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Lectionary Theme: New Sunday: My Lord and My God
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Isaiah 45:21-25 First Lesson
21. Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? There is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is no one besides me.
22. Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.
23. By myself I have sworn, from my mouth has gone forth in righteousness a word that shall not return: “To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”
24. Only in the Lord, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; all who were incensed against him shall come to him and be ashamed.
25. In the Lord all the offspring of Israel shall triumph and glory.
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Revelation 1:9-20 Second Lesson
9. I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
10. I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet
11. saying, “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”
12. Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,
13. and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest.
14. His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire,
15. his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.
16. In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.
17. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,
18. and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
19. Now write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after this.
20. As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
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Colossians 1:15-20 Epistle
15. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16. for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him.
17. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
19. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
20. and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
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John 20:24-29 Gospel
24. But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.
25. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
26. A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”
27. Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe.”
28. Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”
29. Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.” The Purpose of This Book