Pastor Jason BauerJuly 10th 2022
1The LORD said to Moses, 2'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'I am the LORD your God. 3You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. 4You must obey my laws and be careful to follow my decrees. I am the LORD your God. 5Keep my decrees and laws, for the man who obeys them will live by them. I am the LORD. 6''No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD. 7''Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her. 8''Do not have sexual relations with your father's wife; that would dishonor your father. 9''Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. 10''Do not have sexual relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter; that would dishonor you. 11''Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father's wife, born to your father; she is your sister. 12''Do not have sexual relations with your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. 13''Do not have sexual relations with your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative. 14''Do not dishonor your father's brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt. 15''Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son's wife; do not have relations with her. 16''Do not have sexual relations with your brother's wife; that would dishonor your brother. 17''Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness. 18''Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living. 19''Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period. 20''Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and defile yourself with her. 21''Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. 22''Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. 23''Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. 24''Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. 25Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants. 26But you must keep my decrees and my laws. The native-born and the aliens living among you must not do any of these detestable things, 27for all these things were done by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land became defiled. 28And if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 29''Everyone who does any of these detestable things--such persons must be cut off from their people. 30Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the LORD your God.'' 1The LORD said to Moses, 2'Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: 'Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy. 3''Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God. 4''Do not turn to idols or make gods of cast metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God. 5''When you sacrifice a fellowship offering to the LORD, sacrifice it in such a way that it will be accepted on your behalf. 6It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it or on the next day; anything left over until the third day must be burned up. 7If any of it is eaten on the third day, it is impure and will not be accepted. 8Whoever eats it will be held responsible because he has desecrated what is holy to the LORD; that person must be cut off from his people. 9''When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God. 11''Do not steal. ''Do not lie. ''Do not deceive one another. 12''Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. 13''Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him. ''Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight. 14''Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD. 15''Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly. 16''Do not go about spreading slander among your people. ''Do not do anything that endangers your neighbor's life. I am the LORD. 17''Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. 18''Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
1For the director of music. A psalm of David. Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble. 2The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes. 3The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed and restore him from his bed of illness. 4I said, 'O LORD, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you.' 5My enemies say of me in malice, 'When will he die and his name perish?' 6Whenever one comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it abroad. 7All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying, 8'A vile disease has beset him; he will never get up from the place where he lies.' 9Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. 10But you, O LORD, have mercy on me; raise me up, that I may repay them. 11I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me. 12In my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever. 13Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father. 3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints-- 5the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel 6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit. 9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
25On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. 'Teacher,' he asked, 'what must I do to inherit eternal life?' 26'What is written in the Law?' he replied. 'How do you read it?' 27He answered: ''Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' ; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'' 28'You have answered correctly,' Jesus replied. 'Do this and you will live.' 29But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, 'And who is my neighbor?' 30In reply Jesus said: 'A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.' 36'Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?' 37The expert in the law replied, 'The one who had mercy on him.' Jesus told him, 'Go and do likewise.'