2022-01-16 — Setting the Record Straight Concerning Christ
2nd Sunday after Epiphany: Date: January 16, 2022
– THE SERMON: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
Theme: Setting the Record Straight Concerning Christ
I. People Living in Expectation
II. John Tells the Straight Truth about Christ
III. God Presents Jesus as the Christ with Jesus’ Baptism
SERMON TEXT: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
15 Now as the people were in expectation, and all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether he was the Christ or not, 16 John answered, saying to all, “I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”
21 When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened. 22 And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven which said, “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.” (NKJV)
PRAYER; THE LORD’S PRAYER
HYMN 315:1-2,4-5: I come, O Savior, to Thy Table
1. I come, O Savior, to Thy Table
For weak and weary is my soul;
Thou, Bread of Life, alone art able
To satisfy and make me whole:
Lord, may Thy body and Thy blood
Be for my soul the highest good!
2. Oh, grant that I in manner worthy
May now approach Thy heav’nly Board
And, as I lowly bow before Thee,
Look only unto Thee, O Lord!
Lord, may Thy body and Thy blood
Be for my soul the highest good!
4. Oh, let me loathe all sin forever
As death and poison to my soul
That I through willful sinning never
May see thy judgment take its toll!
Lord, may Thy body and Thy blood
Be for my soul the highest good!
5. Thy heart is filled with fervent yearning
That sinners may salvation see
Who, Lord, to Thee in faith are turning;
So I, a sinner, come to Thee.
Lord, may Thy body and Thy blood
Be for my soul the highest good!
THE WORDS OF INSTITUTION
( Pastor Theodore Barthels )
Bulletin: Read Bulletin
Sermon: Read Sermon
THE ORDER OF SERVICE: (p. 22 Worship Supplement 2000)
THE EPISTLE LESSON: Titus 3:4-7
But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. (NKJV)