LutheranLectionary.org

1 Year Lectionary – Sixth Sunday After Trinity – Sunday, July 24, 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:

Time Stamp	Transcript
0:27	The holy gospel according
0:29	to saint matthew the 5th chapter
0:32	[Music]
0:40	Jesus said
0:41	for i tell you unless your righteousness
0:43	exceeds that of the scribes and the
0:45	pharisees you will never enter the
0:47	kingdom of heaven you have heard that it
0:49	was said to those of old you shall not
0:51	murder and whoever murders will be
0:52	liable to judgment but i say to you
0:55	everyone who is angry with his brother
0:56	will be liable to judgment whoever
0:58	insults his brother will be liable to
1:00	the council whoever says you fool will
1:03	be liable to the hell of fire for if you
1:06	are offering your gift to the altar and
1:08	there remember that your brother has
1:09	something against you leave your gift
1:12	there before the altar and go first be
1:15	reconciled to your brother and then come
1:18	and offer your gift come to terms
1:20	quickly with your accuser while you are
1:22	going with him to court lest your
1:24	accuser hand you over to the judge and
1:26	the judge to the guard and you be put in
1:28	prison truly i say to you you will never
1:31	get out until you have paid the last
1:33	penny this is the gospel of the lord in
1:36	the name of jesus
1:38	all right here’s the words of christ i
1:40	tell you unless your righteousness
1:42	exceeds that of the scribes and the
1:44	pharisees you will never
1:47	enter the kingdom of heaven
1:50	how you all doing on that by the way
1:52	how’s your righteousness working out
1:53	you’ll note that our sinful nature
1:56	our old adam is um not exactly
1:59	spiritually adept not exactly keen on
2:02	figuring things out our old nature hears
2:05	these words unless your righteousness
2:07	exceeds that of the scribes and the
2:09	pharisees it goes out and says well sure
2:12	i can do that
2:14	in fact not even really thinking about
2:16	the implications of it i would note it’s
2:19	as foolish as trying to start a land war
2:21	in asia
2:23	or worse
2:25	starting a battle of the wits with a
2:27	sicilian when death is on the line
2:29	it’s it’s it’s even worse than that i
2:32	mean setting out to establish your own
2:34	righteousness is a lot like a redneck
2:36	sitting out in a lawn chair in his
2:38	driveway and he sees a dangerous
2:39	situation and says hold my beer
2:42	it doesn’t
2:43	work and you’ll note that the annals of
2:46	human history and of church history are
2:48	littered with the corpses of men
2:51	women and entire church bodies who’ve
2:54	set about to establish their own
2:57	righteousness
2:59	and it never ends well for them ever and
3:01	i would note in in our day and age y’all
3:03	remember westboro baptist church you
3:06	guys remember those yeah shirley phelps
3:09	roper and the phelps family
3:11	they were notorious for picketing places
3:14	in like the most cringy of situations
3:17	when we were at war in in the middle
3:19	east when coffins would come back with
3:22	military dead they would they would
3:24	protest the funerals
3:26	and they would hold up signs saying that
3:28	god hates america and god hates these
3:31	people and god hates that people right
3:34	apparently god was always really cheesed
3:36	off there was no love of god in in their
3:38	church so i thought it would be a wise
3:40	idea i invited shirley phelps roper onto
3:43	the fighting for the faith podcast
3:45	boy that was fun and in the very first
3:47	few minutes of that podcast
3:50	asked a couple of questions of shirley
3:52	phelps rover where in an unguarded
3:55	moment she admitted that she is not
3:58	sinless
3:59	that she still sins
4:01	and then at the right time in the
4:03	interview we were talking about their
4:05	behavior and the things they were doing
4:07	and then i reminded her of what she said
4:09	that she herself is not sinless and
4:13	i heard a click
4:14	and she disappeared that was the end of
4:16	the interview
4:18	so
4:18	all of that being said i know a thing or
4:20	two about trying to establish my own
4:24	righteousness and i’m going to note
4:25	something here
4:27	it can’t work for us
4:29	it will never work for us and so we are
4:32	stuck the words of christ must be taken
4:34	literally unless your righteousness
4:36	exceeds that of the scribes and the
4:38	pharisees you will never enter the
4:40	kingdom of heaven christ is not speaking
