Occasion: Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Colour: Green
Order of Service: Matins

Prelude: #555, "Salvation unto Us Has Come"
Office Hymn: #562, "All Mankind Fell in Adam's Fall"
Hymn to Depart: #829, "Christ the Eternal Lord"
Postlude: #591, "This Is the Spirit's Entry Now"

Readings:
Reading	1: Exodus 20:1–17
Reading	2: Romans 6:3–11
Reading	3: Matthew 5:20–26


Sermon: “The Reconciliation of Jesus Christ” 

Our Only Hope Is in Christ’s Righteousness 

“Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matt 5:20). God demands nothing less than perfection and holiness from you in regard to His commandments (Ex. 20:1–17). Your only hope, then, is not in your own goodness but in the goodness of Christ, who did not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them for you. In Christ, your righteousness does indeed exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees. For you have been baptized into Christ’s death and your sinful nature crucified. Therefore, he who has died has been freed from sin (Rom. 6:1–11). You are now raised with Christ to walk in newness of life and to share in His resurrection on the Last Day. Christ has brought you through the baptismal sea “out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Ex. 20:2). Therefore, “consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 6:11).

As always, our service can be found online at https://loganmonkton.lutheranchurchcanada.ca/first-lutheran-church/services/

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