WEBVTT STYLE ::cue { color: #ffffff; } 00:00:00.410 --> 00:00:01.354 In the name of the Father, 00:00:01.402 --> 00:00:03.466 and of the Son and of the Holy 00:00:03.498 --> 00:00:07.546 Spirit. Amen. Christ is risen. 00:00:07.738 --> 00:00:10.670 He is risen indeed. Hallelujah. 00:00:12.850 --> 00:00:15.130 Look to the foretaste 00:00:15.290 --> 00:00:16.880 of the feast to come 00:00:17.890 --> 00:00:20.442 in the window of the church 00:00:20.506 --> 00:00:21.630 of all nations. 00:00:23.970 --> 00:00:26.070 But only glance at it briefly, 00:00:27.450 --> 00:00:29.720 because if you stare too long, 00:00:31.130 --> 00:00:33.030 you may begin to weep. 00:00:35.050 --> 00:00:37.646 You may begin weeping as Rachel 00:00:37.698 --> 00:00:40.380 did for her children, 00:00:40.830 --> 00:00:44.074 refusing to be comforted because 00:00:44.192 --> 00:00:45.866 they are no more. 00:00:46.048 --> 00:00:48.634 Because they are not there. 00:00:48.832 --> 00:00:53.902 Because all of her poor and 00:00:53.956 --> 00:00:58.122 oppressed and lame and racially 00:00:58.266 --> 00:01:02.240 disenfranchised are not there. 00:01:04.390 --> 00:01:08.340 Is there no justice in the land? 00:01:11.910 --> 00:01:14.754 So we must begin at the 00:01:14.792 --> 00:01:16.230 Exaltation and Last 00:01:16.300 --> 00:01:18.150 Judgment window. 00:01:19.450 --> 00:01:22.562 There we hear it with mighty 00:01:22.626 --> 00:01:24.370 peals of thunder, 00:01:24.450 --> 00:01:27.590 like the roar of many waters, 00:01:27.950 --> 00:01:31.430 the voice of a great multitude. 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:34.970 Alleluia for the Lord our God 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.286 the Almighty reigns. 00:01:37.478 --> 00:01:40.146 Let us rejoice and exalt 00:01:40.198 --> 00:01:42.138 and give him the glory. 00:01:42.314 --> 00:01:44.830 For the marriage of the Lamb has 00:01:44.900 --> 00:01:47.742 come and his bride has 00:01:47.796 --> 00:01:49.440 made herself ready. 00:01:52.360 --> 00:01:55.960 In that thunderous announcement 00:01:56.300 --> 00:01:58.152 lies the feast to 00:01:58.206 --> 00:01:59.972 end all feasts. 00:02:00.116 --> 00:02:02.250 And so the angel says 00:02:03.260 --> 00:02:05.624 blessed are those who are 00:02:05.662 --> 00:02:08.104 invited to the married 00:02:08.151 --> 00:02:10.699 supper of the Lamb. 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.916 Blessed indeed are those 00:02:16.018 --> 00:02:17.500 who are invited. 00:02:18.980 --> 00:02:21.132 A streaming multitude, 00:02:21.196 --> 00:02:22.944 more numerous than the 00:02:22.982 --> 00:02:25.520 stars in the heavens. 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:28.880 And who is invited? 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.190 The Lord Jesus tells us. 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:35.968 When you give a dinner 00:02:36.064 --> 00:02:37.460 or a banquet, 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:41.044 do not invite your friends or 00:02:41.082 --> 00:02:42.944 your brothers or your relatives 00:02:42.992 --> 00:02:45.908 or rich neighbors lest they also 00:02:45.994 --> 00:02:47.316 invite you in return 00:02:47.418 --> 00:02:49.060 and you be repaid. 