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Good morning and welcome to Trinity Lutheran churches Sunday morning broadcast this is Pastor Greg cavemen with you and praise God for another day of life upon this earth another day to just read Joyce and all the blessings that God be stows upon us and mostly the on are that he be stows upon us to be his children whom he has called by name and to serve in his Kingdom of Grace on this or as we look forward to the kingdom of glory and heaven want to welcome all of our listeners and if there's anybody that is new that is tuned into this broadcast this morning a special welcome to you and I just look forward to Sunday mornings and the opportunity to be together in this program and even though we for the most part do not know or see each other we're connected through Christ we have the same heavenly Father you ever thought about that is not awesome and special and one day we will be in glory and have been together well fur anyone that is a able to get out is able to come physically to worship want you to know you're always welcome to join us in worship a. Trinity Lutheran Church here in Greeley and we're located that the intersection of the 34 bad I bypass and 35th Avenue where that huge building which is our school the roof line that you can see from the bypass just south of sunset Memorial Gardens cemetery our worship services are 8 o'clock and 1030 with lively but bible studies going on beginning at 930 between services and you're always welcome and if you do come please enter douche yourself to me let you let me know that you've been listening to the broadcast I've met many people over the years in the community and otherwise. That have shared with me and it's such a joy for me to know that and to get introduced to people who who faithfully listen we praise God for His Word and today let us not forget all of the victims of the various hurricanes Harvey enter a man now Marie My guess the devastation that has been the result of those and then we think of the earthquake in Mexico the fires in the northwest sector of our nation so many people's lives being disrupted by natural disasters and and this is only in our realm of the world let us not forget those in other parts of the world who who suffer even at a much greater level and let us turn to God in prayer in light of that oh Lord we gather in your precious name in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit on man and their Heavenly Father we take comfort and rest in the security of the truth that you reign that Lord you reign over the universe you are. Our Creator and you are the one who sustains our lives and Lord God we hold up to you as we've mentioned especially those who are victims who suffer from the consequences of the various natural disasters that have taken place Lord you know each and every family who has lost loved ones in these events you know those who have lost all of their personal belongings those who are homeless wondering where the next meal may come from Lord comfort all these your precious people and for those that don't know you perhaps through these disasters they will come to know you and Lord for those who do trust and believe those who are your church we pray that they will be a bright light in the darkness of of the area where they currently live in the midst of these disaster zones and that they can bring the good news they can bring hope they can announce to all those affected that you raining and that there is there are no limits in what you are able and willing to do Lord you are the provider of all things we thank you Lord for the beautiful area that we are blast to live in here in in Colorado and blessed to live in this great nation in light of where other places where we could have been born in living Lord May we never forget how blessed we truly are and so Lord we come to worship you open our hearts and minds to your truth to your word and Lord his family were honored and privileged to know the prayer you of Tata says as we now pray to get out there which you pray with me our Father who art in heaven hallowed be thy. I name by kingdom come thy will be done On earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for the line is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever amen. Well as we think about the trials that we face upon this are certainly the Apostle Paul is one who went through many trials during his ministry as God called him to to be an apostle and perhaps the greatest missionary that has walked on the face of the earth but I'd like us to read from Philip Ian's the smore Ning and Paul probably imprisoned in Rome at this time but he writes this letter to the church at Philip I and of course it's a circular letter God's word is timeless and it's a letter to you and me this morning and so I would like these to read these words from selected verses of the Libyans chapter one I want you to know brothers that what has happened to me has really served to advance the gospel so that it has become No one throughout the whole Imperial Guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ and most of the brothers having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment are much more bold to speak the word without fear for I know that through your prayers in the help of the spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance as it is my eager expectation and hope I will not be at all ashamed but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body whether by life or by death for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain if I am to live in the flesh that means fruitful labor for me yet which I choose. I cannot tell I am hard pressed between the 2 My desire is to depart and be with Christ for that is far better but to remain in the