Daily
Lectionary
May 27 Numbers 21:10-35; Luke 21:20-38
May 28 Numbers
22:1-20; Luke 22:1-23
May 29 Numbers 22:21-23:3; Luke 22:24-46
May 30 Numbers 23:4-28; Luke 22:47-71
May 31 Numbers 24:1-25; Luke 23:1-25
June 1 Numbers 27:12-23; Luke 23:26-56
June 2 Looking
Ahead to Trinity Sunday
Isaiah 6:1–7; Romans 11:33–36;
John 3:1–15 (16–17)
Next Weeks
Lessons: THE
FEAST OF the holy trinity
When Isaiah
beheld the glory of the Lord, he cried out “Woe is me!” For the sinner cannot
stand in the presence of a holy God and live (Isaiah 6:1–7). But God the Father
lifted up His Son Jesus for us on the cross, that whoever believes in Him
should not perish but have eternal life (John 3:1–15). This eternal life of
Christ is given us according to the Holy Spirit’s good pleasure in Baptism.
“Unless one is born (again) of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the
kingdom of God.” To sinners in fear of death, the messengers of God place on
our lips the living body and blood of Christ and speak His words of absolution,
“Your iniquity is taken away, and your sin purged.” Having received forgiveness
and life from the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit, we join with the
angels in praising the blessed Trinity, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of
hosts!” “For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory
forever. Amen” (Romans 11:33–36).
Collect: Almighty and
everlasting God, who has given to us, Your servants, grace, by the confession
of a truth faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity and in the
power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity, we implore You that You would
keep us steadfast in this faith and evermore defend us from all adversities;
who lives and reigns, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Old
Testament: Isaiah
6:1–7
Epistle: Romans 11:33–36
Holy
Gospel: John
3:1–15 (16–17)
Happy
Birthday This Week: Dorothy Schroll, Kirk Howarth
Happy
Anniversary: None
TODAY’S THEME:
JESUS GIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT
Jesus words in today’s Gospel
come at the conclusion of “the Feast of Tabernacles” or “the feast of Booths”
which commemorated the long period of time in which the children of Israel
lived in tents in their wilderness wandering. This feast came at the end of the
harvest and celebrated the ingathering of grain and the fellowship they shared
together in the faith. During their wilderness wandering the Lord gave them to
drink from the Rock that followed them. St. Paul says, “that Rock was Christ”
(1 Corinthians 10:4). At the conclusion of this great feast, Jesus declares,
“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the
Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” John
tells us that when Jesus spoke these words, He was speaking about the gift of
the Holy Spirit who would be poured out on the day of Pentecost and in the age
to follow wherever His Gospel was preached. “To come to Jesus” involves chiefly
the hearing of His Word through which the Spirit is given and by which we are
restored from the ravages of sin and made alive.
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