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## Context
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Scripture Reading: Hebrews 1:1-6
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Sermon Text: Colossians 1:15-23
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## Prayer
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Father,
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We come to you now to recognize that we have sinned against you.
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In accord with the nature of our birth, sin poured from hearts into our
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thoughts and actions.
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In turning from You, our Creator, we embraced a myriad of sins.
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In not trusting You, we blasphemed against Your goodness.
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We in turn have lied to cover and enable our sin.
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We regularly fail by neglecting our tasks, prioritizing frivolous achievements
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over the things that please You.
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We often regard Your Word with mere momentary interest, and we neglect bringing
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our troubles to You.
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We neglect our brothers, and do not pray for one another with diligence that we
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ought.
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We do not boast of our Lord as we should.
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We forget that You have given to the Church as her head, Him before whom even
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the angels bow down in worship.
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Our confidence in His power and glory and the supreme dignity of His name,
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our confidence in these things falls far short of what it should.
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We do not count it as our glory to be seen with Him, to be mocked with Him.
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We give ourselves to anger, which is the seed of murder.
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For our own unrighteous vindication, we relish our enmity with others.
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We try to take for ourselves and our own glory, the vengeance that rightly
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belongs to You and should vindicate You before any other.
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We have even set out to vindicate ourselves against Your Law.
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In Your love, You have sent many prophets to instruct us and warn us, but the
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heart of natural man would not receive it.
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Even when You sent us Your Son, the Adamic heart seethed at His witness against
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us, and we crucified the Lord of glory who forgives sins.
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Yet You did not count that act as unforgivable.
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You received the murder of Your Son as an atoning sacrifice to cover for the
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sins of all who would hail Him as King of kings.
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And so now, on this basis, we come to You seeking the reconciliation that is
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bought by His blood.
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We ask this in the most excellent name of Your Son, Our Lord, Christ Jesus.
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Amen.
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