4:42	in hyperbole here and unless your
4:44	righteousness does exceed that of the
4:46	scribes and pharisees and by the world’s
4:48	standards and by the standards of
4:50	self-righteousness
4:52	the pharisees man they were way up there
4:54	i mean not only did they tithe
4:57	and obey god’s commands they created
4:59	like a whole bunch of other commands
5:01	that if you kept those commands you’d
5:02	never break god’s commands and then as
5:04	far as tithing is concerned these guys
5:06	even tied like 10 of their herbs in
5:09	their garden or as my friends would say
5:11	in the uk herbs i don’t know why they
5:12	call it that herbs in the garden ten
5:14	percent of the herbs man
5:16	and so you’ll know that by the way the
5:19	world looks at righteousness and people
5:21	who are holy and do-gooders and things
5:24	like that the pharisees are way up there
5:27	way up there and as well as for me i’m
5:30	kind of just merely mortal
5:32	um
5:33	i tried this and it never really
5:35	succeeded and there’s a reason for it if
5:38	think of it this way what was the
5:40	purpose of the law why was it given
5:43	was it given for us to say all right
5:45	here’s ten rungs of a ladder all we
5:48	gotta do is climb those ten rungs of
5:51	this ladder and then we’re in we show up
5:54	into heaven and god says well done way
5:56	to go
5:57	you move over jesus this you know
6:00	somebody else is ascended here right
6:03	that’s not the purpose of the law
6:05	paul is very clear the purpose of the
6:08	law is to show us our sin
6:11	it is a diagnostic tool to let you know
6:15	that you are steeped in ungodliness and
6:18	iniquity and you say they go but i’m
6:19	really not that bad yeah i know the
6:21	black knight from monty python said the
6:24	same thing it’s a mere flesh wound right
6:26	but it it’s worse than you can possibly
6:28	imagine let’s just walk through these
6:30	commandments shall we so god says you
6:33	will have no other gods before me first
6:35	commandment we should fear love and
6:37	trust in god above all things and here’s
6:40	the rub
6:42	have you noticed that life is hard
6:44	have you noticed that it’s filled with
6:45	difficulty and then all of a sudden
6:47	things are going okayish but as they’re
6:49	going okay and all of a sudden a huge
6:51	emergency pops up right maybe it’s that
6:54	you can’t pay your bills because you
6:56	can’t afford the gas anymore for your
6:58	truck inflation has made it so that
7:00	you’ve taken a hit financially and
7:02	you’re in dire distress because you
7:04	cannot figure out how to get the ends to
7:06	meet right
7:08	and so what do you do what do you do you
7:10	turn to a bottle of booze and you
7:12	disappear into the bottle or maybe you
7:14	decide that you’re just going to
7:16	run away and do netflix and non-stop and
7:20	lose sleep
7:21	you’ll note that whatever it is that you
7:23	turn to
7:24	to comfort you
7:26	to assuage your anxieties
7:29	that literally is your god
7:32	and you’ll note that in human
7:35	ways of thinking people have made all
7:37	kinds of weird things their deities from
7:40	money sex power to drugs you know just
7:44	the list goes on and on even etsy can be
7:47	a drug you got to be careful with that
7:48	etsy stuff i’m just i’m saying you know
7:51	it could it could be a false deed it’s
7:53	the thing that you turn to food and
7:55	shopping and stuff like this so all that
7:57	being said um
7:59	i think we can clearly say that we’ve
8:01	established that each and every one of
8:03	us we are
8:04	guilty of idolatry
8:07	that’s most certainly true
8:10	next one you shall not take the name of
8:11	the lord your god in vain
8:13	and the lord will not hold him guiltless
8:15	who takes his name in vain and this is
8:17	always like to point out this is the
8:19	pastor’s sin a lot of people don’t think
8:21	of it in these terms but we also are
8:23	guilty if you’re of layman of doing
8:25	similar things along this line so have
8:27	you ever said things like well you know
8:30	the god i believe in you know i just
8:32	believe that certain things are this way
8:34	and that god is this way and that he
8:35	would never do that thing and always the
8:37	thing that god would never do is punish
8:39	sinners for actually sinning right we
8:42	find some way of retooling things so
8:44	that evil now becomes love evil looks
8:47	good right and you sit there and this is
8:49	the deity i believe and you teach others
