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54 lines
2.2 KiB
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## Context
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Scripture Reading: Genesis 19:12-26
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Sermon Text: Luke 17:20-37
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## Prayer
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Father,
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We come to You now to recognize that we are people of a fallen world.
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In accord with the world that we were born of, we are sinners that seek to
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delight our hearts outside of You and Your prescriptions.
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You are merciful to warn us not to set our hopes on a fallen world and provide
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means of escape.
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We are stubborn, doubting You and clinging to a world who's destruction is
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sure.
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You are again merciful to seize our hearts when we do not listen.
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We remain fickle in our conviction of Your warnings though.
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We have a love for the dying world that will inevitably fail us, and we
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continue to ponder what it offers.
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We carry the inclination to again gaze upon that from which we must depart.
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We doubt You and we ponder the hopes of the flesh.
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Though we often lack contentment, we are complacent.
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We purpose our days to satisfy desires rooted in a world that we must depart
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from.
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We set our cravings and delight on that which is of this world, rather than
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pouring ourselves into eternal good.
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We delight in possessions and entertainment and vacations, and we let the
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eternal weightiness of our brothers' faithfulness fall by the wayside.
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We neglect warning others of the wrath to come.
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We are embarrassed to speak of Your judgment.
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We live as if these few decades in our fallen bodies are the only years we will
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ever live.
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We live as though all that we ever do, we must do now, having little hope for
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the surpassing majesty of the eternity that You have planned for us.
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We work for advancement in the fallen world, giving insufficient thought to
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investment in the world to come.
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We pay little mind to the rewards of the age to come.
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We revel in the faded glories of history, seldom recognizing that the glories
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of the great empires of this age and ages past as the paltry things that they
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are compared to the glory of the kingdom to come.
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Now, we ask that You forgive us.
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We ask because of the blood of Your Son, which was shed for us.
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You seized our hearts to awaken us to our peril, now keep hold and ensure that
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we press on to the safety that You prescribe.
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It is in the name Your righteous Son, Christ Jesus that we pray.
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Amen.
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