Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Dear saints, we pick up today where we left off last week. Jesus was in the synagogue in Capernaum. He had cast out the unclean spirit from the man and delivered him and finished his sermon, his preaching there, made sure that the demon didn’t preach in church. And then they leave the synagogue and they go down the…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints, our Lord Jesus Christ and his Sermon on the Mount is refuting Phariseeism, the doctrine that we can be righteous according to our own works and please God by our own efforts.…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. I loved fishing. My brother Andrew and I had a pretty good business of it. So did my friends, James and John. My name’s Peter. And the Sea of Galilee, or the Lake of Gennesaret, another name for it, that was a great place for us to fish. fish.…
Sermon for Fifth Sunday after Epiphany
[Machine transcription] In the name of Jesus, amen. Your saints today will meditate on the mystery of Jesus’ prayer. On the way there, I want to pick up the last couple of verses of Isaiah. Isaiah 40 is an amazing chapter, and at the end of that chapter, he gives this promise. He says, Even youths shall faint and be weary, young men will fall exhausted. it, but they…
Exceeding Righteousness
[Machine transcription] Jesus says, For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. You may be seated. In the name of Jesus, Amen. Dear Saints of God, Christianity is both an attack on what is worst in humanity and the What is best in humanity? Now this is a foundational truth that is going…