8:51	this oh that’s a great way of looking at
8:53	it we can just abandon the word of god
8:56	here because you’ve come up with a great
8:57	opinion right
9:00	yeah that’s called blasphemy
9:02	it’s a breaking
9:03	of the second commandment
9:06	and then let’s if i looked at the church
9:08	attendance records do we keep attendance
9:10	here i i just wonder you know the third
9:12	commandment remember the sabbath day to
9:14	keep it holy
9:16	yeah we should fear and love god so that
9:17	we do not despise preaching in his word
9:21	but hold it sacred
9:23	gladly hear
9:25	and learn it
9:27	ever woken up on a sunday and went
9:30	you know it’s kind of nice outside you
9:31	know it’s not freezing right now and
9:33	man those catfish are calling from the
9:35	red you know and
9:37	right and you’re thinking you know i
9:39	just i’d rather than go to church you
9:41	know what what i should do is like pack
9:43	up the car and maybe head off to the
9:44	lake right
9:47	and then
9:48	you missed a sunday and and another
9:50	sunday and a few sundays together and oh
9:53	yeah you’re really well rested when you
9:55	come back
9:57	right
9:58	but you’re going to note here you’ve
9:59	chosen
10:01	other things above the word of god when
10:03	you do that or when you look at your
10:05	watch and say rose bro how long is the
10:07	sermon going to be man you know
10:10	right
10:11	people have done that to me by the way
10:13	right
10:14	yeah you’ll note that despising god’s
10:16	word not wanting to hear it and learn it
10:18	that’s the breaking of the third
10:20	commandment how about this one honor
10:21	your father and your mother you say well
10:23	i i’ve got that one down mom i know
10:26	she’s a little loony but we treat her
10:27	kindly and dad of course he’s now passed
10:29	into glory and so i’ve got this one
10:31	covered right i said there well
10:34	wait a second here this also applies to
10:37	anybody who’s in authority over you
10:39	you’ll note that all authorities even
10:41	governmental authority gets its
10:42	authority from god through the families
10:45	so let me let me ask you um have you
10:47	dishonored the president
10:52	all right
10:54	this is getting a little uncomfortable
10:56	right
10:57	yeah i
10:58	may ever may not be guilty of doing such
11:00	things how about your boss do you have a
11:02	boss
11:03	right you know that guy who always makes
11:05	these really stupid decisions right and
11:09	and you’re sitting there going why
11:10	hasn’t hr sacked this right that
11:13	guy right
11:14	you’ll know you’ve broken another
11:15	commandment when you do this we’ll talk
11:17	about that one too so you’re going to
11:19	note honoring your father and mother
11:20	extends to your
11:23	yes so we’re all guilty of that you
11:25	shall not murder you you’ll note that in
11:26	our gospel text
11:28	which had no gospel in it at all
11:32	this was i was so tempted to say this is
11:34	the law of the lord you know praise to
11:36	you o christ right yes so tempted but
11:39	you’ll note christ he talking about
11:42	murder
11:43	you know
11:44	let’s find out if we’re a bunch of
11:45	murderers in here we got to be careful
11:46	how we say that because this is being
11:48	recorded we don’t want the authorities
11:49	to show up we also have to nuance this
11:51	stuff here but to christ he takes the
11:54	law and have you ever talked to somebody
11:56	and you said
11:57	they said something like you know you
11:59	know i know it says thou shalt not steal
12:01	but it’s only stealing and it’s only a
12:03	sin if you get caught right have you
12:05	ever talked to anybody like this i
12:06	actually work with a guy like that he
12:08	didn’t he didn’t stay in the job very
12:10	long for obvious reasons but all of that
12:12	being said you get people who basically
12:14	say listen as long as you haven’t really
12:16	pulled the trigger blown their head off
12:19	or stabbed them and they’ve stopped
12:21	breathing you’re not guilty of murder
12:23	jesus has a completely different view on
12:25	this and we’re going to note since he
12:27	rose from the dead we might be wise to
12:30	adopt his view he says you’ve heard that
12:32	it was said to those of you of old you
12:35	shall not murder whoever murders will be
12:36	liable to judgment so jesus now in a
12:39	true spinal tap moment takes the law and
12:41	cranks it to 11. he says but i say to
12:44	you
12:45	everyone who is angry with his brother
