Seventh
Sunday after Pentecost
Proper 11
July 23, 2017
Almighty God, the fountain
of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we
ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on
our weakness, and mercifully give us those things
which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our
blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of
your Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for
ever. Amen.
Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward
Haran. He came to a certain place and stayed there
for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one
of the stones of the place, he put it under his head
and lay down in that place. And he dreamed that there
was a ladder set up on the earth, the top of it reaching
to heaven; and the angels of God were ascending and
descending on it. And the Lord stood beside him and
said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your
father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you
lie I will give to you and to your offspring; and
your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth,
and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the
east and to the north and to the south; and all the
families of the earth shall be blessed in you and
in your offspring. Know that I am with you and will
keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back
to this land; for I will not leave you until I have
done what I have promised you.” Then Jacob woke
from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is
in this place—and I did not know it!”
And he was afraid, and said, “How awesome is
this place! This is none other than the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven.” So Jacob rose
early in the morning, and he took the stone that he
had put under his head and set it up for a pillar
and poured oil on the top of it. He called that place
Bethel. More
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Genesis
28:10-19a
Brothers and sisters, we are debtors,
not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh--
for if you live according to the flesh, you will die;
but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of
the body, you will live. For all who are led by the
Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not
receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we
cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit
bearing witness with our spirit that we are children
of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God
and joint heirs with Christ-- if, in fact, we suffer
with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
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Romans
8:12-25
Jesus put before the crowdanother
parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared
to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while
everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds
among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants
came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as
well. And the slaves of the householder came and said
to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in
your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’
He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’
The slaves said to him, ‘Then do you want us
to go and gather them?’ But he replied, ‘No;
for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat
along with them. Let both of them grow together until
the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers,
Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to
be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
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Matthew
13:24-30,36-43
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