Peace Lutheran Church Sussex, Wisconsin

Congregation at Prayer: June 27, 2021

The Lord’s Prayer—The Sixth Petition

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Catechesis Notes for the Week — Psalm 119: Teth and Yod— Meditations on the Word of God—The Lord always deals with the Christian rightly. His ways are always good, no matter what He permits to come into our lives. His discipline is good. His chastening is good. His merciful and forgiving Word is good. His patience and longsuffering kindness is good. In the Teth section of Psalm 119, the psalmist declares how the Lord did good to him, even when he went astray. The Lord sent affliction that the Christian might learn the humility of faith, be delivered from arrogance and pride, learn the statutes of the Lord, and love the Word of the Lord more than all other treasures. Affliction is sent to drive us into the Word of God. In this section, word, good judgment and knowledge, commandments, statutes, precepts, and law are the references to God’s Word.
In the Yod section of Psalm 119, the psalmist confesses that the Lord has created and fashioned him and prays for understanding to learn the Lord’s commandments. Fellow believers rejoice when they see the believer who has hope in God’s Word. The Christian acquiesces to affliction laid upon him, because he knows that the Lord is faithful to him, and the Lord’s mercy and kindness will be for his comfort. In this section, commandments, word, judgments, law, and precepts are the references to Gods’ Word.

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