flash is more necessary on your account convinced of this I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ because of my coming to you again only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ so that whether I come and see you or him absent I may hear of you that are you that you are standing firm in one spirit with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel and not frightened in anything by your opponents this is a clear sign to them of their destruction but of your salvation and that from God For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but awesome suffer for His sake engaged in the same conflict that you saw I had and now hear that I still have and here in this portion of this reading from Paul's letter to the Flip eons did you know that there is another prediction that the world is going to end where there's a lot of those isn't there yes it's going to happen on September 23rd. Oh wait a minute that was yesterday Come to think about it and we're still here another false prophecy and by the way if anyone predicts the day that the world is going to end you know instantly it's a false prophecy because our Lord Jesus Christ is said to us not even the Son of man knows the day or the hour but let's say we knew the world would end next Saturday how would you live let me see the next 5 and a half days left in your life on this are kind of an interesting thought isn't it and it's interesting in our reading this morning that Paul is debating whether he is going to live or die he is convinced the Lord still has work for him to do and in this Paul really reveals to us not only his calling but our calling and I'd like to hold the theme up to you this morning our greatest calling. Now there's a lot of callings that we can receive in the world but this calling is far above the calling of the world and boy when you think about it we can be called or directed in a lot of different directions and most of them not good if we get in compass in and in the thinking of the world because what really is the calling in life among the unbelieving on this earth well for most it's well that and success generally is equally weighted with well and so most parents in our very materialistic world their focus in energy is to make more money they model this for their kids and then when their kids leave the home they're telling their kids you know that this is what success is you need to go out and you need to make megabucks in money and try to get ahead of someone else out there to get at the top of your game you know used to be the phrase to keep up with the Joneses and that was the drive in the motivation and in our capitalistic system we got to be very careful that that doesn't become the focus and the drive of our lives now there's nothing wrong with succeeding but it's how we go about it and where our heart is in the process and some believe that wealth and success in terms of wealth is you know that's the fulfillment of life and you're going to find a level at some point where you're going to really feel fulfilled in your life seeking it. And then another is power and control and and it's just part of our sinful nature to want to be in a position of power and with that control you know they did an experiment a number of years ago I watched this documentary on t.v. And they just pulled people off the street now see them if they would give a couple hours of their time to participate in an experiment and there was a psychology experiment and so they had half of the group of people that were the power and control people and the other half of the group they had to submit to that power and control and so when they volunteered they didn't know which which group they would be in but shortly after the experiment began it was evident who the power and control group was and who the other group was and so the ones running the experiment just stood back to watch what would happen do you know that they had to stop the experiment way short of the time that they anticipated using because it instantly got so out of control the power and control people were becoming abusive and overbearing to the other group to the extent that lives were being threat and now these were people that knew nothing about one another they were just pulled off the street and asked to be a part of this experiment. But it was so revealing of that horrible sinful nature that's a part of every one of us and apart from faith what that can do and in the world apart from God People that are outside of the faith for many it's all about power and control and it's very real and revealing if you're out on the roadways you see the road rage in the it's very evident those that feel they have to be in control on the highway and they're they will even risk lives in order to exert their power and control it's nothing more than what kids grow up with the end being bullied or other kids bowling them. It's the way of the world it's a calling if you will and then there's the calling for pleasure in and certainly in the wealth in and in the freedoms that we have in in this nation and there's certainly that calling for pleasure entertainment of every form of vailable to us and and now with all the new technology right down to the smartphones that we have in our hands we have the world's intertainment available to us in our hands and so it's very easy to be consumed in that calling of pleasure and entertainment and where really directs a lot of people and where we're at today is a very narcissistic type of philosophy meaning it's all about me you know I'm living this life for me so if I have 5 and a half days left on this or I'm going to get all the gusto out of life that I can get for me but you know what's interesting in this is it's never enough there's clear testimony that