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Prayer
Almighty God, you are the morning star.
Arise and shine upon us.
In this night where all around so often seems dark, give us hope.
That sorrow may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
You are our joy.
You are our light.
You are our hope.
We wait for you as the night watchman waits for morning.
Blessed be your name forever and ever.
Fill us with light, Father.
Pour out your spirit upon us so that we might never be led astray.
Guard our hearts so that we might stay close to you.
Let us never be overcome by the darkness of pride, or disdain, or hatred – but cause us to love you and lean upon you, and leave our dark places with you – the light of the world.
Morning star, Sun of righteousness, give us a lamp to our steps.
Open our eyes to see Jesus in every page of scripture, so that we might not lose heart as we make our way through this valley that you have placed before us.
You are our good shepherd.
Your goodness shines in all that we see.
You have led us; protected us; and even when the way is dark and the valley is threatening, we know that you walk with us.
We thank you for your goodness.
Thank you for the bread on the table, for the tongues that taste it.
Thank you for love and friendship.
For the taste of wine and for the oil of gladness.
Lift our eyes above the curse so that we might discern your beauty and goodness.
And Father, for those who are suffering, we pray for endurance and healing.
You are the good physician.
You do not take pleasure in pain and suffering, so we pray for those who are hurting.
Bless Hugo and his procedures.
Continue to give strength to Bud.
Thank you for sparing Carmon and Gary this past week and for you care and love for each one of us.
Deliver us from wildfires and the relentless heat.
We pray that you would be merciful and provide rain in due season.
This morning, Eternal Father, we gather around the world to meet with you.
We are your people and you are our shepherd, our God, our king.
Speak to us through the preaching of the gospel.
Guide the tongues of your servants and pour out the spirit of illumination.
The world is full of hatred and fear, guilt and shame, ugliness, war, destruction, famine, cruelty – shine the light in the dark places through your gospel.
Cause men to cast down their weapons, turn their swords into plowshares, and bow themselves before the Name which is above every Name, as you have promised.
Reconcile the world to yourself.
We pray that you would be merciful to our community.
Cast out wickedness in high places and bless the proclamation of your word this morning.
Increase this congregation, provide for us, forgive us.
Father, we thank you for law enforcement.
We thank you for those who make the hard decisions.
We thank you for judges and attorneys and lawmakers, and pray that you would give wisdom, and insight and understanding – for it only comes from you.
You send your rain on the just and the unjust, and we pray that justice and righteousness would rain down from our Lord Jesus Christ, the prince of peace, and that you would give to us peace.
We pray also that you would bring justice for the oppressed and the afflicted.
That you would comfort and give relief to the poor and those who are in distress.
Give vindication for those falsely accused.
Give justice for those who have been crushed by evil.
And give patience to all – that even though we continue to live in a cursed world, we are not yet home.
We have not yet seen the fullness of your kingdom come.
And yet we see Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.
There is much that is ugly in this world and there is much evil.
But our Lord rose from the dead, conquering sin and death and misery and is even now reigning over all things.
Cause us to rest in his beauty and goodness, and thank you that death does not have the last word.
Bless the reading and preaching of your word today.
Guide my lips and give us ears to hear.
And let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
So come quickly, Lord Jesus.
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To follow Jesus is to forsake all.
One cannot do that unless one is convinced that
In the context, the invitation to the feast is sent out.
The call is free and to everyone, and it is exactly what it says - come, without money.
Without price.
You will find in the house of your God everything that your soul desires.
You will not be cast away.
You will be provided cleansing waters, and you will be washed, perfumed, anointed with oil.
The garment will be provided.
And you will be adopted as a child of the Most High God.
A partaker of divine nature.
If this is what you seek and what you long for, come.
It is free.
Your sins are washed away and you don’t need to add anything to that.
Come, for the feast is spread, offered to all.
And last week, we saw the objections - why the leaders of the Jews didn’t come.
I just bought some land… I just bought some oxen…I just got married....
And so they missed it.
And now, Luke switches the occasion, but keeps the flow of the narrative.
Remember that Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem.
He has left Galilee back in Chapter 9 and is heading to Jerusalem for the last time.
He knows what awaits him there, and he is going there willingly and deliberately.
His goal is to make it for Passover, for he is the lamb of God, prepared before the foundation of the world.
But the timing - at passover, huge crowds of people are also heading towards Jerusalem for the feast.
They did it every year.
But this year there is a buzz of excitement in the air.
They see Jesus going to Jerusalem and the remember the prophecies - the kingdom will be restored to Israel!
Enemies will be conquered!
Jesus is going, so something spectacular is going to happen!
And so they gather around him and travel with him.
They don’t want to miss out.
The men at the feast said, “Blessed is the one who eats bread in the kingdom of God!”
And that is where these multitudes thought that they were going.
At the dinner, Jesus warns the Jews of all the excuses that get in the way.
What are you seeking?
And now he continues the same theme.
Things were going to get very ugly very fast.
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