But I have to confess something to you. Intro. So Wartburg in Texas was born. Fences don’t make good neighbors! Psalms 23:1 “The Lord is my shepherd” Psalms 23:4 “I will fear no evil” Psalms 46:10 “ Be still, and know that I am God ” Psalms 118:24 “This is the day that the Lord has made” Proverbs 3:5 “Trust in the Lord” Proverbs 3:6 “In all thy ways acknowledge him” Proverbs 4:23 “Guard your heart” Proverbs 22:6 “Train up … In it, we treat “this” as though it referred to today, that God has made this day as He makes every day special. By the time of Jesus, the Psalms had long been assembled into the form we have today. You sound like you do, but I want to convince you of it by recapping some of the events of the past 35 years or so that LSPS has been a part of this community. 24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. A Sermon for Easter Day. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD.” This of course is a quote from Psalm 118. And even when the blessing has been delayed, as it has been for some of you, we have learned not to despair because as you have confessed to me this morning:  “The Lord is Good and his steadfast Love endures forever!”   Say it with me! There are a few clues which can give us some idea. Hezekiah was basically called a “fool” for trusting that Yahweh, the God of Israel would save him. This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. This is the day, This is the day that the Lord hath made. Privacy Policy  |   The cross is right outside waiting for you to go and tell the story so that others might know something of what we have experienced in this place. Psalm 119. From the Speculum Ecclesiae of Honorius Augustodunensis (early 12th cen.). A bishop and a few friends got together and convinced someone to donate $50.000.00 for this mission start and they convinced Wartburg Seminary to do it. And Jesus was on the road of sorrows that would lead Him to the cross on the next day. We have walked together, prayed together, worshipped together; struggled together, and yet, we have come back to this table, week after week to eat “juntos,” together, as a family. Here is the King who would deliver them, the Son of David. Make your calling an election sure as the Bible admonishes us. So now we can hear Jesus cry out the first line of the thanksgiving to which we can reply “for the mercy of the LORD endures forever!”. Now I want all of you to turn to Psalm 100 and I want us to say it together and say it like you mean it, with a loud voice and your lungs full of joyful air! Let us rejoice and be glad in it!”  Now repeat after me and say it like you mean it:   “This is the day the Lord has made…. The trajectory went downhill from there for the most past. This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!”   By God,  I’ll make joyful Christians out of you yet!! The Bible also says that whosoever calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved. Confession is good for the soul some crazy monk said once! I explained to him that we learned to speak and sing and pray and even dance in Spanish because of the context of our mission. We love to hear the children in the Churches wave their palm branches in our churches on Palm Sunday singing “Hosanna! There is a mingling of three understandings. So let’s review what else we’ve learned by being a little off – center in this place over the years. May the LORD grant you repentance unto life. (Ps 117[118].24) Dear friends, the Lord has made all days in his majesty, but this one he chose in his loving kindness before all of them, as a joy for both angels and humans. We would assume that His people were the Jewish people, so why does Jesus hurl “the stone the builders rejected is become the chief cornerstone” against them and not Rome? Let us rejoice and be glad in it!” If we remember that the Psalm is about the deliverance of the king and his people. Wow. Today is the day for your success. But we also know as we sing in anticipation of our final ascent to the heavenly Jerusalem, we know that one day we will sing it without limitations in God’s Kingdom. The city was surrounded by Sennacherib, the Assyrian army, and their client armies. It’s starts with “This is the day the Lord has made.” Who made it? It wasn’t Hezekiah’s doing, but the LORD’s. Verse 24. Worthy Daily Devotional » Humility » Rejoice, this is the day that the Lord has made! Her ministry is one of restoring health and dignity to a people and we couldn’t help but catch her vision for what is possible when faith and Spirit meet. Introduction: When we see a verse like this in the Bible, we want to ask ourselves, “Why did the Psalmist write it? Let me explain. Mark 14;29 says that Jesus and the disciples sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives. September 14, 2020. Power Point Show MP3 audio. Yes, I have learned to love this chapel and the people who worship here! 21 I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation. God is! . We can sing “This is the day that the LORD has made both forward and backward. One must believe in their heard that God raised Jesus from the dead as well as confess that Jesus is LORD. It was not much of a “house” by