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"Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" | Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
ZACHARY'S NOTES:
Stanza 1 // When God’s people are gathered for worship, we sing as His “thankful people” - this hymn gives us two reasons. God provides all we need in this life - the third phrase makes this clear. Even more, the song we sing is one of “harvest home.” Christ says the harvest is the “end of the age” - and so we raise our voices in thanks that God also provides a home where we know the our end as God’s people!
Stanza 2 // Like the parable, the second stanza helps us begin to make sense of this weekend’s parable: “All the world of God’s own field.” Because this world belongs to God, He uses those in the world to produce fruit - praise to God for his work in Christ. This does not remove us from the work of the devil - “wheat and tares” are sown together! Because the seed has nothing to say about the matter, we pray: “Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be.”
Stanza 3 // The “song of harvest home” about which we sing in the first stanza is given further specificity in the opening words of stanza three. The Lord will take his harvest home - those who know the gracious work of God in Christ. When Jesus appears, all offenses - both those of wheat and weed - will be taken away.
Stanza 4 // The final stanza is a prayer, beginning with words from the book of Revelation. “E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come!” Where it is easy to hear the end of this parable and hymn as a text of judgement with “weeping and gnashing of teeth” we pray for Christ’s return because of what our Lord has promised: “[freedom] from sorrow, [freedom] from sin!” In contrast to the parable, where the angels are sent to “collect all causes of sin and evildoers” the hymn tells us we join with the angels in the song of heaven.
SUGGESTIONS:
- ELW 693 - Come, Ye Thankful People, Come - ꜱᴛ. ɢᴇᴏʀɢᴇ’ꜱ, ᴡɪɴᴅꜱᴏʀ
- ELW 679 - For the Fruit of All Creation - ᴀʀ ʜʏᴅ ʏ ɴᴏꜱ
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ZACHARY'S NOTES:
Stanza 1 // When God’s people are gathered for worship, we sing as His “thankful people” - this hymn gives us two reasons. God provides all we need in this life - the third phrase makes this clear. Even more, the song we sing is one of “harvest home.” Christ says the harvest is the “end of the age” - and so we raise our voices in thanks that God also provides a home where we know the our end as God’s people!
Stanza 2 // Like the parable, the second stanza helps us begin to make sense of this weekend’s parable: “All the world of God’s own field.” Because this world belongs to God, He uses those in the world to produce fruit - praise to God for his work in Christ. This does not remove us from the work of the devil - “wheat and tares” are sown together! Because the seed has nothing to say about the matter, we pray: “Lord of harvest, grant that we wholesome grain and pure may be.”
Stanza 3 // The “song of harvest home” about which we sing in the first stanza is given further specificity in the opening words of stanza three. The Lord will take his harvest home - those who know the gracious work of God in Christ. When Jesus appears, all offenses - both those of wheat and weed - will be taken away.
Stanza 4 // The final stanza is a prayer, beginning with words from the book of Revelation. “E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come!” Where it is easy to hear the end of this parable and hymn as a text of judgement with “weeping and gnashing of teeth” we pray for Christ’s return because of what our Lord has promised: “[freedom] from sorrow, [freedom] from sin!” In contrast to the parable, where the angels are sent to “collect all causes of sin and evildoers” the hymn tells us we join with the angels in the song of heaven.
SUGGESTIONS:
- ELW 693 - Come, Ye Thankful People, Come - ꜱᴛ. ɢᴇᴏʀɢᴇ’ꜱ, ᴡɪɴᴅꜱᴏʀ
- ELW 679 - For the Fruit of All Creation - ᴀʀ ʜʏᴅ ʏ ɴᴏꜱ