Sermon Tone Analysis

Theme: “The Last Days”

Dan 12.1-3

notes: Resurrection of the dead, some to everlasting life, some to everlasting disgrace.

Collect: (not right given this is the last week before the final week, Christ the King Sunday, and the end of this Church Year)

A: (not sure source) O Lord, by Your bountiful goodness release us from the bonds of our sins, which by reason of our weakness we have brought upon ourselves, that we may stand firm until the day of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

B: (Catholic, US): Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God / the constant gladness of being devoted to you / for it is full and lasting happiness / to serve with constancy / the author of all that is good / Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son / who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit / God, for ever and ever.

Psa 16

notes: Navarre says that Psa 15 is about love of neighbor, how we need to express our faith.

To fail to do this is to lose the closeness of the and with the Lord.

This psalm is about total dedication to the Lord, so we have the horizontal (15) and vertical dimensions (16) shown in successive psalms.

Heb 10.11-14, 19-25

notes: (LCMS reads straight through, ie including, non-optional, 15-18) I think it is legitimate, but this is a good example of why in the lectionary we cut out to just what we need, not to prove a theological point, but to keep the focus on a) sacrifice once for all, b) we can boldly enter God’s Most Holy Place, since we have been cleaned.

Mar 13.1-8

notes: (LCMS through v 13) In this case it is good to read through 13.

A couple of groupings, subsections, a) Jerusalem would be destroyed (happened in AD 70), b) seems like the false Messiahs of 3-6 are happening then too, c) wars and earthquakes.

Then 9ff d) you’ll be arrested, sometimes turned in by family members, you might even be put to death, but use these opportunities when you stand trial to testify of me.