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Lectionary Theme: Sunday: Mission – Proclamation and Acts of the Kingdom of God (11th Sunday after Pentecost)
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Isaiah 6:1-8 First Lesson
1. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple.
2. Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
3. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
4. The pivots on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke.
5. And I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
6. Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs.
7. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out.”
8. Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I; send me!”
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Acts 19:8-12 Second Lesson
8. He entered the synagogue and for three months spoke out boldly, and argued persuasively about the kingdom of God.
9. When some stubbornly refused to believe and spoke evil of the Way before the congregation, he left them, taking the disciples with him, and argued daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
10. This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia, both Jews and Greeks, heard the word of the Lord. The Sons of Sceva
11. God did extraordinary miracles through Paul,
12. so that when the handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, their diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them.
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Romans 1:8-17 Epistle
8. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.
9. For God, whom I serve with my spirit by announcing the gospel of his Son, is my witness that without ceasing I remember you always in my prayers,
10. asking that by God’s will I may somehow at last succeed in coming to you.
11. For I am longing to see you so that I may share with you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
12. or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
13. I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as I have among the rest of the Gentiles.
14. I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish
15. —hence my eagerness to proclaim the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
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Matthew 10:7-16 Gospel
7. As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’
8. Cure the sick; raise the dead; cleanse those with a skin disease; cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment.
9. Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts,
10. no bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff, for laborers deserve their food.
11. Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave.
12. As you enter the house, greet it.
13. If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.
14. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town.
15. Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
16. “I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.