{"id":1035,"date":"2023-10-09T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinity.mithrilmedia.io\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2023-10-09T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T23:51:39","slug":"sunday-sermon-october-8-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedarlutheran.org\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Sermon, October 08, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 5:1\u20137<\/span>
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5 <\/span><\/p>

Let me sing for my beloved
    my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
    on a very fertile hill.
2 <\/span><\/p>

He dug it and cleared it of stones,
    and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
    and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and he looked for it to yield grapes,
    but it yielded wild grapes.<\/span><\/p>

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And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
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What more was there to do for my vineyard,
    that I have not done in it?
When I looked for it to yield grapes,
    why did it yield wild grapes?<\/span><\/p>

5 <\/span><\/p>

And now I will tell you
    what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
    and it shall be devoured;[<\/span>a<\/a>]
I will break down its wall,
    and it shall be trampled down.
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I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.<\/span><\/p>

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For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
    is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
    are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
    but behold, bloodshed;[<\/span>b<\/a>]
for righteousness,
    but behold, an outcry!
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Epistle Reading: Philippians 3:4b\u201314<\/span><\/p>

If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law,[<\/span>c<\/a>] blameless. 7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith\u2014 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.<\/span><\/p>


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12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/p>


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Gospel Reading: Matthew 21:33\u201346<\/span><\/p>

33 \u201cHear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. 34 When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants[<\/span>c<\/a>] to the tenants to get his fruit. 35 And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. 37 Finally he sent his son to them, saying, \u2018They will respect my son.\u2019 38 But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, \u2018This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.\u2019 39 And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. 40 When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?\u201d 41 They said to him, \u201cHe will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.\u201d<\/span><\/p>

42 Jesus said to them, \u201cHave you never read in the Scriptures:<\/span><\/p>


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\u201c\u2018The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
    and it is marvelous in our eyes\u2019?<\/span><\/p>


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43 Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. 44 And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.\u201d[<\/span>e<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>

45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. 46 And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/youtu.be\/rMTvGco0XBQ Old Testament Reading: Isaiah 5:1\u20137 5  Let me sing for my beloved    my love song concerning his vineyard:My beloved had a vineyard    on a very fertile hill.2  He dug it and cleared it of stones,    and planted it with choice vines;he built a watchtower in the midst of it,    and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-sermons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t