Pentecost (64)
  1. Lamentations bids us to keep this in mind, that we always have hope when we hope in the Lord.
  2. Job is given something so much more comforting than an explanation: He is assured of God’s nearer presence.
  3. Ultimately, God’s plan is not just for nations and politics. His plan is one of salvation, seen ultimately fulfilled in Christ.
  4. In order to find hope, you would have to run a marathon through your Bible to find where God reverses the curse on another tree!
  5. Through His Word, Jesus is fashioning and forming us to be His disciples who follow Him. It is important on this first Sunday after Pentecost that we remember to put worship (sabbath) first.
  6. “Can these bones live?” God asks Ezekiel, challenging the prophet and all who have ever looked into the face of death, and calling for a response.
  7. A good shepherd takes the little lamb from the flock and holds it in their arms.
  8. The Day of the Lord will be the “day of the Lord’s sacrifice.” That is how He will handle wrath and sin, by bloodshed and sacrifice.
  9. The surprising thing about our text is just how devoid it really is of gospel. Amos makes it quite clear that the “Day of the Lord” is a day of darkness and NO LIGHT!
  10. The best way to get at preaching the Gospel in our text is to compare the prophets and rulers Micah holds before us to Christ, who is not only a better prophet but the prophet’s hope and the prophet “par excellence.”
  11. We need the Son of God, Jesus, to set us free. Not by the Law, not by a social gospel, but by the blood-mark of the Lamb and a sacred eating and passing through the sea of baptismal regeneration.
  12. God is delivering His people by means of a King who will break down the bars that hold us in. It was strange but it was a real deliverance.
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