The Lutheran Church of the Messiah Sermons

Isaiah 7:10-16 10   Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, saying,   11   Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.   12   But Ahaz said, I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test.   13   Then Isaiah said: “Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary mortals, that you weary my God also?   14   Therefore the Lord himself will give you...

Isaiah 35:1-10 1   The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus   2   it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.   3   Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.   4   S...

Isaiah 11:1-10 1   A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.   2   The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.   3   His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears...

Isaiah 2:1-5 1   This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:   2   In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.   3   Many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teac...

Jeremiah 23:1-6 1   Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the Lord.   2   Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people: It is you who have scattered my flock, and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. So I will attend to you for your evil doings, says the Lord.   3   Then I myself will gath...

Isaiah 65:17-25 17   For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind.   18   But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight.   19   I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of dis...

Haggai 1:15b – 2:9 15   on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius, 1   on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:   2   “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them,   3   ‘Who of you is left who saw t...

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 1   In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream:  2   I, Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea,   3   and four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one another. 15   As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me, and...

Joel 2:23-32 23   O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God; for he has given the early rain for your vindication, he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.   24   The threshing floors shall be full of grain, the vats shall overflow with wine and oil.   25   I will repay you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, th...

Jeremiah 3 1:27-34 27   The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.   28   And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord.   29   In those days they shall no longer say: &#8...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 1   This is the text of the letter that the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets and all the other people Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon. 4   This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:   5   “Build ho...

Jeremiah 8:18 – 9:1 18   My joy is gone, grief is upon me, my heart is sick.   19   Hark, the cry of my poor people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)   20   “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.”   2...

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 11   At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem: A hot wind comes from me out of the bare heights in the desert toward my poor people, not to winnow or cleanse—   12   a wind too strong for that. Now it is I who speak in judgment against them. 22   “For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding....

Jeremiah 18:1-11 1   The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:   2   “Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words.”   3   So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at his wheel.   4   The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him....

Jeremiah 2:4-13 4   Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel.   5   Thus says the Lord: What wrong did your ancestors find in me that they went far from me, and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves?   6   They did not say, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a lan...

Jeremiah 1:4-10 4 Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, 5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” 6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a boy.” 7 But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, “I am only a boy’; for you shall go...

Isaiah 5:1-7 1   Let me sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.   2   He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. 3   And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and people of Judah,...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20 1   The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 10   Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!   11   What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and th...

Hosea 1:2-10 2   When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”   3   So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.   4   And the Lord said to him, “Name him Jezreel; for in a little while I w...

Amos 8:1-12 1   This is what the Lord God showed me—a basket of summer fruit.  2   He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me, “The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass them by.   3   The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies...

Amos 7:7-17 7   This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.   8   And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by; 9   the high places of Isaac sha...

2 Kings 5:1-14 1   Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy.  2   Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.   3   She said to her mistress, &#8...

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 1 Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2 Elijah said to Elisha, “Stay here; for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. … 6 Then Elijah said to him, &#...

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 1   Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?   2   On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand;   3   beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out:   4   “To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live. 22   The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of h...

Acts 2:1-21 1   When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.   2   And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.   3   Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.   4   All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other...