Proper 27 - Year C

Jason Schafer

After Pentecost • Sermon • Submitted 3 months ago • Presented 3 months ago

Job 19:23–27

Psalm 98

Luke 20:27–38

2 Thessalonians 2:13–17

Psalm 145:1–5

2 Thessalonians 2:1–5

Haggai 1:15–2:9

Psalm 145:17–21

Psalm 17:1–9

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Welcome Statement

During the ordinary season, we witness what sometimes can feel like, lulls in our life, all of the things we set out to do, we begin to see deadlines coming up, we feel the slump even before the holidays begin. We may even be reflecting on our lives, how we have lived them, what we have gained, what we have lost. So many things we could ponder during the changing of Time and the changing of seasons.

In the old Testament, recall there are a series of minor prophet books that we’ve been reading through recently. Last week we listened to Joel’s cosmic call of repentance for where the people of Israel have fallen short, a sort of liturgy we could take to our own every day lives. This week the lectionary takes us to the time of Haggai, a Prophet during the rebuilding of Jerusalem, 70 some years after the fall of the Babylonian empire and the rise of the now ruling Persian Empire. Jerusalem had still been in ruins by this point. But the prophets during this time called the people to Hope, that a faithful remnant would return back to Jerusalem. At some point, the Persians allowed the Israelites to return, and those who decided to move back home.

Old Testament Reading - Haggai 2:1-9

Haggai 2:1–9 NRSV

in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai, saying: Speak now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, and say, Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Is it not in your sight as nothing? Yet now take courage, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; take courage, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of the land, says the Lord; work, for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts, according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit abides among you; do not fear. For thus says the Lord of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.

Dissappointment in Worldly Things

During the time of Haggai, The Israelites were extremely disappointed in the size of the second temple. Physically the old generations remembered of better times, of Solomon’s temple, while the younger generations cheered to see a semblance of hope, Those who remember how good times used to be, weeped, as they saw there was still a long road ahead for the nation of Israel. Haggai here is critiquing those who are so caught up in the physical, placing their trust in their own labor rather than God. He is saying the house shall be greater than the original

Promises of a Perfect Future

If you recall in the NT, Jesus talks about the resurrection of the temple

Old Testament Point #3

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New Testament Reading - Luke 20:27-38

Luke 20:27–38 NRSV

Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to him and asked him a question, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and raise up children for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had married her.” Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in marriage; but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. Indeed they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection. And the fact that the dead are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive.”