our standards, but it was joyful and full of hospitality. I did my own wailing here last year near the wailing wall when we lamented the suspension of the M.Div. For the completed manuscript, click here.. Scripture: Psalm 118:24: This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. But so was Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck … so there! God’s select Lamb who would take away the sin of the world was arriving. This sounds more like a lament that I have just written. The Day of the LORD had come. We continue to learn together that God can take death and turn it into life and God can sustain us through the power of the Spirit working faith in us so that we might say with the psalmist:  ” The Lord is God, It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.”   Ok, so sheep are not that smart, but God is patient with us, even when we are tempted to despair when prayers are not answered as institutionally quickly as we would like. Who owns the day? A sermon based on Psalm 118 Sunday, November 11, 2012 Psalm 118 was Luther's favorite Psalm. And as pilgrims coming from the feast would find it inconvenient to bring one, they would come early to purchase one at the Temple market which had already been certified by the priests. USB Handbook on the Book of Psalms - This is the day which the Lord has made is the literal form of the Hebrew; the meaning is well represented by NEB, “This is the day on which the Lord has acted” (also SPCL). We learned from her community of faith that it takes community to make it in this life; that we cannot make it on our own, and that accepting that truth can be the most liberating good news to a people who find value in relating to others in community. Benson Commentary Psalm 118:24-25. The pilgrims would have sung this anyway, but know the Psalm had come alive to them. “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psa. We know that the Lord heard and sent Isaiah with the news that the Lord was going to deliver them, and He did. This is the day which the LORD hath made. This is also the title of our closing song this morning, which is also based on verse 24. You have to admit folks, the chapel is a little skewed, shall we say? He had been delivered from far greater a danger than Hezekiah could ever have imagined. . You bet! The poet Robert Frost once wrote with irony that “good fences make good neighbors.” What he meant by that was exactly the opposite! Problems or no problems today is day that the lord has made, rejoice and be glad in it. We have been gathered here from the four corners of the world with folks coming here from Slovakia, Africa, Pakistan, the Philippines, Mexico, the British Isles and I’m sure other places as well as we became one people, worshipping and learning together. “This is the day the Lord has made. No kings ruled between Zedekiah at the time of the exile and a temporary restoration in 160BC by the Maccabees. At least on the part of the Jewish leaders were concerned, this was saying that they were “not His people” but people of the surrounding nations. Dave Wood This Is The Day Lord Has Made Jesus was coming! For the wrath of God was about to be poured out on God’s Lamb. The sun would refuse to shine as darkness came over the land at high noon. The first professor of LSPS, Hilmer Krause, accepted a call to serve as a homiletics professor here at SSW and behold LSPS found a home here on this campus, and good neighbors became friends and mission partners became visionaries as we together fulfilled the call to common mission even before the wider church thought about it! Here’s a simple outline of Psalm 118 for preaching, teaching, or personal study purposes. So we do live out Jesus’s sufferings in a way when we are rejected by others for our faith. You might be feeling unloved, unrecognized, unimportant, unworthy, and all the various kinds of ‘UN……’. I have every reason to believe that Psalm 118 would have been sung as the last of the praise songs. When I first came here to interview with the former director, Augie Wenzell, back in the summer of 1988, I didn’t think I was going to like it here! The believer in Jesus never needs to fear the Day of the LORD because for us it has already come and passed. Jesus quotes another part of the Psalm in Matthew 21:45-6 and applies it to himself. This is the Day the Lord Has Made! 23 This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. The new criteria to be one of God’s chosen people is not heredity but faith. We are warned in the prophet Amos that this was to be a day of darkness and not light. Tags: Al Rodriguez, Christian formation, LSPS, Psalm 100, Sermons, SSW history, thanksgiving, ©2008- He noticed the chapel space was not exactly linear; it’s a little bit off-center, and it has this weird altar space that curves around against that wall that now Eliseo has made weirder by turning the altar around. Do not assume that you are in. Text: Nehemiah 8:11-12 10 Nehemiah said, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep…go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord, and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.. Oh, how good the Lord has been to us, how