This is the Sunday Sermon series for the Second Sunday of Lent, 2023.

The epistle is from 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 1 through 7.

Brethren, even as you have learned from us how you ought to walk to please God,

as indeed you are walking, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus to make even greater progress.

For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from immorality, that

every one of you learn how to possess his vessel and holiness and honor, not in the passion

of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God,

that no one transgress and overreach his brother in the matter,

because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before and have testified.

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but unto holiness in Christ Jesus our Lord.

A continuation of the gospel, according to St. Matthew

Chapter 17, verses 1 through 9.

At that time, Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John, and led them up a high

mountain by themselves, and was transfigured before them, and his face shone as the sun, and his garments became white as snow.

And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking together with him.

Then Peter addressed Jesus saying,

Lord, it is good for us to be here.

If you will, let us set up three tents here, one

for you, one for Moses, and one for Elias. As he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud

overshadowed them, and behold a voice of the cloud said, This is my beloved son, in whom I am

well pleased, hear him.

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