Estomihi This Sunday has this beautiful name. The following sermon of Mr. Roloff will explain why he called that. What I came only just in the sense is that we now know that the durability of rocks is very limited. There are just all just metaphors, we should also talk differently.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
"Look, we go up to Jerusalem, and it will all be completed, which is written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man." (Luk.18, 31)
Estomihi is the Latin name of this day . The word comes from belonging to Sunday 31st Psalm, which we have just prayed together. esto mihi et in domum in lapidem fortissimum munitam ut salves me. Be my strong rock and a castle that you help me, it says and that is the prayer of the one who sets out on the difficult road of suffering. Let me
is a strong rock wrote about this Sunday, as over a gate, before which we stand and we will pass through this coming Ash Wednesday. Christianity begins like every year their journey to Calvary, by the faithful the ash cross is drawn on the forehead. This cross is a memorial to the cross of the Lord but also the memory of one's own death. "Remember man that you are dust and to dust shalt be." The Passion of the time so is it only the memory of the suffering and death of Christ, but also includes our own death, and realizes the reality of our existence.
Be my strong rock and a castle that you help me!
Is not that a very obvious response? If there is a hard road ahead of me, then I will prepare for him, as I look for forces that have made me this way. This is significant not only for this area of life. have these forms of preparation and concentration in many areas - in sports, in school, in front of a transitional hospital tests before large and even small ones. The man does his body and his whole life ahead of him to a task.
We pray Christians
Be my strong rock.
We do this because we look for strengthening and support. We feel our humanity, especially is that we are looking for in such situations to the Community - to the Community of familiar people - but also to the Community of God.
But today is not just any job, testing or hard times ahead, but the Passion of Our Lord and the way in our own death.
"My time is in your hands."
Since touches us again the air of certainty that our time is running out and dies. We console ourselves with the joys of life and look with favor on the things that we might have created. Undoubtedly, however, remains that we must die and that we can not just stop at the gate.
taught in the Gospel of Jesus to us now about his impending suffering and his death. He does this not to frighten his family, but to prepare them. He wants his disciples and we understand what is in the time ahead happen. He wants the function of his passion is clear to us that it is clearly in mind that radiates from the cross of clarity in the world. Not for nothing is followed by the first announcement of the Passion in Mark, the transfiguration, which culminates in the revelation: This is my beloved Son: hear ye!
Sometimes you can experience it, that when two people were together for a lifetime and one dies, that Then soon the other wishes to die, only to be able to have fellowship with that again.
If you then find people so that it expects nothing but death, then tell us what the words of the Lord?
Dear community,
tells us what the mere fact that the word passion in not only the word suffering, but also put the word passion? We met here a suffering and loving it. The creator of the world occurs because the suffering of his creation So on much that he does not hesitate to participate. He does so two things. He has mercy on his creatures up into the deepest depths of suffering, and he gives each person the opportunity to suffering to find his life and even in their own death sympathy for the suffering of the Son of God and to his death on the cross.
The eternal promise, which is paid at the same moment lies in the fact that whoever the suffering and death of the Lord, has a share, which will also take part in his resurrection. Suddenly turns quite wonderful gateway to passion in a doorway to life.
Therefore threatened the Lord Peter, is looking for a way to avoid the ordeal and how is the unmasking of the sentence addressed to Peter Lord: not what you think of God, but what is human.
Although it is a very human and understandable reaction to Peter if he shows the suffering want to avoid. It is human and understandable, but it remains wrong.
Who the gateway to the suffering of not progressing, who his cross does not take up, who wants to save his life will also experience the wondrous transformation into a gate of life, will not follow the Lord, and he will be living . lose
Christ himself takes the trouble to prepare for his Calvary. He visits Mary and Martha, two women standing very close to him. The Evangelist Luke describes the event as follows:.
"It came to pass, as they walked, he walked into a market there was a woman named Martha, received him into her house and she had a sister. said Mary, who sat down at Jesus' feet and listened to his speech. Martha, however, made much trouble to serve him. And they came and said, Lord, do not you ask after this that my sister leaves me to serve alone? Tell her that she even attack! Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou hast much care and effort, but one is not. Mary has chosen that good part, which should not be taken away from her " Luk.10 0.38 to 42
Mary sat at Jesus' feet and heard his speech to
This is but one thing unmistakably clear:.. Christ came into the world to a service us to do. He wants to teach us, he wants to explain his actions, and he will redeem us through his suffering and his death on the cross because he thus to our suffering and our death proportion increasing and to the deepest depths of death not far from God longer exists. Our God is not some great magician who transforms the world according to our wishes and our will in each case, because then he would only be just us will. In it the Lord is different from the powerless idols that the people were forced to serve, that it serves us.
piety is determined as much by what you're doing and where you serve yourself and donate and work, and believe now, please do not, I would now say: That does not count everything. Do you pray not that I say: It does not matter that generations of people built churches, altars carved, books written, or even constructed, only the roads and paths to the churches down, or pulled out the candles, or with difficulty, the cake baked and the tables are covered.
No, dear brethren, do all of us humans is good and right when it seeks to attain salvation.
Doing the Martha by the Lord not be reduced or even convicted. He interrupts by no means in their easement.
The situation changed radically only when Martha enters and says, 'Lord, ask you do not feel that my sister leaves me to serve alone? Tell her that she was also attacked!
This is the crucial point of today's sermon text, because Martha is here defined as:
What I am doing here is more important than what she is talking there.
It may even Martha has meant quite good. What they believe because they essentially is:
not I need the Lord, but it my actions
mind now it is decided whether we are doing is justified or not. Because it will determine whether we do what is necessary, when do we let Him.
Martha had him but can make. Should not you also given be what her sister had bought - she is her sister. In every community there is such that not all the same, but everyone can do his. It did not all have the same gifts, but we all have the same Lord. Under no circumstances is a gift, just because the mean is more important than other gifts, and no surrender and no action of man can take the place of what he has done for us.
The course of the year is not only a time schedule, but the festive manner in which we celebrate our Christian life and consider our actions. The course of the year is like a dance of memory, the realization of what God has done and this Sunday Estomihi the train left for dancing for a moment. We are gearing up and ask brand new, what is really necessary in our lives. At this threshold of the door to the suffering we can consider what our life has truly reliable inventory. Let us once again from everything we know today, can that it will crumble to dust. What do we then still a strong rock?
We should today look steadily at the cross and understand: It raises a great work of love, and we can participate, by having to serve us. The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto itself, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Therefore let us consider
: What shall it profit a man if he by his action, shall gain the whole world and lose thereby damage his own soul?
Amen
And the peace of God which passes all our reason forbid, our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Amen
Thomas Roloff
