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The Fifth Sunday in Lent - April 6, 2025

He Just Keep's Coming, and Coming, and Coming 

Summary – First, I showed an image of the Energizer bunny, as a way of commenting on the sermon title. The Energizer bunny's commercial always enders with He just keeps going, and going, and going. I then made the key point that often we make the Bible about us--recall the serpent's words to the woman in the garden, "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Ge 3:4). In truth the Bible–the Word of God–is really about the Word made flesh: Jesus. In today's parable we often think its about the tenants and how they treat the servants whom the owner of the vineyard sends. Rather, the parable's more comforting and hopeful message focuses on God coming to us: he just keeps coming and coming, and coming. I  highlighted how God has come to his creation: in the garden to the first man and woman, to Abram who becomes Abraham because of YHWH's promise to bless all nations through him (he bears the promise of Jesus in his lineage), to Noah in the building of the Ark, to the people of Israel through the prophet Samuel, and through Jonah whom YHWH uses to call the people of Nineveh to repentance. These episodes exemplify God's coming to us. 

Today is no different: God keeps coming to us through his Word in all its forms: Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and the Proclamation of His promises–all are based on God's Word! When he comes, how do we receive him? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Baptized Life – Remembering daily how God comes to us gives us orientation for what we do. God comes to us through His Word. To know God is to know his Word. Without his Word we don't know God our creator and we are lacking as his creatures. The Bible, the Word of God, brings us Jesus, the Word of God. Jesus gives his life, for he forgives our sins. Without the Word, we slowly die into belief. The Word of God births us into the new creation that Jesus embodies in his resurrection. Life is all about being in the Word!

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