2021-12-26 — Christmas! God’s Sign Fulfilled!
1st Sunday after Christmas: Date: December 26, 2021
– THE SERMON: Isaiah 7:10-14.
Theme: Christmas! God’s Sign Fulfilled!
I. The Lord Gives an Authenticating Sign
II. A Virgin Gives Birth to a Son!
SERMON TEXT: Isaiah 7:10-14
10 Moreover the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.”
12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!”
13 Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. (NKJV)
PRAYER; THE LORD’S PRAYER
HYMN 105: Praise God the Lord, Ye sons of Men
1 Praise God the Lord, ye sons of men,
Before His highest throne; Today He opens heav’n again
And gives us His own Son, And gives us His own Son.
2 He leaves His heav’nly Father’s throne,
Is born an Infant small, And in a manger, poor and lone,
Lies in a humble stall, Lies in a humble stall.
3 He veils in flesh His pow’r divine
A servant’s form to take; In want and lowliness must pine
Who heav’n and earth did make, Who heav’n and earth did make.
7 He serves that I a lord may be;
A great exchange indeed! Could Jesus’ love do more for me
To help me in my need, To help me in my need?
8 He opens us again the door
Of Paradise today; The angel guards the gate no more,
To God our thanks we pay, To God our thanks we pay.
BENEDICTION
C: Amen.
HYMN 97: Let Us All with Gladsome Voice
1 Let us all with gladsome voice Praise the God of heaven,
Who, to bid our hearts rejoice, His own Son hath given.
2 To this vale of tears He comes, Here to serve in sadness,
That with Him in heav’n’s fair homes We may reign in gladness.
3 We are rich, for He was poor; Is not this a wonder?
Therefore praise God evermore Here on earth and yonder.
4 O Lord Christ, our Savior dear, Be Thou ever near us.
Grant us now a glad new year. Amen, Jesus, hear us!
( Pastor Theodore Barthels )
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THE ORDER OF SERVICE: (p. 22 Worship Supplement 2000)
THE EPISTLE LESSON: Hebrews 2:10-18
10 For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying:
THE GOSPEL LESSON: Luke 2:22-38
Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord 23 (as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every male who opens the womb shall be called holy to the Lord”), 24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of the Lord, “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”