’re going to station you in israel and he |
| 23:03 | gets there and he hears the word of god and he becomes a believer he’s one of |
| 23:09 | these guys who honors the word of god he sacrificially builds the synagogue this |
| 23:15 | is a guy who we can see has faith by his works but also by his true faith |
| 23:20 | humility and so we learn in this in our gospel text that the centurion appealed |
| 23:26 | to Christ and said lord my servant is lying paralyzed at home suffering terribly and Jesus said i’ll come and |
| 23:33 | heal him but then the centurion thought the better of it said lord i am not worthy |
| 23:39 | to have you come under my roof stop there for a second i’m not worthy |
| 23:46 | to have you come under my roof that’s a good confession he recognizes that he’s a sinner |
| 23:53 | and that Christ is holy he recognizes here also that Jesus can be prayed to |
| 23:58 | and we can see from his response and his understanding of the authority that Jesus has this guy has sorted it out too |
| 24:06 | Christ is the messiah he’s god in human flesh he’s emanuel he’s god with us and |
| 24:12 | he is praying not for himself he’s praying for his servant |
| 24:20 | he’s not praying for his own benefit he’s praying for the benefit of somebody else and so we learn from our gospel |
| 24:26 | text that you can bring your petitions to Christ for yourself you can and you |
| 24:31 | should bring your petitions to Christ on behalf of other people and here we learn that when you pray for somebody else |
| 24:39 | Jesus our great god and savior who is kind and merciful he |
| 24:44 | answers prayers on behalf of other people |
| 24:50 | and he answers prayer on behalf of the faith of the one making the petition |
| 24:56 | do you think prayer then for others is important indeed it is |
| 25:02 | so he confesses that he’s not worthy to have Jesus come under his under his roof but he says i too am a |
| 25:08 | man under authority with soldiers under me i say to one go he goes another come and he comes and to my servant do this |
| 25:15 | and he does it and then when Jesus heard this he marveled and said to those who followed |
| 25:20 | him and note here he is not focusing in on well this guy built the synagogue wow |
| 25:26 | this is a great man of works no he says i tell you it in no one in israel have i |
| 25:32 | found such faith now this is kind of an indictment it’s an indictment on Jesus’s |
| 25:38 | disciples first and foremost and we’ll see next week in the gospel for next week they haven’t quite sorted out who |
| 25:43 | Jesus is all right but this is also a huge indictment on the religious establishment of Jesus day the high |
| 25:50 | priest the sanhedrin the pharisees the scribes and those those people right |
| 25:56 | Jesus is pointing to this gentile roman centurion and said this guy has great |
| 26:02 | faith it’s greater than anyone in all of israel |
| 26:08 | yeah well that’s the thing isn’t it now this doesn’t mean that later on the |
| 26:14 | disciples will not also have great faith they will but the point is is that this fellow |
| 26:21 | recognizes who Jesus is the authority he has he understands his own unworthiness |
| 26:27 | does not dare to hold up his good works as somehow they are meritorious and earn |
| 26:32 | things from god and instead he recognizes who Jesus is and in faith |
| 26:38 | he says lord if you just say the word he’ll be healed and so Jesus says i tell you many will |
| 26:45 | come from the east and the west and they will recline at the table with abraham and isaac and jacob in the kingdom of |
| 26:50 | heaven and we too have been invited to recline at table with abraham isaac and jacob |
| 26:56 | even though some of us come from the great north that isn’t that the way you say the north |
| 27:01 | [Music] right even the great north people will come to worship and to recline at table while |
| 27:09 | those who are genetically jewish who do not believe and trust in Christ who do not have faith they’ll be thrown into |
| 27:15 | outer darkness in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth so the centurion Jesus said go that’d be done |
| 27:21 | for you as you have believed and it’s interesting to note here that when somebody comes to me for |
| 27:28 | pastoral counseling and they have a sin that they want to be unburdened from and so they will |
| 27:34 | engage in what we call private absolution with me one of the things i ask them at the very end as i ask them |
| 27:40 | this question do you believe that the forgiveness that i speak is not my forgiveness but Christ’s forgiveness |
| 27:48 | and they say yes i believe and then i say let it be done for you then as you have believed instead and by the command |
| 27:54 | of Christ i forgive you all of your sins and so you’ll note then that faith is not a |
| 28:00 | insignificant thing faith is practically and is everything without faith it is |
| 28:05 | impossible to please god and so we’ve noted now two different coming down the mountain experiences |
| 28:13 | but how is it possible that Jesus wasn’t behaving at all like moses when he comes |
| 28:18 | down from the sermon on the mount and from that mountain he’s not swinging his sword of judgment but he’s acting in |
| 28:25 | mercy and grace and kindness answering prayer and ah and basically giving to |
| 28:32 | people the petitions that they’ve asked for for themselves and for others how is this even possible |
| 28:37 | well it’s possible because Christ himself had to go to a different mountain himself and he’s on his way to |
| 28:43 | that one it’s called mount moriah sometimes referred to as mount zion that’s the place where he had to climb |
| 28:50 | he climbed up and he initially was began that climb by carrying his own cross but |
| 28:57 | he buckled under the load and somebody else had to help him and on that friday afternoon that friday morning Jesus bore |
| 29:04 | your sins and mine carried them to the top of mount moriah otherwise known as |
| 29:09 | golgotha and there he was nailed to his cross and he bled and died for your sins |
| 29:15 | and for mine so that you and i can be forgiven and pardoned so that god would not act in judgment against us but by |
| 29:23 | what Christ has done we would be reconciled to god and rather than judged we would be forgiven and pardoned |
| 29:30 | and as a result of it Jesus coming down from mount moriah from golgotha he now |
| 29:37 | bears the gifts of salvation that he won in his word in the absolution in his |
| 29:43 | body and blood given and shed for the forgiveness of his sins his blood which he adds to the waters of baptism each |
| 29:49 | and every one of us rather than getting what we receive receiving what we have earned we instead |
| 29:56 | receive from Christ forgiveness mercy grace pardon and |
| 30:02 | like these two men of faith in our gospel text a god who hears our prayers |
| 30:07 | and acts in our best interest and mercifully hears us |
| 30:13 | and grants the petitions at times that we pray for all of this because Christ when he went |
| 30:19 | up to mount moriah when he came down he came down having won the forgiveness and mercy of god |
| 30:25 | mountaintop experiences a big deal super-de-duper important if you know |
| 30:31 | what i mean in the name of Jesus amen |
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