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:51.700 But when you give a feast, 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:55.940 invite the poor, the crippled, 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:58.248 the lame, the blind, 00:02:58.344 --> 00:02:59.656 and you will be blessed, 00:02:59.688 --> 00:03:02.080 because they cannot repay you. 00:03:02.850 --> 00:03:05.806 For you will be repaid at the 00:03:05.828 --> 00:03:08.000 resurrection of the just. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:11.670 Would 00:03:13.480 --> 00:03:16.052 could the Lord invite any 00:03:16.106 --> 00:03:18.740 less to his feast? 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:23.732 And so Martin Franzmann's hymn O 00:03:23.786 --> 00:03:25.428 Kingly Love, don't look for it 00:03:25.434 --> 00:03:27.070 in LSB it's not there, 00:03:28.720 --> 00:03:30.620 proclaims the invitation. 00:03:31.920 --> 00:03:33.950 The feast is ready. 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:37.100 Come to the feast. 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:40.130 The good and the bad, 00:03:40.900 --> 00:03:43.280 come and be glad. 00:03:44.020 --> 00:03:46.464 Greatest and least, 00:03:46.662 --> 00:03:49.360 come to the feast. 00:03:52.920 --> 00:03:55.270 Greatest and least, 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.579 come to the feast. 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:01.796 We all like a foretaste of 00:04:01.817 --> 00:04:03.872 the feast to come. Well, 00:04:03.946 --> 00:04:07.320 there it is in the blank faces. 00:04:07.820 --> 00:04:09.512 You can identify them because 00:04:09.566 --> 00:04:11.050 you don't know them. 00:04:11.420 --> 00:04:12.970 But the Lord does. 00:04:13.820 --> 00:04:17.149 Every last one of them. 00:04:17.760 --> 00:04:19.452 It is the feast of all 00:04:19.505 --> 00:04:21.656 the nations, tribes, 00:04:21.768 --> 00:04:23.960 languages and peoples. 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:26.990 Every last one. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.436 Now we can look at the 00:04:33.457 --> 00:04:34.780 window of all nations 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:37.960 because we know where the feast 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:41.070 originates and who the bride is 00:04:41.760 --> 00:04:43.730 who has made herself ready. 00:04:45.220 --> 00:04:47.984 And for a moment we can 00:04:48.022 --> 00:04:49.600 hold back the tears. 00:04:52.420 --> 00:04:53.772 But how has the bride 00:04:53.836 --> 00:04:55.170 made herself ready? 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:57.488 The poor, the crippled, 00:04:57.584 --> 00:04:59.200 the lame, the blind, 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:01.280 the racially disenfranchised, 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:02.980 the Gentiles, 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.352 how are they the ones invited 00:05:06.416 --> 00:05:08.476 to the supper of the Lamb, 00:05:08.608 --> 00:05:10.570 how are they ready? 00:05:12.700 --> 00:05:14.452 The evangelist Matthew, 00:05:14.596 --> 00:05:16.164 represented by the winged 00:05:16.212 --> 00:05:17.640 man in the window, 00:05:18.700 --> 00:05:19.880 he knows. 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:23.515 Jesus healed them all 00:05:23.618 --> 00:05:24.732 and ordered them. 00:05:24.786 --> 00:05:27.100 He said not to make Him known. 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.356 This was to fulfill what was 00:05:29.378 --> 00:05:31.368 spoken by the prophet Isaiah. 