merciful, how gracious, how loving that God has made us for Godself and has spoken to us in the language of our hearts! The Dead Sea Scrolls show familiarity to the Psalm which means that it was not the latter time as well. And here at LSPS and SSW we agree with him! Psalm 118:24. This will be as Amos says a day of darkness and not light The Sons of Aaron and the Levites and the Pharisees of Jesus’ day would have thought themselves automatically included in the coming Kingdom. The Lord! Psalm 118 has no title which tells us who wrote the psalm like many of the others. Would the LORD deliver Israel from Rome the way He did from Sennacherib with a mighty and overt work of power? And Jesus was on the road of sorrows that would lead Him to the cross on the next day. In the Ancient Near East, the King represented all of his people. A few years later, another idea was born. The Psalmist goes on to refer to this day that the Lord has made, and many agree that this is a direct reference to Christ, especially within the framework of the verses given. “This is the day the Lord has made. The Bible tells us that the spokesman of the Assyrians who spoke Hebrew taunted Hezekiah and the troops protecting the city. We know it because God crossed the border for you, the one that separated us from God, and not even the death of dream, not even the death of a man called Jesus, Jesucristo, could separate us from this love. Josiah would later do the opposite and fail. “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” Ps. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. 24 This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Yes he was. The people waved palm branches thinking him to be the promised King. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 ESV (p. 425) This Psalm is filled with instruction and theology. The Day of the LORD had come. “This is the day which the Lord has made, Let us rejoice and be glad in it!” Psalms 113-118 comprise a wonderful 6 psalm praise to God called the “Egyptian Hallel” (Hallel meaning praise in the Hebrew.) Jeremiah and Isaiah seem to allude to the themes of the Psalm. Many of you wept with us, and we wept with you when 14 Episcopal staff members were let go last December in order to keep the seminary sustainable; we prayed with them and for them and through it all we learned that God is faithful even in the darkest moments of our lives. They learned why folks become economic migrants much like our ancestors Abraham and Sarah. For since the king was a godly king, then my guess is that it was written by or for King Hezekiah after the Lord had destroyed the Assyrian army before the gates of Jerusalem. Jesus would sweat great drops of blood under the full moon in the garden. When I think of the St. John’s Passion of Johann Sebastian Bach and its haunting beauty comes the answer to this—als vie ein Lamm (as a Lamb). The day of wrath is past and joy will come in an eternal morning. Psalms 118:24 Context. We learned from her friend, Doctora Mendoza of Juárez, Mexico that when the Spirit sends you on a mission, nothing can stop the missioner, not even the threat of death by unseen forces because the Spirit gives courage and faith. " This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. " You have almost convinced me that you mean it so I’m going to give you a little more time to think about it and I’m going to offer some reflections to take you just over the top of your confession! The proof awaits you at this table waiting to be set to feed you as familia. 118:24. So who wrote it, when, and for what occasion cannot be determined. “This is the day the Lord has made. The Segment . Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” The preacher declares, “THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE.” And the congregation replies, “Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Ps.118:24). Who is in control? In 1974 LSPS had only one or two students, that was it. The Day of the LORD, that is the Day of Wrath and Vengeance of our God, still lies ahead of those who do not believe on Jesus Christ. Sorry! I do not dissent to this as we should always see each day as a gift of God to be thankful for. . 2020 Seminary of the Southwest. We have heard here that we are God’s very own, the beloved community, and so as I preach what may or may not be my last sermon here, let me leave you with this thought:   God is in love with you! Lately the Lord has been showing me the extreme value of simply living in the DAY He has … You have known and tasted this goodness here under this tent in the wilderness, while singing songs of praise in two languages! Besides the coming to the Temple at the head of a thankful procession, they would bring sacrifices of thanksgiving which they would bind with chords to the altar. Jesus is taking the part of the king, but who are the people? Jesus says that we have only this one day, and we must not be anxious for the day tomorrow. However, I am not saying that it is the correct situation. LSPS and SSW and all those who visit with us today. All rights reserved. The day of David's enthronement was the beginning of better times for Israel; and in a far