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Grace, mercy, and peace be unto you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
Brothers and sisters in Christ, the text for this morning comes from the Gospel reading. You may be seated. One of the first prayers you ever memorized, without even realizing it, especially if you grew up in the church, is the Lord’s Prayer. And in the Lord’s Prayer, there is one of the petitions that goes like this: And lead us not into temptation. And yet Jesus in this morning’s text says to His disciples and to you, temptations to sin are sure to come.
Now, is there a disconnect? If we’re praying, Lord, lead us not into temptations, and yet you tell us there’s tons of temptations that are going to come, is there a disconnect between these two? And the answer is no.
Listen to Luther’s explanation. God tempts no one. We pray in this petition that God would guard and keep us so that the devil, the world, and our sinful nature may not deceive us or mislead us into false belief, despair, and other great shame and vice. Although we are attacked by these things, we pray
