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August 25, 2024

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Lectionary Theme: Theological Education for faith nourishment (14th Sunday after Pentecost)

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    1. Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy,

    2. so that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life, and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.

    3. Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe them diligently, so that it may go well with you, and so that you may multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has promised you.

    4. Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.

    5. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

    6. Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart.

    7. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise.

    8. Bind them as a sign on your hand, fix them as an emblem on your forehead,

    9. and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. Caution against Disobedience

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    23. After they had set a day to meet with him, they came to him at his lodgings in great numbers. From morning until evening he explained the matter to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.

    24. Some were convinced by what he had said, while others refused to believe.

    25. So they disagreed with each other; and as they were leaving, Paul made one further statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah,

    26. ‘Go to this people and say, You will indeed listen, but never understand, and you will indeed look, but never perceive.

    27. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’

    28. Let it be known to you then that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles; they will listen.”

    30. He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him,

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    10. Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,

    11. my persecutions, and my suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

    12. Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

    13. But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.

    14. But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it,

    15. and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

    16. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

    17. so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.

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    18. “Hear, then, the parable of the sower.

    19. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path.

    20. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

    21. yet such a person has no root but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away.

    22. As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.

    23. But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”