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Lectionary Theme: With Christ in to the New Year
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1 Samuel 7:1-12 First Lesson
1. And the people of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. They consecrated his son, Eleazar, to have charge of the ark of the Lord.
2. From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.
3. Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Astartes from among you. Direct your heart to the Lord and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”
4. So Israel put away the Baals and the Astartes, and they served the Lord only.
5. Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.”
6. So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.
7. When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
8. The Israelites said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, and pray that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
9. So Samuel took a sucking lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord; Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him.
10. As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel, but the Lord thundered with a mighty voice that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were routed before Israel.
11. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them down as far as beyond Beth-car.
12. Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah and named it Ebenezer, for he said, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”
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Revelation 21:1-8 Second Lesson
1. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
2. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and be their God;
4. he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.”
5. And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
6. Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
7. Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.
8. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Romans 8:31-39 Epistle
31. What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
32. He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else?
33. Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
34. Who is to condemn? It is Christ who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?
36. As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37. No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.
38. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
39. nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Matthew 5:1-12 Gospel