none of these callings of the unbelieving world bring contentment or fulfillment in fact the more money people get if they're running after money for their sense of success or fulfillment the more they need because there's always somebody that has a bigger house a nicer car a seemingly better life and so there's never fulfillment there's never can tell it. And we only have so many years upon this earth and then we know we're going to die and death is the thing to be dreaded the most because it's going to end our party on this earth it's going to destroy our philosophy of what fulfillment in life is all about and death and all the fine and death bring short the goals of success now people in this realm generally don't even think about or acknowledge God's judgment I can imagine living eternity in hell but but that is the judgment for all who reject Christ who do not believe so in light of this thinking and pattern of life. God comes to his church God comes to you and me his precious people all through the Apostle Paul and says Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ now all the things of the world are pushed aside and the gospel becomes the centerpiece of the life of a child of God That's what God desires for you and me that all this other stuff is pushed way over to the side of the table in our lives and the Gospel is friend and San are now this is something by the way that we would never be able to do by our own power and strength but it all has to do with guide calling us 1st calling us through the Gospel of Jesus Christ into this marvelous faith into this new life and so through Jesus through the sacrifice that he made on the cross dying for our sins through Jesus conquering death through Jesus rising victoriously from the grave we are offered this wonderful new life in faith and he alone is the source of that life Jesus says I am the Way the Truth and the Life no one comes to the Father except through me so it's only through Jesus he is the source because he is the one that has won the victory and he offers this life to the world for God so loved the world God desires we here in Tim a theory that all people be saved Jesus die. Side for every one at the exclusion of no one but God does not force anyone to believe or trust in him but through cry you and I as Christians as God's precious people all we have been given new life and in that new life our sin has been forgiven this is all God's work we have contributed nothing but through Christ all of our sin has been forgiven and we're blessed to live in this time of God's grace you know the prophet Isaiah in Chapter 55 or 6 cries out Seek the Lord while He may be found call upon him while he is near We live in the time of grace it is not too late Jesus has not returned to judge the world yet life continues on. And for us as God's people who have this new life we have been given great responsibility and that is to live a life that is centered in the Gospel as we hear from Philip Ians one verse 27 Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ and that means in our conversation in our business transactions in the way that we dress in the style of living that we practice in the forms of entertainment that we embrace and so on the personal level it's the gospel it is our life it transforms in every aspect of our lives and as we grow in our own personal faith journey we are called then to be an encouragement to one another in the body of Christ and so we are not on this faith journey isolated and alone but it's with other Christians and we're here and did you hear it in this reading we are here to support in one another's progress and joy in the faith that is our calling to encourage one another in the faith and we do that by focusing on the Gospel in our own life faith journey and that alone by practices and encouragement in a modeling for others especially our family but that we encourage others to do the same and then I love this standing firm in one spirit with one mind striving side. I buy side for the faith of the Gospel when we gather together as we do every Sunday on this radio broadcast that's what I feel as I share God's word with you is that we are standing firm in one spirit with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel and one day our life will come to an end on this earth but we need not fear that or dread that but like Paul to die is gain we look forward to that when our Lord receives us home because we will be out of the burden of our suffering on this earth and we will now live in the fulfillment of God's promises to us in glory what a future God has prepared for us but may in the meantime may we be about this highest calling to walk in the faith with the gospel as the center of our lives and to encourage and lead others to do the same May God bless you and me in this faith journey May the blessings of God the Father Son and Holy Spirit be with you this day and always God bless you amen. 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What people think about something that's appalling what that something actually is that the truth pastor can Klaus helps us to understand that important difference we're surrounded by supposedly wise men who encourage us to disregard seeing guilt in their consequences those are the latest opinions the truth in the most recent public opinion polls are not the same no matter what the latest poll may say encourage you to follow this truth believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved Stay with us for Pastor close his message. Right now I'd like to tell you about some changes that are coming to the Lutheran our for the past 6 and a half years Dr Gregory self has blessed us with his voice and message as speaker of the Lutheran Our his calling to serve as a minister of the church is not c