Lent 2025 Midweek 1 Sermon: The Hand Of Our LORD Saves Us

Lent Midweek 1 Divine Service
12 March 2025 at 3:30PM

Old Testament: Job 9: 1-12
Epistle: Ephesians 2: 1 - 10
Gospel: Matthew 14: 22 - 33

 PREPARATION 
“AS WE GATHER”
The God who is Creator of all came to save us from sin and death in the incarnate Son of Mary, Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God. He is God. He first revealed Himself to Moses with the holy name “I AM,” saying, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14). When Jesus came to His disciples walking on the crashing waves of the sea of Galilee, He said, “Take heart; it is I. Do not be afraid” (Matthew 14:27). “It is I” is the same term for the divine name, “I AM.” As He reached out His hand and grabbed the fearful, doubting, sinking Simon Peter, so does His compassionate hand save you in times of despair and helplessness. His greatest deliverance was when He allowed His hands to be nailed to a cross for your sins. As we are helpless like drowning Peter, our repentant prayer this day is in the words of the hymn, “Nothing in my hand I bring; simply to Thy cross I cling” (LSB 761:3).