Acts 3:25 You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, “And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
This is an excerpt from a sermon delivered by Peter just a little while after the first Easter, long ago. He was speaking to a Jewish audience and trying to help them understand who Jesus was and what it had to do with their faith and with God's faithfulness to the promises God had made to the Jewish people. So he told them they were descendants of prophets, and descendants of the covenant God gave to Abraham. He told them that they were the descendants God meant when God said "In your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
I know that not many of you are Jewish. Neither am I. But we've been joined to Israel through our baptism into Jesus. So in a sense, these words are meant for us as well. So, people of God... people called All Saints... YOU are the descendants of the prophets. YOU are the descendants of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors. And in YOU, people of God called All Saints, in YOU, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
Visit http://www.allsaintspalatine.org for news and updates. Worship with us Sunday morning at 8:30 and 11. This Sunday afternoon, our Director of Music, Doug Williams, will be providing an organ recital at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (1218 W Addison) in Chicago at 3 pm. Holy Trinity is near Wrigley Field but there's no Cubs game, and street parking is available, especially on Addison.
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