January 7, 2007
SERMON TITLE:
“ God on Our Level”
Communion Sunday
Opening Prayer
O God, you have
set before us the great hope that your kingdom shall come, and have taught us to pray for
its coming. Make us ready for the signs of the kingdom’s dawning, and to pray and
work for that perfect day when your will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE:
Luke 3:7-22
He said therefore to the multitudes that
came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the
wrath to come? Bear fruits that befit repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves,
`We have Abraham as our father'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up
children to Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees; every tree
therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." And
the multitudes asked him, "What then shall we do?" And he answered them,
"He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let
him do likewise." Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and said to him,
"Teacher, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Collect no more than is
appointed you." Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he
said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with
your wages." As the people were in expectation, and all men questioned in their
hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he were the Christ, John answered them all,
"I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is coming, the thong of
whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with
fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor, and to gather the
wheat into his granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire." So, with
many other exhortations, he preached good news to the people. But Herod the tetrarch, who
had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things
that Herod had done, added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison. Now when all
the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the
heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a
voice came from heaven, "Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased."
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