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XXI Pentecost |
Lesson
Injustice and Oppression to Be Punished
Epistle
Warning Against Falling Away
The Peril of Falling Away
Gospel
The Healing of the Blind Bartimae'us
...your faith has made you well |
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Lesson |
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Isaiah 59:(1-4) 9-19 |
[1: Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his
ear dull, that it cannot hear;
2: but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and
your sins have hid his face from you so that he does not hear.
3: For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
4: No one enters suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on
empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and bring forth
iniquity.]
5: They hatch adders' eggs, they weave the spider's web; he who eats their
eggs dies, and from one which is crushed a viper is hatched.
6: Their webs will not serve as clothing; men will not cover themselves with
what they make. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are
in their hands.
7: Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their
thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, desolation and destruction are in their
highways.
8: The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked, no one who goes in them knows peace.
9: Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us;
we look for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in
gloom.
10: We grope for the wall like the blind, we grope like those who have no
eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we
are like dead men.
11: We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look for
justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
12: For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify
against us; for our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities:
13: transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our
God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart
lying words.
14: Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth has
fallen in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter.
15: Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The
LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
16: He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no one to
intervene; then his own arm brought him victory, and his righteousness
upheld him.
17: He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon
his head; he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and wrapped himself
in fury as a mantle.
18: According to their deeds, so will he repay, wrath to his adversaries,
requital to his enemies; to the coastlands he will render requital.
19: So they shall fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory
from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which
the wind of the LORD drives. |
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Epistle |
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Hebrews 5:12--6:1, 9-12 |
12: For though by this
time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the
first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;
13: for every one who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of
righteousness, for he is a child.
14: But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their faculties
trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.
1: Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to
maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of
faith toward God,
9: Though we speak thus, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better
things that belong to salvation.
10: For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you
showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.
11: And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness in realizing
the full assurance of hope until the end,
12: so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through
faith and patience inherit the promises. |
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Gospel |
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Mark 10:46-52 |
46: And they came to
Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great
multitude, Bartimae'us, a blind beggar, the son of Timae'us, was sitting by
the roadside.
47: And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and
say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
48: And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent; but he cried out all the
more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
49: And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man,
saying to him, "Take heart; rise, he is calling you."
50: And throwing off his mantle he sprang up and came to Jesus.
51: And Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the
blind man said to him, "Master, let me receive my sight."
52: And Jesus said to him, "Go your way; your faith has made you well." And
immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way. |
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