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09 Pentecost 18th Sunday

This document contains excerpts from Martin Luther's sermons and writings on various theological topics: 1) The first excerpt discusses the relationship between God's power and word, stating they are one and the same, with God's powerful word creating and sustaining all things. 2) The next sections contain prayers and passages from Luther's Small Catechism explaining the meaning of the Lord's Prayer and its petitions. 3) The final portions are from a Gospel reading and Hebrews discussing how God sustains all things through His powerful word and how Christ was made lower than the angels but now reigns over all creation.

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09 Pentecost 18th Sunday

This document contains excerpts from Martin Luther's sermons and writings on various theological topics: 1) The first excerpt discusses the relationship between God's power and word, stating they are one and the same, with God's powerful word creating and sustaining all things. 2) The next sections contain prayers and passages from Luther's Small Catechism explaining the meaning of the Lord's Prayer and its petitions. 3) The final portions are from a Gospel reading and Hebrews discussing how God sustains all things through His powerful word and how Christ was made lower than the angels but now reigns over all creation.

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power has it not itself but of the active and creative power of God.

And here especially the power and the Word must not be sundered,
for the power and the Word are one, which means there is one active
or powerful Word. So that power is the essence and the nature of the
EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY
Word which worketh all things. AFTER PENTECOST
Sermon from the year, 1522. W.A.10. I (i). 158 f.

Taken from the book:


Day by Day We Magnify Thee by Martin Luther
Page 78

FROM LUTHER’S PRAYERS:


Eternal God, you do love me and ask that with all my heart I rely
on you in all things. It is your earnest desire to be my God and I
must regard you as God or suffer the loss eternal salvation. My
heart shall neither build on nor rely on anything else, whether it
be property, honor, wisdom, power, purity, or any other creature.
Amen.

FROM LUTHER’S SMALL CATECHISM:


The Lord’s Prayer:
The Third Petition
Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
What is this?
In fact, God’s good and gracious will comes about without
our prayer, but we ask in this prayer that it may also come
about in and among us.
How does this come about?
Whenever God breaks and hinders every evil scheme
and will of the devil, the world, and our flesh that would not
allow us to hallow God’s name and would prevent the
coming of his kingdom. And God’s will comes about Our Lord Jesus, you have endured the doubts and foolish questions of
whenever God strengthens us and keeps us steadfast in his every generation. Forgive us for trying to be judge over you, and
Word and in faith until the end of our lives. This is God’s grant us the confident faith to acknowledge you as Lord.
gracious and good will.
GOSPEL: Mark 10: 2-16
Some Pharisees came, and to test (Jesus) they asked, “Is it lawful “What are human beings that you are mindful of them.
for a man to divorce his wife?” 3 He answered them, “What did or mortals, that you care for them?
Moses command you?” 4 They said, “Moses allowed a man to 7 You have made them for a little while lower than the angels;
write a certificate of dismissal and divorce her.”5 But Jesus said to you have crowned them with glory and honor,
them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this 8 subjecting all things under their feet.”
commandment for you. 6 But from the beginning of creation, Now in subjecting all things to them, God left nothing outside their
‘God made them male and female.’ 7 For this reason a man shall control. As it is, we do not see everything in subjection to them, 9 but
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the
two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of
flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
separate.” 10 It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all
10 Then in the house the disciples asked him again about things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the
this matter. 11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For the one
marries another commits adultery against her; 12 and if she who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For
divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sister,
13 People were bringing little children to him in order that 12 saying,
he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. “I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters,
14 But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, in the midst of the congregation I will praise you.”
“Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to
such as these that the kingdom belongs. 15 Truly I tell you,
whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will
never enter it.” 16 And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?
on them, and blessed them. He upholdeth all things by the word of his power.
Hebrews i.3.
Second Reading: Hebrew 1:1-4; 2:5-12
Here the Apostle says he upholds all things. If He upholds all things, He is
Long ago God spoke to our ancestor in many and varied ways by not upheld Himself and is a Being above all things, which none can be but
the prophets, 2 but in these days he has spoken to us by a Son, God alone. The upholding means that He nourishes and sustains all things,
whom he appointed heir to all things, through whom he has also so that all things were not only made by Him but continue in Him and
created the worlds. 3 He is the reflection of God’s glory and the sustained by Him, as the Apostle Paul says; all things consist in Him and
exact imprint of God’s very being; and he sustains all things by through Him. And what a fine and lovely word that is he uses when he
his powerful word. When he had made purification for sins, he says: ‘God upholds’. He does not drive, or hunt or roar; He gently upholds
sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having and lets all creatures enjoy His loving kindness, as it is written in the book
become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is of Wisdom viii. I:’The wisdom of God reacheth from one end of the world
more excellent than theirs. to the other with full strength, and ordereth all things graciously’.
2:5 Now God did not subject the coming world, about The meaning of this text is that Christ upholds all things by the
which we are speaking, to angels. 6 But someone has testified Word of His power, that is by the working of His power. For by the
somewhere, working of His power all things are upheld, and all that has being and

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