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Holy Qurbana English

Worship Service

Sunday
February 18, 2024

Services

08:00

Sunday School Class

10:00

Holy Qurbana English

Events



Lectionary Theme: The Compassionate touch of Jesus Christ that sanctifies (2nd Sunday of Lent); Conclusion of Maramon Convention;

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    1. Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man and in high favor with his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Aram. The man, though a mighty warrior, suffered from leprosy.

    2. Now the Arameans on one of their raids had taken a young girl captive from the land of Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.

    3. She said to her mistress, “If only my lord were with the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy.”

    4. So Naaman went in and told his lord just what the girl from the land of Israel had said.

    5. And the king of Aram said, “Go then, and I will send along a letter to the king of Israel.” He went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of garments.

    6. He brought the letter to the king of Israel, which read, “When this letter reaches you, know that I have sent to you my servant Naaman, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

    7. When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to give death or life, that this man sends word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? Just look and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.”

    8. But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.”

    9. So Naaman came with his horses and chariots, and halted at the entrance of Elisha’s house.

    10. Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go, wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored and you shall be clean.”

    11. But Naaman became angry and went away, saying, “I thought that for me he would surely come out, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and would wave his hand over the spot, and cure the leprosy!

    12. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean?” He turned and went away in a rage.

    13. But his servants approached and said to him, “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

    14. So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young boy, and he was clean.

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    34. Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality,

    35. but in every people anyone who fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to him.

    36. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all.

    37. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John announced:

    38. how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

    39. We are witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,

    40. but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear,

    41. not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

    42. He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead.

    43. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”

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    5. This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6. If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

    7. but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

    9. If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

    10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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