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Please be seated.

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Say, to those with an anxious heart, be strong fear

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not behold

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your God will come with vengeance with the recompense of God.

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He will come and save you.

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This word of God from Isaiah

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35 is fulfilled in our Gospel reading from Mark 7.

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You just heard the story.

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She is a gentile woman and she has an anxious heart.

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She lives on edge out on the margins Tyre and Sidon, but she lives in

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a nightmare.

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The devil has her daughter and won't let go for anything.

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There is no where to go for help.

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They live on the borderlands of those who have the inheritance of God.

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She is a Greek and a Syrophoenician by birth.

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She is not one of them.

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She has no

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right.

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She has no claim on God's help his power, his salvation.

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But in spite of that fact, she comes to Jesus and she hangs on to him

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and will not let go for anything.

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This woman is one of the most amazing people in the scriptures.

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She hears the word about Jesus

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and she takes action.

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She goes to him.

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She asks him to save her little daughter from the grasp of the devil.

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And he says to her, let the children be fed

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first for it, is not right to take the children's bread and throw it

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to the dogs.

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In effect, he says no to her but she keeps after him

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anyway, she persists she comes to him.

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She falls at his feet entreating him.

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She begs him to have compassion on her daughter.

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She claims what she has

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no right to claim.

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She has no equity with the children of Israel and in spite of that

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fact.

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Nevertheless.

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God's promises are fulfilled for her.

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They are fulfilled in the person of Jesus.

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Jesus saves her daughter.

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She is restored.

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And she is her mother's own again.

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The word of God from Isaiah 35 is accomplished in our Gospel reading

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from Mark 7.

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You just heard the story.

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The deaf-mute is a man with an anxious heart.

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He lives on edge in the Decapolis.

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He has a problem

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that is beyond any one to cure.

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He cannot hear and no one can restore his hearing.

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He cannot speak

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and no one can restore his speech but he has friends who know about

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Jesus.

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They bring him to Jesus to lay hands on him.

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They beg him to heal their friend and Jesus touches the man and

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speaks healing restoring words. Ephphatha,

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be opened.

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And God's promises are accomplished for them.

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They are accomplished in Jesus who restores their friends hearing and

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who restores his speech, the deaf-mute, man, and his friends are some

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of the most amazed people in the scriptures.

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This Jesus does all things

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well, they say he even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.

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God keeps his Isaiah 35 promises.

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He heals he saves, he restores.

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Jesus is the promise of God, fulfilled accomplished.

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Jesus is the living promise of a gracious

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God come in human flesh, to save to restore

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a fallen world.

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In these latter days of this Fallen World, there are many anxieties,

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many fears to face, and they can become overwhelming at times.

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Terrorism and bloodshed causing grief and suffering

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all over the world. Earthquakes hurricanes, destroying lives and

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livelihoods property and homes.

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Sickness and disease

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never seem to end and keep coming back.

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And there is a public parade of corruption and treachery that passes

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daily

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before our eyes, the leaders celebrating their deception, betrayal

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lies, accept as propaganda

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there's are 

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meaningless words, powerless words.

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Lawlessness wickedness, hatred persecution, ruined relationships,

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faithless is

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it's only getting worse sins corruption seems to be our present and

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our future.

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It's taken

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hold of us and will not let go.

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What's going on in the world is only part of our anxieties.

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Our own sinful lives can weigh heavy upon us.

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Our thoughts and actions against God and his word.

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Our failure to love and respect our jealousies anger lusts lies that

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we tell ourselves and others.

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All of these things weaken us and pull us further away from God and

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his promises. Because of our sin

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we don't have any claim on God's power his healing, his salvation.

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In our sin, sin holds onto us and will not let go and we are powerless

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to end

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its destruction

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in our lives. We're unable to save ourselves and we need to turn from

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our sins daily and look to God.

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And his word comes to us and for us

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in the words from Isaiah 35, say to those with an anxious heart, be

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strong fear

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not behold

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your God will come with vengeance with the recompense of God.

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He will come and save you.

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But there is more, then then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and

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the ears of the deaf unstopped.

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Then shall the lame, man

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leap like a deer and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters

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break forth in the wilderness and the streams in the desert.

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The Burning Sands shall become a pool and the thirsty ground springs

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of water.

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This Promise of God is fulfilled in our Gospel reading from Mark 7.

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And it is fulfilled today here for each and every one of us.

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We stand before God with no claim on his mercy.

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No rights to his Justice, his healing, his salvation.

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And in spite of that fact,

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nevertheless

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his promises are for us. Today

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Our Savior.

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Jesus comes to us.

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He speaks words of comfort to anxious hearts and these words drive

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away our fears.

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They strengthen our faith, his words, heal and save.

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They mend, what is broken.

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They restore, what is lost.

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They bring us back to himself

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and keep us close to him.

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And this is the best place in the whole world to be because with

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Jesus

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our Salvation is one. God's Vindication his justification of us

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as his own people is accomplished and our restoration to him

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and our restoration of the whole creation is complete.

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God is keeping his promise, according to his word at work here and

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throughout the world.

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His word is working in baptisms word and water in washing and

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cleansing.

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Jesus is at work in his Holy Supper today here

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and now our savior Jesus comes to you.

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He gives himself to you his body, his blood for you.

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His word is accomplishing what it promises.

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Delivering his forgiveness.

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Bestowing his salvation, ensuring his new life.

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The coming of God in human flesh, to reset it to save and restore

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all creation has changed everything and he has come and continues to

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come. Here

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and now our only hope is in Jesus, our only cause for Comfort our only

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source of peace

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is Jesus himself. As God promised, he has come with vengeance.

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He has accomplished his Justice and imposed, his just penalties

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against his enemies.

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And he has sent his own son to die and to be restored to life again.

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So that anxious, fearful people

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may be saved and restored to him forever.

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God's word is true.

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All his promises are fulfilled accomplished and fleshed in Jesus

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Christ.

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And this is what God has to say to our anxious world.

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Be strong fear

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not. Behold

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your God will come with vengeance with the recompense of God.

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He will come and save you.

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Amen.

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Please stand for the confession of the Nicene Creed.