higher sense the day of our Lord's resurrection is a new day of God's own making, for it is the dawn of a blessed dispensation. This is the day which the Lord hath made - As if it were a new day, made for this very occasion; a day which the writer of the psalm did not expect to see, and which seemed therefore to have been created out of the ordinary course, and added to the other days. The King is alive! Psalms 113-18 were collected into a group of praise songs called the “Hallel” or praise songs used for the annual pilgrimage to the Temple at Passover. Jesus has a nasty surprise. And He made the day Seth was born to replace him. Our learning has not been limited to the academic or theological. This Is The Day That The Lord Has Made This is the day, this is the… First of all, the Psalm seems to require the existence of a Temple which would rule out the time of the Babylonian exile. That’s what Pastor Kerry Nelson remarked last Tuesday when he was here. We still live in the transition of the current age and the age to come. We have also learned to forgive each other when our relating fell short because of our human frailties. Because we are in Christ, we have already suffered death in Him and Resurrection in Him. The pitiful Hezekiah who was so mocked and rejected in the nations was not established in their eyes. We have learned that folks from different parts of the world can come together and become “familia“, family of faith and a community of love and support for each other. We learned to tear them down for the sake of a grander vision of serving God in the world! This has been a place where we have forged friendships, where we have seen students come and go over the years. The lamb for the family at Passover had to be kept up beforehand. And who can deny not feeling the power of the Spirit moving among us – gathering us, sending us, equipping us to share God’s love in the world. Zechariah 3:9 For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day… I told him that the Cross, our primary symbol of faith, was located outside the building to remind us of the mission of the church to serve Christ in the world. Psalm 117. We are warned in the prophet Amos that this was to be a day of darkness and not light. How sweet our time has been as we have learned to live together under a tent in the wilderness, in this chapel where we have tasted the abundant life. But at any rate, the deliverance in the days of Hezekiah was short lived. And so they did, and the vision flourished, and folks from all over Texas starting contributing funds to make it happen. Scripture Reading: Psalm 118:21-26 This is the Day the Lord has Made . We have learned from so many in this place over the years as we have shared and experienced life together, through both good and difficult times. We walk funny because we walk to the beat of a different drummer. Exile followed and then a return of the remnant, but even the upticks on the health chart were small and short in duration. The Jews call the Sabbath “the queen of days.” Have there been tears shed in this place? This is the day that the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad in it! And he was, but He came as a Lamb. I want to address this to whoever may be hearing or reading this sermon. Let us see. He also made the day Cain killed him. The Lord’s Day . Understanding this scenario, we hear the shout of triumph and thanksgiving in this psalm. After all, he hadn’t saved Israel or all the cities of Judah. Also, the alternation of “I” and “We” seems to indicate that it was written during the time that kings ruled over Israel. I first came here as a student in 1988 convinced that I would not like this place, and here I am 22 years later as a professor and director, little knowing then that I would come to love this place and the people who make it what it is. TEV has “the day of the Lord’s victory,” since the whole psalm celebrates Yahweh’s victory over the enemies of Israel. 1st day of the week . ~ Psalm 118:24 The Psalmist in Psalm 118 is writing at a time in their life where they are facing challenging situations. . Donors starting contributing to the vision and the dream that Texas could be a place where Lutheran students could study theology and become pastors became a reality. How’s that for keeping the church weird and off-center? He would be beaten with many stripes and fastened to the horns of a cross as the sacrifice for sin. This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” 2. It was 1971. Hezekiah had not put his trust in princes but in the LORD. So the night is turned into day and lament into shouts of joyous thanks. program, but that did not last for long because the community was there to support us. Topical Sermons . But we must remember that on the third day, Jesus was raised alive. I told him that this wall represented the “wailing wall” of Jerusalem, and the chapel was supposed to represent a tent in the wilderness; in fact, those glass doors can slide open just to prove the point. 