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FROM LUTHERS PRAYERS:

O God and Father, give us graciously what belongs to the body andits life. O Son of God, free us from sin and mercifully grant us

your spirit. O God the Holy Spirit, heal, comfort, and make usstrong against the devil, and finally give us the victory and the

resurrection from the dead. Amen.

FROM LUTHERS SMALL CATECHISM:

The Lords Prayer:

And deliver us from evil.

What is this?

We ask in this prayer, as in a summary, that our Father in

heaven may deliver us from all kinds of evil-affecting body orsoul, property or reputation-and at last, when our final hour comes,

may grant us a blessed end and take us by grace from this valley of

tears to himself in heaven.

SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER

PENTECOST

O God, you see how busy we are with many things. Turn us

to listen to your teachings, and lead us to choose the one

thing which will not be taken from us, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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GOSPEL: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all thatthey had done and taught. 31 He said to them, Come away to a

deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while. For many werecoming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32 And they

went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. 33 Now

many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there

on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. 34 As he wentashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them,because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to

teach them many things.53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at

Gennesaret and moored the boat. 54 When they got out of the boat,

people at once recognized him, 55 and rushed about the wholeregion and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard

he was. 56 And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms,they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they

might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched itwere healed.

Second Reading: Ephesians 2:11-22

Remember that one time you Gentiles by birth, called theuncircumcision by those who are called the circumcision

a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens

from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants

of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.13

Butnow in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought

near by the blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, in his flesh hehas made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing

wall, that is, the hostility between us. 15 He has abolished the lawwith its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in

himself one new humanity in the place of two, thus making peace,16 and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through thecross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 17 So he came

and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to thosewho were near; 18 for through him both of us have access on one

Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and

aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the

household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostlesand prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.21 In him the whole structure is joined together and grows intoa holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built

together spiritually into a dwelling place for God.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ?

That they shall be one.John xvii. 21.

For everyone who believes through the words of the Apostles,

the promise is given for Christs sake and by the power of thisprayer, that he shall be one body and one loaf with all

Christians; that what happens to him as a member for good orill, shall happen to the whole body for good or ill, and not

only one or two saints, but all the prophets, martyrs, apostles,all Christians, both on earth and with God in Heaven, shall

suffer and conquer with him, shall fight for him, help, protect,

and save him, and shall undertake for him such a graciousexchange that they will all bear his sufferings, want, and

afflictions and he partake of all their blessings, comfort, andjoy.

How could a man wish for anything more blessed than

to come into this fellowship or brotherhood and be mademember of this body, which is called Christendom? For who

can harm or injure a man who has this confidence, who knowsthat heaven and earth, and all the angels and the saints will cry

to God when the smallest suffering befalls him? If a sin

attacks him to frighten, bite, and oppress his conscience,threatening him with the devil, death, and hell, god speaks

with the great company of heaven: Sin, leave him to Meunmolested! Hell, leave him endeavored; Death, leave him

unslain; But this cannot be done without faith, because to theeyes of the world and of reason the opposite appears to

happen.

Sermon on John xvi-xx, 1528. W.A. 28. 182.

Taken from the book: Day by Day We Magnify Thee

by Martin Luther Page 353