00:05:31.464 --> 00:05:32.744 Behold my servant, 00:05:32.792 --> 00:05:34.683 whom I have chosen, my beloved, 00:05:34.732 --> 00:05:36.108 with whom my soul 00:05:36.204 --> 00:05:37.680 is well pleased. 00:05:38.020 --> 00:05:40.289 I will put my spirit upon Him, 00:05:41.220 --> 00:05:43.520 and He will proclaim justice 00:05:44.100 --> 00:05:45.680 to the Gentiles. 00:05:46.900 --> 00:05:48.076 He will not quarrel 00:05:48.108 --> 00:05:49.148 or cry aloud, 00:05:49.244 --> 00:05:50.844 nor will anyone hear his voice 00:05:50.892 --> 00:05:53.200 in the streets a bruised reed 00:05:53.270 --> 00:05:55.344 He will not break and the 00:05:55.382 --> 00:05:56.416 smoldering wick he 00:05:56.438 --> 00:05:57.680 will not quench. 00:05:59.260 --> 00:05:59.510 Until 00:06:00.250 --> 00:06:03.550 He brings justice to victory. 00:06:04.690 --> 00:06:07.294 And in His name the 00:06:07.332 --> 00:06:09.120 Gentiles will hope. 00:06:11.410 --> 00:06:13.722 Until he brings justice 00:06:13.866 --> 00:06:14.990 to victory. 00:06:16.690 --> 00:06:18.362 And where has that justice 00:06:18.426 --> 00:06:19.978 been brought to victory? 00:06:20.154 --> 00:06:21.934 Where have the poor and the 00:06:21.972 --> 00:06:23.806 captive and the blind and the 00:06:23.828 --> 00:06:25.558 oppressed had good news 00:06:25.644 --> 00:06:26.566 preached to them, 00:06:26.668 --> 00:06:28.086 heard the year of the 00:06:28.108 --> 00:06:29.080 Lord's favor? 00:06:30.570 --> 00:06:33.414 We sing it week in and week out, 00:06:33.452 --> 00:06:36.342 in the words of the Te Deum. We 00:06:36.396 --> 00:06:37.786 therefore pray you to 00:06:37.808 --> 00:06:38.970 help your servants 00:06:40.270 --> 00:06:43.610 whom you have redeemed with 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.770 your precious blood. 00:06:47.230 --> 00:06:48.906 Make them to be numbered with 00:06:48.928 --> 00:06:50.442 your saints in glory 00:06:50.506 --> 00:06:51.630 everlasting. 00:06:53.490 --> 00:06:55.150 By his wounds 00:06:56.530 --> 00:06:58.670 you have been healed. 00:06:59.409 --> 00:07:01.646 Justice is brought to victory in 00:07:01.668 --> 00:07:03.230 the death and resurrection 00:07:03.310 --> 00:07:04.754 of the Anointed One, 00:07:04.872 --> 00:07:07.730 and in Him alone. 00:07:09.030 --> 00:07:10.050 Blessed 00:07:11.270 --> 00:07:13.026 are those who are invited to 00:07:13.048 --> 00:07:15.830 the supper of the lamb. 00:07:18.890 --> 00:07:20.790 Yet those blank faces 00:07:22.090 --> 00:07:24.470 next to the poor and the lame, 00:07:25.770 --> 00:07:27.159 they haunt me. 00:07:28.909 --> 00:07:30.342 Another stanza. 00:07:30.406 --> 00:07:32.780 Fransman's hymn pinpoints why 00:07:33.230 --> 00:07:36.682 I am haunted man's cool and 00:07:36.736 --> 00:07:40.038 careless enmity man robed in 00:07:40.063 --> 00:07:42.586 contempt of God our deeds 00:07:42.618 --> 00:07:45.070 deny God's summoning. 00:07:46.290 --> 00:07:48.510 The summons is certainly to us, 00:07:48.659 --> 00:07:49.822 but the summons is 00:07:49.876 --> 00:07:51.520 also through us, 00:07:52.290 --> 00:07:55.250 to those crying out for justice. 00:07:56.870 --> 00:07:58.546 We just participated in the 00:07:58.568 --> 00:08:00.398 Multiethnic Symposium. 00:08:00.574 --> 00:08:03.074 We heard the invitation to all 00:08:03.111 --> 00:08:04.786 the generations of all the 00:08:04.808 --> 00:08:07.350 nations on all the continents. 