Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given on the third Sunday of Lent. Given by our reader priest in charge Nick Mwandia on the 20/3/22 entitled ‘God’s Patience and Mercy’ Download Mp3 HERE! Sermon starts at 3:42 Isaiah … Continue reading →
Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given on the third Sunday of Lent. Given by our reader priest in charge Nick Mwandia on the 20/3/22 entitled ‘God’s Patience and Mercy’
Download Mp3 HERE!
Sermon starts at 3:42
Isaiah 55 v 1-9
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat! Come; buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
2 Why
spend money on what is not bread, and your labour on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting
covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a
witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will
summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to
you, because of the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you
with splendour.”
6 Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked
forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the Lord, and
he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Luke 13 v 1-9
1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.
2 Jesus answered, “Do you think
that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they
suffered this way?
3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.
4 Or
those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they
were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
5 I tell you, no! But unless
you repent, you too will all perish.”
6 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he
went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.
7 So he said to the man who took care
of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree
and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’
8 “‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and
fertilize it.
9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’”