Lectio Concordia

Waiting for Salvation – Saturday

Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent

Scripture Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–5:2

Series: Lectio Concordia

November 30, 2024 By Rev. Mark Ryman

• Online jigsaw puzzle of today's reading • Index

• Collect: Knowing that you alone, O God, are my rock and salvation, may I be content to wait in hope for the consummation of salvation through Jesus Christ who lives with you and the Holy Spirit, one God now and forever. Amen.

• Psalm 62:1–12

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13–5:2

• “The Church’s One Foundation”

The church’s one foundation
is Jesus Christ, her Lord;
she is His new creation,
by water and the word.
From heav’n He came and sought her
to be His holy bride;
with His own blood He bought her,
and for her life He died.

Elect from every nation,
yet one o’er all the earth,
her charter of salvation:
one Lord, one faith, one birth.
One holy name she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope she presses,
with every grace endued.

Though with a scornful wonder,
men see her sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed,
yet saints their watch are keeping,
their cry goes up, “How long?”
and soon the night of weeping
shall be the morn of song!

The church shall never perish!
Her dear Lord to defend,
to guide, sustain, and cherish,
is with her to the end;
though there be those that hate her,
and false sons in her pale,
against the foe or traitor
she ever shall prevail.

‘Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits the consummation
of peace forevermore;
till with the vision glorious
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great church victorious
shall be the church at rest.

Yet she on earth hath union
with God the Three in One,
and mystic sweet communion
with those whose rest is won;
O happy ones and holy!
Lord give us grace that we,
like them, the meek and lowly,
on high may dwell with Thee.

• Benediction: May the Holy Spirit remind you of the Father’s steadfast love throughout the day so that you are confident of Christ’s return at the end of the age. Amen.

• Memory Verse Aid: BTYKTT, TTHHC FYTWFS. FSINTUN TWWFB. (Romans 13:11)