00:08:07.690 --> 00:08:10.470 And yet it is easy to become 00:08:10.539 --> 00:08:12.230 self congratulatory. 00:08:12.650 --> 00:08:14.498 Look at all the generations 00:08:14.594 --> 00:08:17.080 and nations reached by us, 00:08:17.710 --> 00:08:19.686 perhaps even some of the poor 00:08:19.717 --> 00:08:22.140 and disenfranchised among them. 00:08:24.750 --> 00:08:25.740 And then, 00:08:26.350 --> 00:08:27.686 like Peter at hearing 00:08:27.717 --> 00:08:29.050 the cock crow 00:08:29.470 --> 00:08:32.110 we remember that this window 00:08:32.450 --> 00:08:34.126 can't be separated from the 00:08:34.148 --> 00:08:36.270 Window of Judgment. 00:08:37.010 --> 00:08:39.049 We sing it in the Te Deum. 00:08:39.210 --> 00:08:40.813 We believe that you will 00:08:40.852 --> 00:08:43.230 come to be our Judge. 00:08:44.450 --> 00:08:46.494 And the Judge has already said 00:08:46.532 --> 00:08:49.054 to us then the King will say 00:08:49.092 --> 00:08:51.422 to those on his right come, 00:08:51.476 --> 00:08:53.246 you who are blessed by my 00:08:53.268 --> 00:08:55.026 Father, inherit the kingdom. 00:08:55.098 --> 00:08:56.454 Prepared for you from the 00:08:56.492 --> 00:08:58.038 foundation of the world. 00:08:58.204 --> 00:08:59.410 For I was hungry 00:09:00.330 --> 00:09:01.854 and you gave me food. 00:09:02.052 --> 00:09:03.726 I was thirsty and you 00:09:03.748 --> 00:09:04.970 gave me drink. 00:09:05.130 --> 00:09:06.574 I was a stranger and 00:09:06.612 --> 00:09:07.950 you welcomed me. 00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:11.150 I was naked and you clothed me. 00:09:11.300 --> 00:09:13.742 I was sick and you visited me. 00:09:13.876 --> 00:09:16.094 I was in prison and 00:09:16.132 --> 00:09:17.440 you came to me. 00:09:18.690 --> 00:09:20.574 Then the righteous will answer, 00:09:20.772 --> 00:09:21.920 saying when? 00:09:22.770 --> 00:09:24.190 When O Lord? 00:09:24.610 --> 00:09:26.262 And and the king will answer 00:09:26.316 --> 00:09:29.080 them truly I say to you, 00:09:29.850 --> 00:09:31.446 as you did it to one of the 00:09:31.468 --> 00:09:33.510 least of these my brothers, 00:09:34.650 --> 00:09:36.120 you did it to me. 00:09:38.570 --> 00:09:40.630 O, the blank faces. 00:09:42.410 --> 00:09:44.840 O the least of these. 00:09:46.490 --> 00:09:51.200 O, how this window judges. 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.380 And yet those very blank faces 00:09:57.520 --> 00:09:58.830 invite you. 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:02.508 They invite you to see 00:10:02.594 --> 00:10:07.472 yourselves with them the first 00:10:07.526 --> 00:10:10.130 fruits of the kingdom of God. 00:10:10.819 --> 00:10:14.492 To see yourself among the poor 00:10:14.636 --> 00:10:16.748 and the lame and the racially 00:10:16.844 --> 00:10:18.240 disenfranchised, 00:10:18.680 --> 00:10:21.092 with you taking the lowest place 00:10:21.226 --> 00:10:23.670 at the table, of course. 00:10:25.400 --> 00:10:27.590 The invitation goes to you. 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:30.672 Blessed are you who are invited 00:10:30.736 --> 00:10:32.116 to the marriage feast 00:10:32.228 --> 00:10:33.556 of the Lamb. 00:10:33.748 --> 00:10:36.184 And every week that we gather at 00:10:36.222 --> 00:10:38.132 this altar and at numerous 00:10:38.196 --> 00:10:39.688 altars around us. 00:10:39.774 --> 00:10:41.204 And as we eat the bread 00:10:41.252 --> 00:10:42.512 and drink the cup, 00:10:42.596 --> 00:10:44.296 we proclaim the Lord's 00:10:44.328 --> 00:10:46.190 death until he comes. