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66 lines
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## Context
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Lord's Supper
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Scripture Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-19
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Sermon Text: Luke 20:27-47
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## Prayer
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Our Father,
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We come to you as sinners, inheritors of futile ways.
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Following our first father according to the flesh, we turned from You and
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forgot You, cultivating inexcusable ignorance.
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We are heirs of a sinful nature, of defiled hearts given to corrupt desires.
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Both we and our forefathers have sinned.
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We insulted You by placing our trust in innumerable idols made of perishable things.
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The worshipful cravings of our hearts drifted to unworthy objects, rather than
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the one God that could satisfy.
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We have placed our hope for happiness in money and possessions and family and
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all manner of created things.
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We fixate on an age that is passing.
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Desiring the honor of man, we act boastfully and we devour one another, while
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forgetting our great hope for the honor that will come at the revelation of
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Your Son.
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We take little joy in the glories of the mysteries veiled in ages passed.
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We beneficiaries of the great wonder for which creation exists still seek after
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the cravings of the ignorance from which we are now free.
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We know by Your Word that we must be reminded not to indulge fleshly passions.
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We indulge the desires of the natural man, as we neglect the deeper longings
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that You have awakened within us.
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You have awakened us to tastes for Bread more delectable than creation could
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ever imagine, but we indulgent people insult You still.
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We do not glut on the all satisfying glories found in Your Word.
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We taste, but we do not devour.
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We do not drink deeply Your inexpressible joys.
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We settle for the common delights of a fallen creation that was always intended
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to be less than that which we are now called to.
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Sinful passions pervade our lives, but we come to You now in hope.
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By blood, we are sinners, but the blood of Your Son is righteous and is given
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as ransom for us.
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We confess now our sin and our hope in words, shortly we will confess again as
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we partake.
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Hear our plea, as we again appeal to You again for a good conscience.
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It was for us, for our sin, that the body and blood before us now was broken
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and shed.
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And in the presence of this blood, no accuser can stand, and so we come to You
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now.
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You, oh God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, be Father to us.
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Help us to turn from the inheritance of Adam, and to Your inheritance, that was
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secured for us by the precious blood of Your Son.
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It is in the name of Your righteous Son Christ Jesus that that we come to You.
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Amen.
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