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The WORD
The
FIRST Lesson –
Jeremiah 28:5-9
5Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet
Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who
were standing in the house of the LORD; 6and the
prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD
fulfill the words that you have prophesied, and bring back to
this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD,
and all the exiles. 7But listen now to this word that
I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.
8The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient
times prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many
countries and great kingdoms. 9As for the prophet who
prophesies peace, when the word of that prophet comes true, then
it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the prophet."
The
SECOND Lesson
– Romans 6:12-23
12Therefore,
do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make
you obey their passions. 13No longer present your
members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present
yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to
life, and present your members to God as instruments of
righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over
you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15What then? Should we sin because we are not under
law but under grace? By no means! 16Do you not know
that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you
are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads
to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But
thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have
become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which
you were entrusted, 18and that you, having been set
free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. 19I
am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations.
For just as you once presented your members as slaves to
impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present
your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
20When you were slaves of sin, you were free in
regard to righteousness. 21So what advantage did you
then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end
of those things is death. 22But now that you have
been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get
is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23For the
wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
the good news –
Matthew 10:40-42
40Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever
welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41Whoever
welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a
prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous
person in the name of a
righteous person will receive the
reward of the righteous;
42and whoever gives even a cup
of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a
disciple — truly I tell you, none of these will lose their
reward."
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