5/13/21 - 7:00 PM - The Festival of the Ascension of Our Lord - Deuteronomy 33:26-29 - Selfishness is Rolled Away

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The Festival of the Ascension of Our Lord

This feast day has everything in it – Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, the Ascension itself, the anticipation of Pentecost and the whole of Half Year of the Church. It’s Ascension Day! Aren’t you happy for him! He has triumphed and entered into his glory by keeping all of his Word! His triumph today guarantees that he will always keep his Word. Aren’t you happy for yourself, too!

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First Lesson: Deuteronomy 33:26-29
Where is there a god like our God, who does such wondrous and mighty things, and all of it for our benefit? The gods of pleasure disappoint and go away. The gods of gold and silver are used up, are stolen and otherwise disappear. The god of self is always helpless and alone. But this is our God, the God who saves, the God who endures all and triumphs for us and for our salvation. May he remain our God forever and ever! May his Word keep bringing him to us and us to him that we may enjoy the blessings here described and promised, blessings granted even now (whether we see it or not), blessings yet to be fully enjoyed when he keeps his final promise and takes us to heaven


Second Lesson: Ephesians 4:7-16
This reading can serve as a bridge to what is coming in the second half of the year. Christ by his life and death, by his resurrection and ascension, has won for himself a Church. All of its members alike have been redeemed from sin and death and hell. To each he has given gifts in addition to the gifts of salvation in Word and sacraments common to all believers. The gifts to each individually are intended as gifts for the benefit of all collectively. By those gifts administered according to his Word each and all are served by Christ himself, who in love has so generously distributed his gifts as a great and generous King to subjects he has loved to death and beyond. Let us then cling to him in his Word that we may grow in him and in his grace to bring forth fruit in our hearts and in our lives of mutual service.


Gospel: Luke 24:44-53
Here we have what Luther said so often: God would never lie to us! No better proof is there than the parting words of Jesus. We might have expected the disciples to be sad. But with the confirmation of all of the Scriptures and the assurance that he would always be with them in his Word how could they help but rejoice and be glad. He has triumphed. He did it all in the lowly human nature, now fully exalted. And he did it all for us! His triumph therefore is our triumph. It is ours to share in the preaching of repentance and forgiveness. We have him still in that message that saves because he kept his next promise to send and to keep on sending the Spirit with the power to convert and keep us until he comes again. 44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”


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