Worship Service on 1/15/2023

The 2nd Sunday after Epiphany continues the theme of making known the Savior. The broad scope of the Savior’s mission is a key emphasis on this Sunday. The well-known verse of the Old Testament Reading emphasizes this broad scope of the Savior’s work, as Yahweh announces to his servant, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth” (Is 49:6). The same lesson begins with the servant himself addressing the coastlands and “peoples from afar” (Is 49:1). In Christ, God’s Servant, and in his modern-day servants, God is glorified.