1. Bible Gateway Recommends. We have learned to love others beyond our own perceived limits of understanding and relating. I have entitled my message this morning, “This is the Day the Lord has Made.” This title comes from verse 24 of our text. My explanation started to make sense to Pastor Kerry and I told him that if the place seemed skewed, off-center, it was because as missioners of Christ we were called to be a little off-center ourselves in our way of relating with the world outside. The Day of Wrath in which Jesus bore our sins makes this other day possible. This is the day which the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Read full chapter. Let us rejoice and be glad in it!” Now repeat after me and say it like you mean it: “This is the day the Lord has made…. The wrath has been poured out on our King who bore our iniquities on the cross. We have learned to cross denominational barriers and national borders in our quest to be faithful and in the process we became partners in ministry, visionaries, one learning from the other and becoming the richer for it. We know about the letter he spread before the Lord and the prayer he made. “Of the day on which Christ arose from the dead, it may, with more propriety than of any other day, be affirmed, this is the day which Jehovah hath made. We have learned to be community as we have learned to live and love together. Sitemap, Center for Writing and Creative Expression. Disclaimer:I do not claim to own the soundtrack and any of the photos.This video was created for all to enjoy!For this is the day that the Lord has made! The psalm it what is called a “thanksgiving psalm”. So now we find that the Psalm probably was written during the time of the Temple of Solomon. This is something called solidarity. It was July, it was hot, the grass was yellow, and there was no one around to try to convince me of how great you all were. 25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity. These would be sung throughout the Passover season. Each day is a rich and precious gift from God, with new grace and new opportunities. Rejoice, this is the day that the Lord has made! Psalm 118:24 in all English translations. resurrection. He suffered death that we might be freed form God’s wrath and live for Him. I once heard Pastor Sandi Wilcox preach a sermon here on Jacob wrestling with an angel and how we too in our own wrestling with God may end up “walking funny”, after we have been blessed by God. We were called to be a little weird perhaps, in a good Austin kind of way. If this is the time of the Assyrian siege, then it makes sense. (Psalm 118:24) This chorus doesn't stop at day, but goes on to say what will happen in this week, month and year. the day. “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24. Latest updates on campus operations and resources related to COVID-19 Learn More. What else have we learned in this place? But perhaps by just looking at today we are missing this psalm’s profound meaning. King James Version (KJV) Public Domain . In this, He would fulfill the Old Testament prophecies about Him, Psalm 118 is a thanksgiving psalm. Psalm 100. In 1971, LSPS did not exist as a Master of divinity program of Wartburg seminary. This is the day the Lord has made. Did you know that Psalm 118 is the center chapter of the Bible? This is today’ sermon at TF. “This is the day…” God has many great “days.” What is “the day” God has in mind here? Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. Jordan Thomas The Day The Lord Has Made 118:24). We all know that today is the last official chapel day for LSPS; however, I refuse to be sad or to give in to depression, because you have almost convinced me in your confession of Psalm 100 that “The Lord is good and his steadfast Love endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations!” I read that “all” to mean you! He does! Death could not hold its prey. Those students learned to cross over their own comfort zones as they struggled to learn Spanish in Mexico and relate to a people who appeared to have so much less and yet shared so much with them. The arrival of Christ on earth paved the way for us to be free, His gift of salvation … This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. So he brought me here to show me the chapel to impress me, and then I knew for sure that I wasn’t going to like it. Featuring a sermon puts it on the front page of the site and is the most effective way to bring this sermon to the attention of thousands including all mobile platforms + newsletter. The [corner]stone the builders rejected has become the capstone, the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. The many quotations in the New Testament from Psalm 118 do not name an author either. Psalm 69:32 (YLT) The humble have seen--they rejoice, Ye who seek God--and your heart liveth. They had been translated into Greek for world wide distribution. But as we noted Jesus clearly said otherwise. "This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it." These 6 psalms were sung during the main Jewish holidays, Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of the Tabernacles. But in 1974 someone had a good idea that a Lutheran seminary program was needed here to teach students about Hispanic ministry in cross-cultural contexts. 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