SEASONS OF THE CHURCH YEAR
SIXTH SUNDAY of EASTER
The Church Year is divided into Festivals beginning with Christmas, which includes 4 Sundays in Advent and Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
This is followed by Epiphany Season which begins with the Epiphany of Our Lord and ends 9 Sundays later with the Transfiguration of Our Lord.
The Time of Easter follows beginning with Lent, followed by Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday and concludes with Good Friday. Easter Season begins with the Resurrection of Our Lord and includes the Ascension of Our Lord and ends with Pentecost.
The first Pentecost took place on the 50th day after Easter Sunday when the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, enabling them to testify boldly to spread the Good News of the Gospel.
The Time of the Church is the Season after Pentecost, beginning with The Holy Trinity, the First Sunday after Pentecost through the Twenty-seventh Sunday after Pentecost ending with the Sunday of Fulfillment, the Last Sunday after Pentecost.
This Sunday we mark the SIXTH SUNDAY of EASTER.
SERMON TEXT: Rev 21:10-14, 22, 23 NIV
SERMON THEME:
The Church Worldwide and Triumphant
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.
11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel.
13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west.
14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Reflection:
Defining the church as shepherd and sheep (John 10:1–18) denies any claim that a special group within the church is the true church, whether the papacy, the local congregation alone, the clergy alone or even one particular institutional church body, such as the LCMS. The shepherd and the sheep belong together, regardless of time and place in the world. That happens primarily in worship, whether here on earth or there in heaven. In the Church Triumphant in heaven, God and the Lamb gather the great multitude of saints adorned as a bride before her husband; the saints stand before the throne to receive from Him and to praise Him with joyful thanksgiving (Rev. 21:1–7). Even now, before the final day, the church is known on earth in worship, where God gives and His saints receive and give Him joyful thanks. Therefore, we deny that a group of Christians can be church without the office of preaching and we deny that preachers can be church without faithful hearers. A congregation might be “vacant,” but she is never without the preaching office of Christ, even when there is no ordained man to fill it at the moment. The Lord’s promise that wherever two or three are gathered in His name, there He is among them (Matt. 18:20)...
The Lutheran Witness
‘I Believe in One Holy Christian Church’: The doctrine of the church
June 1, 2021 By Jason D. Lane
EASTER HYMN:
IN CHRIST THERE IS NO EAST OR WEST
1. In Christ there is no east or west,
In Him no south or north,
But one great fellowship of love
Throughout the whole wide earth.
2. In Him shall true hearts ev'rywhere
Their high communion find;
His service is the golden cord
Close-binding all mankind.
3. Join hands then, brothers of the faith,
Whate'er your race may be;
Who serves my Father as a son
Is surely kin to me.
4. In Christ now meet both east and west,
In Him meet south and north;
All Christly souls are one in Him
Throughout the whole wide earth.
Hear the Sermon on YouTube
(posted shortly after the Service but not live streamed)
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