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XVII Pentecost |
Lesson
Complaining in the Desert
The Seventy Elders
Epistle
Friendship with the World
Warning Against Judging Another
(Boasting About Tomorrow
Warning to Rich Oppressors)
Gospel
Another Exorcist
Temptations to Sin
For he that is not against us is for us...
...if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off |
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Lesson |
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Numbers 11:4-6,10-16,24-29 |
4: Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving; and the people
of Israel also wept again, and said, "O that we had meat to eat!
5: We remember the fish we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the
melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic;
6: but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this
manna to look at."
10: Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at
the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses was
displeased.
11: Moses said to the LORD, "Why hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? And
why have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou dost lay the burden of
all this people upon me?
12: Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou
shouldst say to me, `Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the
sucking child, to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?'
13: Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before
me and say, `Give us meat, that we may eat.'
14: I am not able to carry all this people alone, the burden is too heavy
for me.
15: If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy
sight, that I may not see my wretchedness."
16: And the LORD said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men of the elders of
Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them;
and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there
with you.
24: So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he
gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and placed them round
about the tent.
25: Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of
the spirit that was upon him and put it upon the seventy elders; and when
the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did so no more.
26: Now two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named
Medad, and the spirit rested upon them; they were among those registered,
but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp.
27: And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in
the camp."
28: And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men,
said, "My lord Moses, forbid them."
29: But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the
LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!" |
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Epistle |
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James 4:7-12(13---5:6) |
4: Unfaithful
creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with
God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of God.
5: Or do you suppose it is in vain that the scripture says, "He yearns
jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us"?
6: But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but
gives grace to the humble."
7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
from you.
8: Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you
sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.
9: Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning
and your joy to dejection.
10: Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
11: Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil
against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and
judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but
a judge.
12: There is one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy.
But who are you that you judge your neighbor?
[13: Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such
a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain";
14: whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a
mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
15: Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall
do this or that."
16: As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
17: Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
1: Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon
you.
2: Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3: Your gold and silver have rusted, and their rust will be evidence against
you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure for the
last days.
4: Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept
back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the
ears of the Lord of hosts.
5: You have lived on the earth in luxury and in pleasure; you have fattened
your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6: You have condemned, you have killed the righteous man; he does not resist
you.] |
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Gospel |
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Mark 9:38-43,45,47-48 |
38: John said to him,
"Teacher, we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him,
because he was not following us."
39: But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him; for no one who does a mighty work in
my name will be able soon after to speak evil of me.
40: For he that is not against us is for us.
41: For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink
because you bear the name of Christ, will by no means lose his reward.
42: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it
would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he
were thrown into the sea.
43: And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to
enter life maimed than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable
fire.
45: And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off; it is better for you to
enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
47: And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out; it is better for you to
enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into
hell,
48: where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. |
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