Sermons on Matthew (Page 2)
Trinity 18 – 2025
JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO THE LAW Prayer: Dear Lord, we know that Your Law is good; but since the Fall its holiness condemns us all, it dooms us for our sin to die, and has no power to justify. By Your Holy Spirit, help us to so use the Law that to Jesus we for refuge flee, who from the curse has set us free, and humbly worship at Your throne, saved by Your grace through faith alone. Amen!…
St. Michael and All Angels-2025
JESUS SAYS HIS LITTLE ONES HAVE ANGELS Prayer: We thank You, our heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept us from all harm and danger. Into Your hands we commend ourselves, our loved ones and all your little ones, our bodies and souls and all things; let Your holy angels be with us, that the wicked foe may have no power over us. Amen. Sermon Text, St. Matthew 18:1-7, 10 (v. 10). “Take heed…
St. Matthew’s Day, Apostle and Evangelist – 2025
MATTHEW’S GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord God: We thank You today that You not only changed the life of Matthew, from being a tax collector and an outcast sinner to being Your disciple and apostle, but also You used him to write the first gospel. We thank You for the Gospel, by which we learn to know You, our Lord Jesus, and through which Your Word powerfully creates and preserves in us true saving faith. By Your Word, give us faith…
Trinity 6 – 2025
THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL Prayer: O God, enlighten me that I may rightly understand Your Word. From Your Law let me learn to know my boundless spiritual ruin. But from Your Gospel let me learn to know Your grace, which is in Christ Jesus, my Savior, which saves me from my utter ruin and gives me eternal salvation. O merciful Lord, let me abide in true faith in Your Gospel, the secure place of refuge against every curse. Amen.…
Trinity 2 – 2025
HE CHURCH’S ONE FOUNDATION IS NOT PETER, OR PAUL, BUT THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord Jesus: Help us to hear Your promise that Your Church will never perish, believe it, and remain in Your Church by Your grace. Amen. St. Matthew 16:18-19. “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades [hell] shall not prevail against it. And I will give you…
Lent 4 – 2025
SIMULTANEOUSLY RESTLESS AND AT REST The Text, St. John 6:1-15 (v. 14-15). Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Therefore when Jesus perceived that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He departed again to the mountain by Himself alone. Lord, this is Your Word and these are Your words. Sanctify us by the truth.…
Midweek Lent 3 – 2025
“HAIL, KING OF THE JEWS!” Sermon Text: St. Matthew 27:20-26. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole garrison around Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” Then they spat on…
Lent 1 – Midweek – 2025
“I HAVE SINNED BY BETRAYING INNOCENT BLOOD” Sermon Text: St. Matthew 27:1-5. When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death. And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, “I have sinned…
Lent 1 – Invocavit- 2025
On faith and hope in the midst of temptations and struggles: But then the devil attacks this faith. This is the next wave of temptation: that he accuses you, and you listen, you get beaten down in your conscience. What has to happen is that faith – in which you learn what to believe – has to become hope, it has to influence your will, so that you *want* to walk in God’s ways, so that you *want* to resist…
Pre-Lent 1 – 2025
DOES “GRACE ALONE” MEAN NO WORKING AT ANYTHING? Prayer: Lord God, heavenly Father, through Your holy Word You have called us into Your vineyard: We beseech You, send Your Holy Spirit into our hearts, that we may labor faithfully in Your vineyard and put our whole and only trust in Your grace, which You have bestowed upon us abundantly through Your Son Jesus Christ, that we might obtain eternal salvation through Him. Amen. Sermon Text: Matthew 20:1-16 (v. 10-12). But…