12:48	will be liable to judgment whoever
12:51	insults his brother will be liable to
12:53	the council whoever says you fool will
12:55	be liable to the hell of fire
12:58	[Music]
13:00	oops
13:02	yeah
13:04	and then what about this do you have any
13:07	unreconciled anger
13:09	towards your brother or maybe your
13:11	brother is angry at you and you haven’t
13:13	reconciled with him and you’re the one
13:16	who needs to fix things remember a few
13:18	weeks ago i said that i was going to
13:20	talk about this topic i knew it was
13:21	coming up in this text so if if you’re
13:24	suffering or people don’t like you
13:26	because you’re a jerk
13:27	you’re not suffering for jesus you’re
13:30	suffering because you’re a jerk that’s
13:32	how this works so when you have sinned
13:35	against somebody
13:37	you need to go and reconcile
13:40	with that person and jesus gives the
13:43	example if you’re offering a gift at the
13:45	altar a lot of people talk about this in
13:46	terms of communion it’s not really
13:48	directly talking about communion it has
13:50	implications along those lines but there
13:52	you are you’ve sinned against your
13:54	brother you’ve done him harm you’ve done
13:56	him wrong and you show up at church i’ve
13:58	got a gift for you god
14:01	uh-huh right
14:03	god’s really not interested in your gift
14:05	at the moment he says you you remember
14:07	that your brother has something against
14:08	you you’re gonna leave your gift there
14:10	leave it there before the altar and then
14:12	go
14:13	get out of here first you’re gonna need
14:14	to be reconciled to your brother and
14:16	then come offer your gift come to terms
14:19	quickly with your accusers while you’re
14:21	going with him to court lest your
14:22	accuser hand you over to the judge and
14:24	judge to the guard you get the idea here
14:27	right so um let’s let’s let’s kind of
14:29	review where we were in these
14:31	commandments here you shall not murder
14:33	uh
14:35	yeah it’s true um y’all are a bunch of
14:37	murderers
14:39	a bunch of idolatrous
14:41	blasphemous
14:43	sabbath sabbath-breaking
14:45	parent dishonoring
14:46	murderers
14:48	do i need to go on about adultery sit
14:50	there and go well i’ve been faithful to
14:52	my wife that’s fine that’s great but if
14:54	you’ve ever looked at anybody lustfully
14:56	you’re an adulterer
14:58	that means we’re all that
15:00	do not steal do not bear false witness
15:03	against your neighbor
15:05	oy
15:05	gossip it’s a big thing here it’s a big
15:08	social media runs on it
15:11	it’s also like jet fuel out here in the
15:13	middle of nowhere but yeah that’s a sin
15:16	how about coveting you know the coveting
15:19	sit there and go well coveting is a
15:21	thing that occurs right here in your
15:23	heart you don’t even have to do anything
15:25	you just got to look at your neighbor’s
15:27	combine and go
15:29	right
15:31	man i
15:32	wish i had that
15:34	right every year when apple has their
15:36	big premieres to explain what new
15:38	technology is coming out i have this
15:41	deflated feeling afterwards going the
15:43	computer i bought last year is so
15:46	inferior
15:48	right
15:49	coveting it’s yeah
15:52	so
15:53	yeah well so let’s kind of just hang
15:55	this out here
15:58	you all
15:59	do not have any righteousness that you
16:01	can boast of
16:03	neither do i
16:05	in fact y’all are a mess and so am i
16:08	so christ’s words
16:10	though what do we do with them
16:13	unless your righteousness exceeds that
16:14	of the scribes and the pharisees
16:16	you will never
16:19	never
16:20	enter the kingdom of heaven well that
16:22	rules out universalism by the way you
16:24	know some people will never enter the
16:27	kingdom of heaven so what are we to do
16:29	well here is where i have to cheat a
16:31	little bit i can’t exactly use these
16:33	these texts as you know exodus law
16:36	romans is talking about sanctification
16:38	and a baptismal reality that is true for
16:40	all christians and then our gospel text
16:43	well that was all
16:45	law
16:47	so we’re going to have to do a little
16:48	bit a bible study shall we
16:50	and so we’re going to note that long ago
16:53	in the prophet jeremiah
16:56	talking about a future reality that was
16:59	coming the days of the new covenant in
17:02	jeremiah 23 starting at verse 5 jeremiah
17:05	prophesied all these centuries millennia
17:08	ago behold the days are coming declares
17:11	yahweh
