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