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## Context
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Scripture Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21
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Sermon Text: Luke 5:12-28
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## Prayer
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Father,
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We, mankind, have sinned against You.
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Through our sin, we have brought sickness, suffering, and death into the world.
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Not trusting You, we brought the misery of failing bodies and fading lives.
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In accord with our sinful nature, our bodies and desires would continually
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degrade without Your intervention.
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We have failed in seeking closeness with You.
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We neglect Your Word and we do not seek You in prayer as we should.
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We do not seek our rest in You.
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We often see pursuing closeness with You as a chore, as work rather than rest.
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We instead seek rest in our many hobbies and interest, in things good and in
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bad, we rest in Your good gifts and also in fruits You have not given us to eat
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of.
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We can even regard work as more restful than You, who should be our rest.
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We at times only seek You when we have problems.
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Even when we do have problems, we still often do not look to You to be our
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help.
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We come to You only as a last resort, or at other times we seek You only so we
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can cover over our laziness.
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We have not regarded with honor, the calling that You give to every Christian
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to steward the message of reconciliation.
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We regularly fail in joining You in carrying into the world the reconciliation
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that You brought forth Christ.
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If the first disciples who's ministry of reconciliation we are to continue had
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our zeal, we might never have heard of Christ.
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We live for ourselves, rather than Your Son.
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Now on the grounds that Christ became sin for us, that He died for us that we
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might live for Him, we come to You seeking that reconciliation.
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Please, receive us back, and help us to truly live Him who died for us.
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It is in His name that we ask this.
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Amen.
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