17:12	when i will raise up for david a
17:14	righteous branch
17:16	he shall reign as king and he will deal
17:19	wisely he shall execute justice and
17:23	righteousness in the land and in his
17:26	days judah will be saved israel will
17:28	dwell securely and this is the name by
17:30	which he will be called
17:33	yahweh
17:34	is our righteousness
17:37	this is a prophecy regarding christ
17:40	and here we hear that term righteousness
17:43	and it’s important because the name by
17:46	which christ will be called in this
17:48	prophecy is yahweh is our righteousness
17:52	we’ve heard from the prophet isaiah
17:54	those important words that he was
17:57	pierced for our transgressions he was
17:59	bruised for our iniquity the
18:00	chastisement the punishment that brought
18:03	us peace with god was upon him and that
18:05	god had laid on him jesus
18:09	the iniquity
18:11	of all of us
18:13	and so you’ll note there’s something
18:15	important that has happened
18:17	god has made christ to be
18:20	sin
18:22	he has borne your sin in his body on the
18:25	cross he languished on the cross being
18:28	nailed to it having been scourged
18:31	bleeding out
18:32	suffering
18:33	pain
18:35	and the agony of having being separated
18:37	from his father when
18:38	he cries out my god my god why have you
18:41	forsaken me this was all because your
18:43	sin and mine were laid on him
18:45	but you’ll note that in our epistle text
18:48	we hear that when we were baptized we
18:51	were baptized into christ’s death and
18:54	into his resurrection we were buried
18:56	therefore with him and we will also be
18:58	raised with him and the most amazing
19:01	thing has happened and that is is that
19:03	we have had our sin taken off of us and
19:06	imputed to christ
19:08	and by faith now
19:10	his
19:11	sinless righteousness
19:13	is given to us
19:15	indeed
19:16	jesus is
19:18	our righteousness
19:21	and now we begin to see it
19:23	there’s there’s a way out of it because
19:25	i can’t climb my way up through the law
19:28	something else has to give
19:31	paul writes it this way before faith
19:34	came we were all held captive under the
19:36	law we were imprisoned until the coming
19:38	faith would be revealed so then the law
19:41	was our guardian until christ came in
19:44	order that we might be justified
19:46	by faith
19:48	is the law then contrary to the promise
19:50	of god certainly not paul says if a law
19:53	had been given that could give life
19:55	then righteousness would indeed be by
19:58	the law
19:59	and the point is
20:00	righteousness isn’t by the law
20:02	try as you might
20:04	be as sincere as you can
20:07	struggle with sin be intentional really
20:10	go out there and try to conquer it and i
20:13	assure you you’re going to fall flat on
20:15	your
20:16	face
20:17	it doesn’t work like that and if you
20:20	think that you’re going to be able to
20:22	take your little
20:24	well
20:26	muddy yucky sin-filled good works
20:30	because every one of our good works is
20:32	still sinful and hold them up to god and
20:34	say hey look god
20:36	you should let me into heaven
20:38	you got another thing coming in fact a
20:41	good way to think about it is this
20:43	is that each and every one of us
20:46	not only were we conceived and born in
20:48	sin as we sung in our hymns today this
20:50	is absolutely true even though we are in
20:53	christ
20:54	we still have a sinful nature to contend
20:56	with
20:57	and trying to fight that thing on our
21:00	own or somehow earn salvation is as
21:03	foolish as something i used to do when i
21:05	was a kid back in the day
21:07	you lived in southern california um
21:10	we it was pretty much just sunny in 70
21:12	like all the time except for when it was
21:14	hot it was glorious but during the
21:16	during the summers my parents would take
21:17	us to the beach right and so this is the
21:20	days before i was a teenager and i
21:21	discovered girls because you know you
21:23	know before that girls were just icky
21:25	they had cooties you know you just kind
21:27	of avoided them at all costs and you
21:28	know because they would embarrass you so
21:30	when we would go to the beach i would do
21:32	this interesting thing if we would go to
21:34	the beach and it was low tide
21:39	there we go if we went to the beach and
21:41	it was low tide
21:42	what i would end up doing is is i would
21:44	go out to where the kind of the surf
21:46	line was and then just back up a little
