Worship Service
Lectionary Theme: eformation Sunday Church that needs to be cleansed every day Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
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2 Kings 23:1-6 First Lesson
1. Then the king directed that all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem should be gathered to him.
2. The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.
3. The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people joined in the covenant.
4. The king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, the priests of the second order, and the guardians of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
5. He deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who made offerings to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.
6. He brought out the image of Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
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2 Timothy 3:10-17 Second Lesson
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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Titus 3:2-9 Epistle
2. to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show every courtesy to everyone.
3. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.
4. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
5. he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
6. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7. so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
8. The saying is sure. I desire that you insist on these things, so that those who have come to believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are excellent and profitable to everyone.
9. But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
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Mark 11:15-18 Gospel
15. Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves;
16. and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple.
17. He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
18. And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; for they were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching.