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PRAYER FROM LUTHERS PRAYERS:

Dear Lord God and Father, convert and control. Convertthose who are still to become children and members of your

kingdom, that together we may serve you in your kingdom in

the right faith and true love and pass from this kingdombegun here into your eternal kingdom. Control those who

would not withdraw their might and means from disturbingyour kingdom. May they be dethroned and in humiliation

stop molesting your kingdom. Amen

From Luthers Small Catechism:The Apostles Creed

Third Article: Sanctification

I believe in the Holy Spirit,the holy catholic Church,

the communion of saints,the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,and the life everlasting. Amen

What does this mean?

I believe that I cannot by my own understanding or effort

believe in Jesus Christ my Lord, or come to him. But theHoly Spirit has called me through the Gospel, enlightened me

with his gifts, and sanctified and kept me in true faith.

In the same way he calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies

the whole Christian church on earth, and keeps it united withJesus Christ in the one true faith.

In this Christian church day after day he fully forgives my

sins and the sins of all believers. On the last day he will raiseme and all the dead and give me and all believers in Christ

eternal life.

This is most certainly true.

FIFTH SUNDAY

IN LENT

Almighty God, our redeemer, in our weakness we have failed

to be your messengers of forgiveness and hope in the world.Renew us by your Holy Spirit, that we may follow your

commands and proclaim your reign of love; through yourSon, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you

and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

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Gospel: John 12: 1-8

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, thehome of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 2 There

they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was

one of those at the table with him. 3 Mary took a pound ofcostly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus feet, and

wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with thefragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of the

disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, 5 Why

was this perfume not sold for three hundred denari and themoney given to the poor? 6 (He said this not because he

cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, he kept thecommon purse and used to steal what was put into it.) 7 Jesus

said, Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keepit for the day of my burial. 8 You always have the poor with

you, but you do not always have me.

SECOND Reading: Philippians 3:4b-14

If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have

more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of thepeople of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of

Hebrews, as to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as to zeal, a persecutorof the church, as to righteousness under the law, blameless.

7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to

regard as loss because of Christ. 8 More than that, I regardeverything as loss because of the surpassing value of

knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have sufferedthe loss of all things, and I regard 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 onethat comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from

God based on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power ofhis resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming

like him in his death, 11 if somehow I may attain theresurrection from the dead.

12 Not that I have already obtained this or have

already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my own,

because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Beloved, I do

not consider that I have made it my own but this one thing Ido, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what

lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of theheavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?

Not as though I had already attained, either were already

perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that forwhich also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Philippians iii. 12.

Therefore none of the saints regards or confesses

himself to be just, but they always pray to be made just andwait for those who confess that they are sinners and abhor

their sins to be justified.

Hence the whole life of the new and faithful andspiritual people consists in the fact that with the inward

groaning of their hearts, with the cry of their works, with thetoil of their bodies they desire and implore for this one gift:

that they may be satisfied until death; that they may never

stand still, never think themselves to have already attained,never regard any work as the goal of justification actually

already attained, but await it as though it were beyond theirreach so long as they still commit sins.

Commentary on Romans. 146, 153 f.

Taken from the book:

Day by Day We Magnify Thee by Martin Luther

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