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2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days.
3 Therefore he shall give them up until the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then the rest of his brothers shall return
to the people of Israel.
4 And he shall stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of the LORD,
in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.
And they shall dwell secure, for now he shall be great
to the ends of the earth.
5 And he shall be their peace.
God’s Word is so filled with meaning that you really can spend a lifetime exploring all of it.
There are so many ways that it tries to communicate God’s grace to you.
Tonight we’re going to spend a couple of minutes just introducing you to one aspect that we don’t often focus on.
And it will only be an introduction, we won’t come close to covering it fully.
Hopefully it will encourage you to go deeper, or at least begin to notice it as you read and study God’s Word.
This The places preach to us.
What I want to highlight tonight is the fact that the places in scripture preach to us.
The towns, the nations, the kingdoms, they preach to us, as well.
Our theme for these Wednesday night services is “People of the Word.”
And we are “People of the Word” when it comes to the places, too.
Let’s take a recent example.
A couple of weeks ago one of the hymns that we sang was “Glorious things of you are spoken, Zion, city of our God....”
You may or may not know what ‘Zion’ actually is, what it refers to, but ‘Zion’ actually preaches to us quit powerfully about what God has done and is doing.
In fact, let’s take a second to look through the words of that hymn.
(It’s #648 in our Lutheran Service Book.) Look at the first stanza:
Place is very significant.
“Let us go up to the house of the Lord....”
Zion
History
Prayers were offered toward Jerusalem
Application
That was the location of God.
Zion
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Let’s take a recent example.
A couple of weeks ago one of the hymns that we sang was “Glorious things of you are spoken, Zion, city of our God....”
You may or may not know what ‘Zion’ actually is, what it refers to, but ‘Zion’ actually preaches to us quit powerfully about what God has done and is doing.
In fact, let’s take a second to look through the words of that hymn.
(It’s #648 in our Lutheran Service Book.) Look at the first stanza:
1 Glorious things of you are spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
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