Twenty-third
Sunday after Pentecost November
4, 2012
Lessons for Proper 26
Deuteronomy 6:1–9 ~ God’s commands guide our thoughts and our actions at home and away.
Psalm 119:1–8 (antiphon: v. 5)
Hebrews 9:11–14 (15–22) ~ Jesus won an eternal inheritance for us, cleansing us from our sin by
His blood.
Mark 12:28–37 ~ When Jesus judged a scribe
who evaluated His teaching, everyone was silenced.
GATHERING THE TEXTS: God’s Covenant and Inheritance of Grace
God has placed us into
families where His commands may be passed on through our children to guide our
living together. They also pass judgment
on our lives where we fail to live in His love and with love toward each other. To free us from that condemnation, God has
sent the Christ, David’s son and David’s Lord, Who has made us inheritors of God’s grace in the family of His love by establishing a
new covenant with us through the shedding of His blood.
PRAYER BEFORE THE SERVICE: Loving Father, You have guaranteed an inheritance
of grace to me by the blood of Your Son.
As You have included me in Your eternal family, so may I be guided in
word and deed, as I come and go through all my doings in this world, until I
receive the blessing You have prepared for all Your children in the world to
come. Amen.
STEWARDSHIP THOUGHT: God has blessed us with resources in a land of
plenty. How we use them is a measure of
our love for God and neighbor.
OFFERING PRAYER: You call us, Lord, to live by Your commands;
You bless us with the
bounty from our lands.
Provide us
with Your love that we may be
Channels of
Your grace for all to see.
CONVICTION AND COMFORT: We know God’s commandments of love and readily use them to
evaluate the lives of others, but we only come close to the Kingdom of God
because we fail to keep His will in our own living. Thanks be to God, He has drawn us into the holy place of His
love and made us heirs of His grace through the new covenant established by the
sacrificed blood of the Christ. He is the One who has defeated all His enemies
and is seated on the throne of God’s mercy.
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