Sermon by Rev. Jake Zabel of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Dalby, Queensland, Australia on Hebrews 7:23-27

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Enslaved by sin, and bound in chains,

Beneath its dreadful tyrant sway,

And doomed to everlasting pains,

We wretched, guilty captives lay.

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Nor gold nor gems could buy our peace,

Nor could the world’s collected store

Suffice to purchase our release;

A thousand worlds were all too poor.

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Jesus, the Lord, the mighty God,

An all-sufficient ransom paid;

O matchless price! His precious blood

For vile, rebellious traitors shed.

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Jesus the sacrifice became

To rescue guilty souls from hell;

The spotless, bleeding, dying Lamb

Beneath avenging justice fell.

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Amazing goodness! Love divine!

O may our grateful hearts adore

The matchless grace; nor yield to sin,

Nor wear its cruel fetters more.

Lecture by Rev. Dr. John Kleinig on the Liturgy given at the Australian Lutheran College in 2009

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Lecture by Rev. Dr. John Kleinig on the Liturgy given at the Australian Lutheran College in 2009

For more content check out John's website:

www.johnkleinig.com

For our February 2020 Augsburg Panel we are joined by:

Rev. Bryan Wolfmueller, St. Paul's Lutheran Church and Jesus Deaf Church, Austin, Texas, USA (LCMS)

Rev. Joshua Sullivan, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Kerrville, Texas, USA (ELDoNA)

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Go to dark Gethsemane,

Ye that feel the tempter’s power;

Your Redeemer’s conflict see,

Watch with Him one bitter hour:

Turn not from His griefs away,

Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

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Follow to the judgement-hall,

View the Lord of life arraigned;

O the wormwood and the gall!

O the pangs His soul sustained!

Shun not suffering, shame, or loss;

Learn of Him to bear the cross.

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Calvary’s mournful mountain climb;

There, adoring at His feet,

Mark that miracle of time,

God’s own sacrifice complete:

“It is finished”, hear the cry;

Learn of Jesus Christ to die.

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Early hasten to the tomb

Where they laid His breathless clay;

All is solitude and gloom;

Who hath taken Him away?

Christ is risen! He meets our eyes;

Saviour, teach us so to rise.

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Saviour, when in dust to Thee

Low we bow the-adoring knee;

When, repentant, to the skies

Scarce we lift our weeping eyes:

O by all Thy pains and woe

Suffered once for man below,

Bending from Thy throne on high,

Hear our solemn litany.

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By Thy helpless infant years,

By Thy life of want and tears,

By Thy days of sore distress

In the savage wilderness,

By the dread mysterious hour

Of the-insulting tempter’s power:

Turn, O turn, a favouring eye,

Hear our solemn litany.

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By Thine hour of dire despair,

By Thine agony of prayer,

By the cross, the nail, the thorn,

Piercing spear, and torturing scorn;

By the gloom that veiled the skies

O’er the dreadful sacrifice:

Listen to our humble cry,

Hear our solemn litany.

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By Thy deep expiring groan,

By the sad sepulchral stone,

By the vault, whose dark abode

Held in vain the rising God:

O from earth to heaven restored,

Mighty, re-ascended Lord,

Listen, listen to the cry

Of our solemn litany.

Lecture by Rev. Dr. John Kleinig on the Liturgy given at the Australian Lutheran College in 2009

For more content check out John's website:

www.johnkleinig.com

For our January 2020 Augsburg Panel we are joined by:

Matthew Garnett from In Layman's Terms

Caleb Keith from The Thinking Fellows and 1517

In Layman's Terms:

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The Thinking Fellows:

https://www.1517.org/podcasts/thinkingfellows

1517:

https://www.1517.org/

Our January Book of the Month is "A Brief History of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Adelaide" by Valdis Andersons. Click here to purchase your own copy:

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Come to Calvary’s holy mountain,

Sinners, ruined by the fall;

Here a pure and healing fountain

Flows to you, to me, to all,

In a full perpetual tide,

Opened when our Saviour died.

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Come in poverty and meanness,

Come defiled, without, within;

From infection and uncleanness,

From the leprosy of sin,

Wash your robes and make them white;

Ye shall walk with God in light.

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Come in sorrow and contrition,

Wounded, impotent, and blind;

Here the guilty free remission,

Here the troubled peace may find:

Health this fountain will restore;

He that drinks shall thirst no more.

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He that drinks shall live for ever;

’Tis a soul-renewing flood:

God is faithful; God will never

Break His covenant of blood,

Signed when our Redeemer died,

Sealed when He was glorified.