2017-12-10 — Genuine And Lasting Comfort

Church Year: Advent 1:
Date: December 10, 2017

Theme: Genuine And Lasting Comfort

1. Your Shame
2. Your Forgiveness

– Isaiah 40:1-11

– Pastor: John Hein

The Order of Worship: Bulletin

Liturgy: TLH, p. 5 ff.

Hymns:

WS 701 : Prepare the Royal Highway
TLH 61 : Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People
TLH 90 st. 1,5,8: Come, Your Hearts and Voices Raising

Theme: Genuine And Lasting Comfort

1. Your Shame
2. Your Forgiveness

Isaiah 40:1–11

Comfort for God’s People

40:1   Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2   Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
  that her warfare¹ is ended,
    that her iniquity is pardoned,
  that she has received from the LORD’s hand
    double for all her sins.


3   A voice cries:²
  “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD;
    make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4   Every valley shall be lifted up,
    and every mountain and hill be made low;
  the uneven ground shall become level,
    and the rough places a plain.
5   And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,
    and all flesh shall see it together,
    for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

The Word of God Stands Forever

6   A voice says, “Cry!”
    And I said,³ “What shall I cry?”
  All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty⁴ is like the flower of the field.
7   The grass withers, the flower fades
    when the breath of the LORD blows on it;
    surely the people are grass.
8   The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.

The Greatness of God

9   Go on up to a high mountain,
    O Zion, herald of good news;⁵
  lift up your voice with strength,
    O Jerusalem, herald of good news;⁶
    lift it up, fear not;
  say to the cities of Judah,
    “Behold your God!”
10   Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might,
    and his arm rules for him;
  behold, his reward is with him,
    and his recompense before him.
11   He will tend his flock like a shepherd;
    he will gather the lambs in his arms;
  he will carry them in his bosom,
    and gently lead those that are with young.

(ESV)