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.568 And as we proclaim his death 00:10:48.584 --> 00:10:49.640 and resurrection, 00:10:49.800 --> 00:10:52.092 so we proclaim that he, 00:10:52.146 --> 00:10:54.348 the crucified and Risen One, 00:10:54.434 --> 00:10:56.880 brings justice to victory. 00:10:57.220 --> 00:11:00.144 We proclaim justice when we 00:11:00.182 --> 00:11:01.372 gather to celebrate 00:11:01.436 --> 00:11:02.492 our Lord's feast. 00:11:02.556 --> 00:11:04.224 We proclaim to the world that 00:11:04.262 --> 00:11:06.944 God's justice is only known in 00:11:06.982 --> 00:11:09.840 Him as the body of Christ eats 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:11.824 his broken body and drinks 00:11:11.872 --> 00:11:13.328 his poured out blood. 00:11:13.424 --> 00:11:15.604 It shouts to the world that the 00:11:15.642 --> 00:11:18.723 only justice of God it knows is 00:11:18.762 --> 00:11:21.116 one where God loves the despised, 00:11:21.248 --> 00:11:22.164 the broken, 00:11:22.292 --> 00:11:23.912 and those whose lives are 00:11:23.966 --> 00:11:25.290 being poured out. 00:11:25.819 --> 00:11:28.024 Every time the church gathers to 00:11:28.062 --> 00:11:29.496 feast in the Kingdom of 00:11:29.518 --> 00:11:31.370 God that is coming. 00:11:31.740 --> 00:11:33.596 It proclaims the year of the 00:11:33.617 --> 00:11:35.336 Lord's favor in Jesus. 00:11:35.448 --> 00:11:38.204 It proclaims good news to the 00:11:38.242 --> 00:11:40.910 least in the Kingdom of God. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.476 It proclaims God's justice to 00:11:44.498 --> 00:11:46.348 the world. And that it 00:11:46.434 --> 00:11:47.432 the church 00:11:47.576 --> 00:11:51.080 you will live and act justly 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:52.670 toward the world. 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.430 Franzmann proclaimed it. 00:11:56.880 --> 00:11:59.200 A kingly lavish 00:12:00.330 --> 00:12:02.480 seeking holy love. 00:12:02.930 --> 00:12:05.754 God's hurrying feet go searching 00:12:05.882 --> 00:12:08.894 still to urge and call the bad 00:12:09.012 --> 00:12:12.366 and the good on every street to 00:12:12.388 --> 00:12:14.122 fill God's boundless 00:12:14.266 --> 00:12:15.630 banquet hall. 00:12:17.490 --> 00:12:20.606 It's our feet inviting to the 00:12:20.628 --> 00:12:22.974 wedding feast as many as we can 00:12:23.012 --> 00:12:25.554 find. Especially the poor, 00:12:25.602 --> 00:12:27.410 the crippled, the lame, 00:12:27.490 --> 00:12:28.210 the blind, 00:12:28.290 --> 00:12:30.450 the racially disenfranchised. 00:12:30.610 --> 00:12:32.630 See the blank faces. 00:12:33.050 --> 00:12:36.070 No more weeping, only joy. 00:12:36.490 --> 00:12:38.130 The window of All Nations 00:12:38.210 --> 00:12:40.486 proclaims it the foretaste of 00:12:40.508 --> 00:12:41.766 the wedding feast of 00:12:41.788 --> 00:12:43.560 the Lamb is ready. 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:45.670 Come to the feast. 00:12:46.490 --> 00:12:48.390 Come and be glad, 00:12:48.810 --> 00:12:51.200 the greatest and the least. 00:12:52.530 --> 00:12:54.750 Come to the feast. 00:12:57.730 --> 00:12:59.486 In the name of the Father and of 00:12:59.508 --> 00:13:02.106 the Son and of the Holy Spirit. 00:13:02.298 --> 00:13:02.810 Amen.