TRINITY – WEEK 19 – SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 9:1‒8 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take heart, My son; your sins are forgiven.” Matthew 9:2 These words in a brief summary tell us what the kingdom of Christ really is. It is the kingdom in which our hearts are touched by…

TRINITY – WEEK 18 – SATURDAY LESSON: ROMANS 5:18‒21 Now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit. Romans 7:6 Where true, genuine love of God flows from a man’s heart, there…

TRINITY – WEEK 18 – FRIDAY LESSON: ROMANS 8:1‒11 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1‒2 Christ wants to show us in this week’s Gospel…

TRINITY – WEEK 18 – THURSDAY LESSON: ROMANS 7:7‒11 I delight in the law of God, in my inmost self, but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin which dwells in my members. Romans 7:22‒23 Be quite sure…

TRINITY – WEEK 18 – WEDNESDAY LESSON: GALATIANS 2:15‒16 It is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. Romans 2:13 How many are there who really understand the commandment, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and…

TRINITY – WEEK 18 – TUESDAY   LESSON: PSALM 40:1-8  “Blessed are those who keep his (the Lord’s) testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart.” Psalm 119:2   Man’s unbelief has invented and set up countless substitutes for the two main commandments of the Law, resulting in forms of ungodliness which Scripture describes as “grieving” God and the…

THE WEEK OF TRINITY XVIII – MONDAY LESSON: 1 SAMUEL 16:1-7 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two…

TRINITY – Week 18 – SUNDAY LESSON: MATTHEW 22:34-46 “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Psalm 119:18 Today’s Gospel supplies answers to two questions. The first is the one which the lawyer puts to Jesus on behalf of the Pharisees, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the…

TRINITY – WEEK 17 – SATURDAY  LESSON: MATTHEW 20:20‒28  “The tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,…

TRINITY – WEEK 17 – FRIDAY  LESSON: PSALM 138:1‒6  “When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, “Give place to this man,” and…