December 21, 2022
This Sunday, December 25, is Christmas Day.
Verse of the Season/Month: Isaiah 11:1-2
This week’s sermon is: Spoken by His Son
This week’s readings are:
Message: Comfort, Comfort Ye My People
One More Advent Hymn
- Comfort, Comfort Ye My People
Isaiah 40
“Comfort, comfort my people,”
says your God.
“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and announce to her
that her time of hard service is over,
her iniquity has been pardoned,
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”
Versification of Scripture
- Proclamation
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Isaiah 40:6 – “Cry out!”
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The people are grass.
o
The word of our God remains forever.
- Memorization
Comfort!
Verse 3 – of the hymn and Isaiah 40
A voice of one crying out:
Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Fulfilled by John the Baptist
Advent – Waiting for God to Keep His Promises
- Believers waiting for Christ
o
Christmas
o
Second Coming
- Directs our attention away from everyday to the eternal.
Listen to the Hymn
Read the Lyrics
LSB 347
1 "Comfort, comfort ye My people,
Speak ye peace," thus saith our God;
"Comfort those who sit in darkness,
Mourning 'neath their sorrows' load.
Speak ye to Jerusalem
Of the peace that waits for them;
Tell her that her sins I cover
And her warfare now is over."
2 Yea, her sins our God will pardon,
Blotting out each dark misdeed;
All that well deserved His anger
He no more will see or heed.
She hath suffered many a day,
Now her griefs have passed away;
God will change her pining sadness
Into ever-springing gladness.
3 Hark, the herald's voice is crying
In the desert far and near,
Calling sinners to repentance,
Since the Kingdom now is here.
O that warning cry obey!
Now prepare for God a way;
Let the valleys rise to meet Him
And the hills bow down to greet Him.
4 Make ye straight what long was crooked;
Make the rougher places plain.
Let your hearts be true and humble,
As befits His holy reign.
For the glory of the Lord
Now o'er earth is shed abroad,
And all flesh shall see the token
That His Word is never broken.
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