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June 09, 2024

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Lectionary Theme: Environmental Sunday: Integrity of whole creation in Christ (3rd Sunday after Pentecost)

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    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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    18. I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

    19. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God,

    20. for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope

    21. that the creation itself will be set free from its enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

    22. We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,

    23. and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.

    24. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what one already sees?

    25. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

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    16. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

    17. “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.

    18. Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

    19. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

    20. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.

    21. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”