Mid-Week Lenten
Vespers, 2020
Pastor Gregory L.
Jackson
The Psalmody p.
The Lections The Passion History
The Lections The Passion History
The Sermon – I AM - The True Vine
The Prayers
The Lord’s Prayer
Prayers and Announcements
- Treatment and recovery - Rush
Limbaugh, Kermit Way, Christina Jackson. Recovery - John Hicks.
- In the last stage of cancer and
heart disease - Tom Fulcher, Diane Popp's brother-in-law.
- Diagnosis and surgery - Randy
Anderson, Andrea's father.
- Someone's brother has health
issues.
- Pray for our country as the
major trials begin.
- Wednesdays are Vespers at 7 PM,
followed by The Gospel of John in Greek, translating slowly for newcomers.
One of the Greatest of All Lutheran Hymnals
1 Salvation unto us has come
by God’s free grace and favor.
Our works cannot avert our doom;
the law can save us never.
Faith looks to Jesus Christ alone,
who for his people did atone;
he is our one Redeemer.
by God’s free grace and favor.
Our works cannot avert our doom;
the law can save us never.
Faith looks to Jesus Christ alone,
who for his people did atone;
he is our one Redeemer.
2 What God did in his law demand
and none to him could render
caused wrath and woe on ev'ry hand
for man, the vile offender.
Our flesh has not the pure desires
God's holy law of us requires,
and lost is our condition.
and none to him could render
caused wrath and woe on ev'ry hand
for man, the vile offender.
Our flesh has not the pure desires
God's holy law of us requires,
and lost is our condition.
3 It was a false, misleading dream
that God his law had given
so sinners could themselves redeem
and by their works gain heaven.
The law is just a mirror bright
to bring the inbred sin to light
that lurks within our nature.
that God his law had given
so sinners could themselves redeem
and by their works gain heaven.
The law is just a mirror bright
to bring the inbred sin to light
that lurks within our nature.
4 From sin our flesh could not abstain;
sin held its sway unceasing.
The task was hopeless and in vain;
our guilt was e’er increasing.
None can remove sin’s poisoned dart
or purify our guileful heart,
so deep is our corruption.
sin held its sway unceasing.
The task was hopeless and in vain;
our guilt was e’er increasing.
None can remove sin’s poisoned dart
or purify our guileful heart,
so deep is our corruption.
5 Yet as the law must be fulfilled
or we must die despairing,
Christ Jesus came; God’s wrath he stilled,
our human nature sharing.
The law he has for us obeyed
and thus the Father’s vengeance stayed
which over us had rulèd.
or we must die despairing,
Christ Jesus came; God’s wrath he stilled,
our human nature sharing.
The law he has for us obeyed
and thus the Father’s vengeance stayed
which over us had rulèd.
6 All blessing, honor, thanks, and praise
to Father, Son, and Spirit,
the God who saved us by his grace--
all glory to his merit!
O triune God in heav’n above,
who has revealed your saving love,
your blessèd name be hallowed.
---to Father, Son, and Spirit,
the God who saved us by his grace--
all glory to his merit!
O triune God in heav’n above,
who has revealed your saving love,
your blessèd name be hallowed.
15 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
The first four verses are mysterious, then they are clear. Many people will not get the meaning because they do not garden. It may seem very symbolic, only.
Jesus is in charge of the vineyard, and the Father is the farmer. This illustrates the dual but harmonious role. This works exactly like rose growing, so I will stick with roses.
When a rose bush has brown, dead wood, that little bit of plant will never grow. It also keeps the bush from growing as it should. A rose full of dead wood will barely bloom. When it is pruned it will burst into bloom in two weeks.
So Jesus says, every branch in Him (associated with Christ) that does not bear fruit will be taken away. Every branch that does bear fruit will be cleansed so it bears every more fruit.
The more I raised roses, the more I understood this. Dabblers do not want to cut the roses from their bushes. Knockout roses are treated like china-ware, left alone to gather dust. But every time one bloom is cut away, more grow and the roots grow to meet the demand.
The ultimate fruit of a rose is a rose hip, a seed pod used for making Vitamin C and rose hip tea.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
2 παν κλημα εν εμοι μη φερον καρπον αιρει αυτο, και παν το καρπον φερον καθαιρει αυτο ινα πλειονα καρπον φερη
3 ηδη υμεις καθαροι εστε δια τον λογον ον λελαληκα υμιν
Every Katherine should get this, because every branch bearing fruit is cleansed, purified. And you are purified because of the Word I have solemnly spoken to you.
Matthew 5:8 μακαριοι οι καθαροι τη καρδια οτι αυτοι τον θεον οψονται
Blessed are the pure (katharine) in heart, for they shall see God.
The forgiven see God, and the absolved from sin bear fruit, the fruits of the Spirit.
Greek Lesson John 1 Stephanus
16 και εκ
του πληρωματος αυτου ημεις παντες ελαβομεν και χαριν αντι
χαριτος
charismatic, charism, eucharist
17 οτι ο
νομος δια μωσεως εδοθη η χαρις και η αληθεια δια ιησου χριστου εγενετο
18 θεον
ουδεις εωρακεν πωποτε; ο μονογενης υιος ο ων εις τον κολπον του πατρος
εκεινος εξηγησατο
exegete
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19 και αυτη εστιν η μαρτυρια του ιωαννου οτε απεστειλαν οι ιουδαιοι εξ ιεροσολυμων ιερεις και λευιτας ινα ερωτησωσιν αυτον συ τις ει
20 και ωμολογησεν και ουκ ηρνησατο και ωμολογησεν οτι ουκ ειμι εγω ο χριστος
21 και ηρωτησαν αυτον τι ουν ηλιας ει συ και λεγει ουκ ειμι ο προφητης ει συ και απεκριθη ου
22 ειπον ουν αυτω τις ει ινα αποκρισιν δωμεν τοις πεμψασιν ημας τι λεγεις περι σεαυτου
23 εφη εγω φωνη βοωντος εν τη ερημω ευθυνατε την οδον κυριου καθως ειπεν ησαιας ο προφητης
