Sunday Theme: Saints Triumphant
Prayer Before Worship – Lord , most of the time as I am battling sin, I don’t feel very much like a saint. Too often I don’t feel very triumphant either. Keep me focused on the time when I won’t have to be battling sin and when I will have triumphed over all my spiritual enemies. Thanks for making it possible.
Hymn 218
Morning Praise, front of hymnal, page 45
Old Testament Lesson - Daniel 12:1-3
God’s judgment will be a deliverance for us. We want to lead others to righteousness through Jesus so they won’t experience contempt.
“At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. 2 Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
Hymn 213:1-3
Epistle & Sermon Text: Jude 20-25
20 But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. 21 Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. 22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 snatch others from the fire and save them; to others show mercy, mixed with fear—hating even the clothing stained by corrupted flesh.24 To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy— 25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
Hymn 213:4-6
Gospel: John 5:25-29
Jesus our Savior is our Judge. That is comforting. He graciously looks on believers as people who have done good. That is comforting.
25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. 28 “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice 29 and come out—those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.
Hymn 394
Sermon Text: Jude 20-25
Theme: Saints are triumphant
1. When we are built up in faith and kept in God’s love
2. When we snatch others from the fire
3. Because of Jesus
Hymn 207
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Prayer: Almighty God & Savior,/ You have set the final day & hour/ when we shall be delivered from this world of sin & death. Keep us every watchful for the coming of Your Son/ that we may sit with Him & all Your holy ones/ at the marriage feast in heaven; through Your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,/ who lives & reigns with You & the Holy Spirit,/ one God, now & forever.
Special prayers
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Hymn 219
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