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+## Context
+
+Scripture Reading: Exodus 19:1-9a
+
+Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:1-10
+
+Song: How Sweet and Aweful Is The Place
+
+## Prayer
+
+Our Father,
+
+We come to You as sinners, as trespassers, as lawbreakers.
+Once we all were of a people utterly alien to righteousness and utterly
+incapable of attaining to it, and we offered nothing to merit the
+deliverance You have wrought for us through Your Son.
+You regard us, who You have called, as a treasured possession among the
+peoples, yet in ourselves, we were of one nature the countless who make the
+wretched choice.
+Indeed, "Why [were *we*] made to hear Thy voice?"
+Those deaf to Your voice do not provide us a favorable contrast, as there we
+see the same unbelief and hostility toward You that we would still hold, but
+for Your mercy on us.
+
+You set us apart as a distinct people, but we, in our flesh, so easily lapse
+into identifying with different tribes.
+We often set our first identity not with Your people, but with those who vote
+as we vote, or who work on what we work on.
+We may know in our heads that our identity should orbit around Christ, and we
+will say as much, but we at times see our brothers as enemies and those who
+hate You as allies.
+
+You have given us the riches of Your Word, but as a people, we long for a king
+like those of other peoples.
+We want to worship as they worship.
+We simply do not fathom the impassable chasm between the holiness that You call
+us to, and futility of the world You are delivering us from.
+Though we saw what You did to Egypt, we aspire to be like Egypt.
+
+You have provided everyone of us here with reason to trust You, but we are
+quick to fall into unbelief.
+We are quick to cast our trust on the power of the flesh.
+We trust You when You act, but we do not trust You in the waiting.
+
+We read the actions of others with malice, and we think it nothing to slander
+them in our hearts.
+We play the part of the accuser, and we dredge up and inflate the sins of those
+who wrong us.
+
+We hold envy in our hearts and indict You as unjust in Your allotment of gifts.
+
+Father, we ask that You would continue to draw from Your vast well of patience.
+Bring us safely home, to the rest of Your promised kingdom.
+For the sake of Him who did keep Your covenant on our behalf, make us a
+treasured people for Your own possession.
+
+It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray.
+Amen.

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+## Context
+
+Scripture Reading: Exodus 19:1-9a
+
+Sermon Text: 1 Peter 2:1-10
+
+Song: How Sweet and Aweful Is The Place
+
+## Prayer
+
+Our Father,
+
+We come to You as sinners, as trespassers, as lawbreakers.
+Once we all were of peoples utterly alien to righteousness and utterly
+incapable of attaining to it, and we offered nothing to merit the
+deliverance You have wrought for us through Your Son.
+You regard us, who You have called, as a treasured possession among the
+peoples, yet in ourselves, we were of one nature the countless who make the
+wretched choice.
+Indeed, "Why [were *we*] made to hear Thy voice?"
+Those deaf to Your voice do not provide us a favorable contrast, as there we
+see the same unbelief and hostility toward You that we would still hold, but
+for Your mercy on us.
+
+You set us apart as a distinct people, but we, in our flesh, so easily lapse
+into identifying with other tribes.
+We often set our first identity not with Your people, but with those who vote
+as we vote, or who work on what we work on.
+We may know in our heads that our identity should orbit around Christ, and we
+will say as much, but we at times see our brothers as enemies and those who
+hate You as allies.
+
+You have given us the riches of Your Word, but as a people, we long for a king
+like those of other peoples.
+We want to worship as they worship.
+We simply do not fathom the impassable chasm between the holiness that You call
+us to, and futility of the world You are delivering us from.
+Though we saw what You did to Egypt, we aspire to be like Egypt.
+
+You have provided everyone of us here with reason to trust You, but we are
+quick to fall into unbelief.
+We are quick to cast our trust on the power of the flesh.
+We trust You when You act, but we do not trust You in the waiting.
+
+We read the actions of others with malice, and we think it nothing to slander
+them in our hearts.
+We play the part of the accuser, and we dredge up and inflate the sins of those
+who wrong us.
+
+We hold envy in our hearts and indict You as unjust in Your allotment of gifts.
+
+Father, we ask that You would continue to draw from Your vast well of patience.
+Bring us safely home, to the rest of Your promised kingdom.
+For the sake of Him who did keep Your covenant on our behalf, make us a
+treasured people for Your own possession.
+
+It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray.
+Amen.