21:48	bit and i would create a sand fortress
21:51	all right i’d dig a hole and i’d put up
21:53	the walls and i’d put these water
21:55	channels and and stuff like that and i
21:57	basically defy the surf to destroy my
22:01	sand fortress right
22:03	and you know it only takes a few hours
22:04	the low tide event eventually starts to
22:06	go the other way and high tide starts
22:08	coming in
22:09	you know what happened to every single
22:11	one of my my sand fortresses
22:14	decimated just
22:16	right
22:17	trying to save yourself by your good
22:19	works
22:21	is a lot like that
22:23	you might start off well have the best
22:25	intentions and the best strategy
22:27	but nothing’s going to hold the tide
22:29	back
22:30	nothing is going to keep that thing from
22:32	being decimated
22:34	and so we dare not try to establish
22:37	our righteousness by our good works
22:41	and unless your righteousness exceeds
22:43	that of the scribes and pharisees you’re
22:45	doomed and so you’ll know christ is our
22:48	righteousness paul himself speaks of
22:51	that very thing in philippians chapter
22:54	3. in philippians chapter 3 he makes it
22:57	so clear that he tried
23:01	as a jew to establish his righteousness
23:04	by being obedient to god’s law as a
23:07	hebrew as a pharisee a persecutor of the
23:10	church and he concludes that whatever
23:13	gain i had i count that as a loss for
23:15	the sake of christ indeed i count
23:17	everything as a loss because of the
23:19	surpassing worth of knowing christ jesus
23:21	my lord
23:22	and for his sake for jesus sake i’ve
23:25	suffered the loss of all things and i
23:27	count them all all of my good works all
23:29	of my attempts at establishing my
23:31	righteousness i count them as rubbish so
23:34	that i may gain christ and be found in
23:36	him and hear the important words
23:39	not
23:40	having a righteousness of my own that
23:43	comes from the law
23:46	but that which comes through faith in
23:49	christ
23:50	this is the righteousness
23:53	from god and it depends on faith and
23:57	that’s what christ is offering to all of
24:00	us a righteousness that exceeds that of
24:03	the scribes and the pharisees because it
24:05	is the very sinless righteousness of
24:07	jesus himself
24:09	that is imputed to you given to you as a
24:12	gift not by your works but by faith
24:16	trusting in the promises of god indeed
24:19	jeremiah’s prophecy has come true christ
24:22	is king of kings and lord of lords all
24:24	authority in heaven on earth has been
24:26	given to him and we dare not call him by
24:29	any other name than
24:31	he is our righteousness
24:34	and so good news brothers and sisters
24:37	although god’s law rightly is condemned
24:39	each and every one of us today and it
24:42	will condemn us tomorrow it will condemn
24:44	us next week and should the lord tarry
24:46	on into next year
24:48	this is it’s its job is to condemn and
24:51	show us our sin there is another word
24:53	from god and it is not the law of god it
24:55	is not the word spoken from sinai that
24:57	just terrorized the people of israel
25:00	when they were at mount sinai this is a
25:02	word of comfort
25:04	a word of peace a word of reconciliation
25:07	and it’s for you yes even you don’t
25:10	think that you’re beyond this grace and
25:12	mercy of god for christ has bled and
25:14	died for the sins of the whole world and
25:16	that includes you
25:18	so trust jesus trust this promises you
25:22	now having been baptized into his death
25:25	into his resurrection you are clothed in
25:27	the righteousness of christ take heart
25:30	your righteousness exceeds far exceeds
25:34	the righteousness of the scribes and
25:36	pharisees in fact the righteousness that
25:38	you possess by faith
25:40	is perfect
25:43	you are blessed you are forgiven you are
25:46	reconciled you are not among those who
25:49	will never see eternal life you are
25:51	those who have it guaranteed
25:54	by the one who conquered death himself
25:57	in the name of Jesus
25:58	amen

If you would like to support the teaching ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church, you can do so by sending a tax-free donation to: Kongsvinger Lutheran Church 15950 470th Ave NW, Oslo, MN 56744 We thank you for your support. All of our teaching messages may be freely distributed as long as you do not edit or change the content of the message, and, again, thank you for listening.