These are the lessons you will hear this coming Sunday:
Isaiah 40:21-31
Psalm 147:1-11
1 Corinthians 9:16-27
Mark 1:29-39
The Son of God, Christ Jesus, Makes Us a New Creation
The Lord alone “is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth” (Is. 40:28). He “sits above the circle of the earth” and “stretches out the heavens like a curtain” (Is. 40:22). Yet, His almighty power is demonstrated chiefly by His mercy and compassion. “He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might He increases strength” (Is. 40:29). The only-begotten Son of the Father, the very Word by whom all things were made, becomes flesh and takes all the poverty and weakness of our sin and death upon Himself, bearing it in His Body to the Cross. As He dies for us there, He also raises us up, a new creation, in His Resurrection from the dead. Thus, by the preaching of this Word, He heals “many who were sick with various diseases,” and He casts out “many demons” (Mark 1:34, 39). And His preaching continues through those whom He has sent, who are “entrusted with a stewardship” to “preach the Gospel” (1 Cor. 9:16–17). Thus we are set free by the Word of Christ, and we exercise our freedom in loving service to others.
These are the hymns we will sing:
Awake, My Soul, and with the Sun (LSB 868)
Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness (LSB 849)
O Holy Spirit, Grant Us Grace (LSB 693)
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (LSB 790)
