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Daily Bible Readings for the Week of the Twenty-fourth Sunday of Pentecost, Year Two
Scripture Text: Revelation 12:11
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Join us for Morning Prayer in the chapel (well, in the counting room until the construction is finished), Monday through Friday* at 8:30am, where we read and discuss these Scriptures and pray together. We do the same during Vespers in the parsonage Sunday evenings at 6pm. Join us! The parsonage is across the street from the church.
Our readings for the week of the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost are listed below. Each verse is linked and will open to Biblia so you may read online. Click the link to read online or read in your Bible. The additional reading each day speaks to the common conversation between the three readings.
Sunday: Jonah 1:1–17a; 1 Corinthians 10:15–24; Matthew 18:15–20
...to all those...who say, ‘Well, if faith is everything and suffices to make us pious, why then are good works commended? Let us be of good cheer and do nothing.’ ” To this he answers, “No, my friend, not so. It might indeed be thus if you were entirely an inward man and had become completely spiritual and soulful, but this will not happen till the day of judgment.” In so far as a man is of this world and a servant of sin, he maintains, he must rule over his body, and consort with other men. “Here works make their appearance; idleness is bad. The body must be disciplined in moderation and exercised by fasting, watching and labour, that it may be obedient and conformable to faith and inwardness, and may not hinder and resist as its nature is when it is not controlled.” “But,” he continues, “such works must not be done in the belief that thereby a man becomes pious in God’s sight; for piety before God consists in faith alone,” and it is only “because the soul is purified by faith and loves God that it desires all things to be pure, first of all its own body, and wishes every man likewise to love and praise God.”
Robert H. Murray, Erasmus & Luther: Their Attitude to Toleration (London; New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; The Macmillan Co., 1920), 137–38.
Monday: Jonah 1:17–2:10; Revelation 11:1–14; Luke 11:14–26
Luther attributes this all-comprehensive conquest and blotting out of sin, etc., together with reconciliation with God, also, it is true, to the sufferings and death of Christ; but he regards it as finally completed only in the resurrection. And the fact itself, that we have been reconciled to God and have forgiveness, though commonly associated by Luther directly with the sufferings of Christ, is yet, again, represented as fully assured only by the resurrection. He declares that Christ “suffers for us, rises from the dead, and thus reconciles us to the Father, so that we have for His sake the forgiveness of sins”; and again: “We must believe the fruit of the resurrection — what we have thereby received, namely, forgiveness and remission of all sins — that Christ has passed through death (i.e., evidently, suffering and victorious), and has thereby overcome sin and death, yea, everything that can harm us,” etc. Thus the resurrection is a chief article of faith. It and the ascension are alone our comfort, life, eternal happiness, righteousness and our all. “Christ arisen (resuscitatus) is our righteousness and our victory.”
Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther in Its Historical Development and Inner Harmony, trans. Charles E. Hay, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1897), 411–12.
Tuesday: Jonah 3:1–4:11; Revelation 11:14–19; Luke 11:27–36
We should, says Luther, “become hostile to sin from love, not from fear of punishment.” We should repent from love to the Lord and reverence for Him. “To repent (büssen: do works of penitence) without love for righteousness and delight in it — is secretly to be at enmity with God.”
Julius Köstlin, The Theology of Luther in Its Historical Development and Inner Harmony, trans. Charles E. Hay, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1897), 432.
Wednesday: Nahum 1:1–14; Revelation 12:1–6; Luke 11:37–52
“It is by your silence and cloaking that you cast suspicion upon yourself. If you believe as you declare in my presence, then speak so also in the church, in public lectures, in sermons, and in private conversations, and strengthen your brethren, and lead the erring back to the right path, and contradict the contumacious spirits; otherwise your confession is sham pure and simple, and worth nothing. Whoever really regards his doctrine, faith and confession as true, right, and certain cannot remain in the same stall with such as teach, or adhere to, false doctrine; nor can he keep on giving friendly words to Satan and his minions. A teacher who remains silent when errors are taught, and nevertheless pretends to be a true teacher, is worse than an open fanatic and by his hypocrisy does greater damage than a heretic.
F. Bente, Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, electronic ed. (Concordia Publishing House, 1921), 94.
Thursday: Nahum 1:15–2:12; Revelation 12:7–17; Luke 11:53–12:12
...the piety of hypocrites is the greatest impiety; and their truth, is the greatest lie.
Martin Luther, Select Works of Martin Luther: An Offering to the Church of God in “The Last Days”, trans. Henry Cole, vol. I (London: T. Bensley, 1826), 124.
Friday: Nahum 2:13–3:7; Revelation 13:1–10; Luke 12:13–31
Although a good man may have but little, if he only has it with God and honor, it will be dearer to him than all the treasures of the ungodly
Martin Luther, “Fourth Sunday after Trinity (Second Sermon. Luke 6:36–42),” in Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: First to Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, ed. and trans. John Nicholas Lenker, vol. IV, The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther (Minneapolis, MN: Lutherans in All Lands Co., 1904), 125.
Saturday: Nahum 3:8–19; Revelation 13:11–18; Luke 12:32–48
As God’s creature, he is bound to be God’s servant; and at the last great day he will have to give an account of every opportunity and capacity for service which God has given to him, and woe unto him if he be found an unfaithful steward in the day of his Lord’s reckoning!
C. H. Spurgeon, “Faithful Stewardship,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 41 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1895), 554.
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Rev. Dr. Mark E. Ryman has served as a pastor for St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Salisbury, NC, since January 2021. Previously, Pastor Ryman served congregations in North Carolina and Ohio, as well as a call to specialized ministry with Sola Publishing.
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