Sunday Sermon

If Satan is a liar, he seeks to transmit that nature to his children. And it is very easy for a believer to be infected with that as well. Whenever you tell a lie, you are offering yourself to Satan to father one more child.

People today tend to only believe in a distant God. One who is remote from them and not involved in their lives at all. But Luke shows God has come close to humanity. God stands among them directly involved.

The only two things Jesus ever told us to learn from Him were humility and gentleness. Why? Because as the children of Adam, we are all proud and hard. If you want to demonstrate a heavenly life on earth, it is not going to be demonstrated first by evangelism, preaching, catechizing, or social work. It is going to be demonstrated by an attitude of humility and gentleness first of all.

Paul writes to the Ephesians from prison. He writes to them about boldness and courage and confidence and glory. And as he writes about all these things, he wants them to see his hardships in a whole new light. What he writes will help us to do the same: to lift our eyes, and to see our own circumstances in the light of the gospel of Christ.

Do we only go to God when we need Him and then go our merry way when we get what we want? Do we thank Him?

Today I want to consider a woman we meet in our Gospel readings for today. She doesn’t have a name but we know she was a widow from Nain (A village located 14 kilometers south of Nazareth) whose only son had died. Death had taken away her only source of hope, strength as well as protection. There was nothing she could do about it but weep bitterly. But then something unexpected happened. A stranger she met, told her not to weep. The rest is history.

“And who is my neighbour? (St. Luke 10:29). Our Blessed Lord tells the Parable of the Good Samaritan”

If you have turned away from sin and are following Jesus as Lord in complete obedience, his will for you is that you not be anxious about anything, but that you enjoy deep serenity and peace and security. Jesus spoke these words in Matthew 6:24–34 precisely for you — to help you overcome whatever is making you anxious.

Our Epistle readings today deal with the question of the place of the Law of Moses in our spiritual walk as Christians.

The Christian is justified in the words, "By the grace of God I am what I am." From first to last it is throughout the work of Gods grace that makes you what you are. See that you "receive not the grace of God in vain."