Sunday, September 23, 2012
Podcast Sermon for September 23, 2012: A Word About Jesus
A sermon preached by Seminarian Lewis Polzin on September 23, 2012 at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in O'Fallon, MO, on Jeremiah 11:18-20. The text of this sermon may be found at the following web address: http://apastoralapproach.blogspot.com/2012/09/sermon-for-september-23-2012-word-about.html. The sermon recording may also be accessed by clicking the title of this blog post and playing it in your browser.
Sermon for September 23, 2012: A Word About Jesus
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
The text for today’s message comes to us from the prophet Jeremiah, the 11th chapter:
Dear friends in Christ,
These words from our reading today of Jeremiah are AWESOME!!!! Did you read them? Did you pay attention? At our first glance, our FIRST glance, it’s SO easy to see Christ here. I love it! I was a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. They devised evil schemes. Let’s destroy His life, kill him, crucify Him, that no one will remember Him. But God will have His vengeance on them, He will judge them righteously.
I love when the Old Testament is so clear, so easy, so prophetic. You gotta remember: the God who wrote the Old Testament knew everything that was going to happen to Himself. The God who met face to face with Moses, the God who preserved Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, the God who promised a child to Abraham and Sarah, the God who walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, that very God is the God who died for us on the cross of Calvary. It’s easy for Him to prophesy through His prophets what will happen to Jesus. It’s His plan; it’s His will, His desire.
So, for us to look at the Old Testament and see these words that so clearly predict even the very words that the Pharisees and Sadducees will whisper to themselves in the secret, dark time of the night, it’s AWESOME!! God is so cool, isn’t He? I love seeing God, I love seeing Jesus in the Old Testament. It’s like God knew what He was doing when He wrote the Old Testament… oh wait… He did.
The text for today’s message comes to us from the prophet Jeremiah, the 11th chapter:
The Lord made it known to me and I knew; then you showed me their deeds. But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. I did not know it was against me they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more.” But, O Lord of hosts, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.Thus far the text.
Dear friends in Christ,
These words from our reading today of Jeremiah are AWESOME!!!! Did you read them? Did you pay attention? At our first glance, our FIRST glance, it’s SO easy to see Christ here. I love it! I was a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. They devised evil schemes. Let’s destroy His life, kill him, crucify Him, that no one will remember Him. But God will have His vengeance on them, He will judge them righteously.
I love when the Old Testament is so clear, so easy, so prophetic. You gotta remember: the God who wrote the Old Testament knew everything that was going to happen to Himself. The God who met face to face with Moses, the God who preserved Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, the God who promised a child to Abraham and Sarah, the God who walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, that very God is the God who died for us on the cross of Calvary. It’s easy for Him to prophesy through His prophets what will happen to Jesus. It’s His plan; it’s His will, His desire.
So, for us to look at the Old Testament and see these words that so clearly predict even the very words that the Pharisees and Sadducees will whisper to themselves in the secret, dark time of the night, it’s AWESOME!! God is so cool, isn’t He? I love seeing God, I love seeing Jesus in the Old Testament. It’s like God knew what He was doing when He wrote the Old Testament… oh wait… He did.
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