Daily Scripture Reading for the
Liturgical Calendar Year
(beginning the 1st Sunday of Advent)

August 17, 2010

Text taken from the
Third Millennium Bible^® (TMB^®)
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The Lectionary According to the Christian Seasons

Ezekiel 28:1-10

1 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2 "Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, 

`Thus saith the Lord GOD: "`Because thine heart is lifted up 
and thou hast said, "I am a god, I sit in the seat of God in the midst of the seas,"
 yet thou art a man, and not God, 
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God. 
3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; 
there is no secret that they can hide from thee. 
4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, 
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries. 
5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, 
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches. 
6 "`Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God, 
7 behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; 
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, 
and they shall defile thy brightness. 
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, 
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas. 
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, "I am God"? 
But thou shalt be a man, and no god in the hand of him that slayeth thee. 
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; 
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.'"

Deuteronomy 32:23-38

23 "`I will heap mischiefs upon them; 
I will spend Mine arrows upon them. 
24 They shall be burned with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and with bitter destruction; 
I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. 
25 The sword without and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, 
he suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said I would scatter them into corners, 
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men, 
27 were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, 
and lest they should say, "Our hand is high; and the LORD hath not done all this."' 
28 "For they are a nation void of counsel, 
neither is there any understanding in them. 
29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, 
that they would consider their latter end! 
30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, 
unless their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up? 
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, 
even our enemies themselves being judges. 
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; 
their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. 
33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, 
and the cruel venom of asps.

34 "`Is not this laid up in store with Me, 
and sealed up among My treasures? 
35 To Me belongeth vengeance and recompense; 
their foot shall slide in due time; 
for the day of their calamity is at hand, 
and the things that shall come upon them make haste.' 

36 "For the LORD shall judge His people and repent for His servants, 
when He seeth that their power is gone and there is none shut up or left. 
37 And He shall say: 'Where are their gods, 
their rock in whom they trusted, 
38 which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? 
Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.

Words of Worship - 2 Corinthians 8:9

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.

Matthew 19:23-30

23 Then said Jesus unto His disciples,

"Verily I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

25 When His disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, "Who then can be saved?" 26 But Jesus beheld them and said unto them,

"With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

27 Then Peter answered and said unto Him, "Behold, we have forsaken all and followed Thee. What shall we have therefore?" 28 And Jesus said unto them,

"Verily I say unto you, that ye that have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life. 30 But many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.

Words of Wisdom - Ecclesiasticus 31:30

Drunkenness increaseth the rage of a fool till he offend; 
it diminisheth strength and maketh wounds.

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Matthew 10:24-25a
         (see UniversalJesusSpeaks.info for more information)

"The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord.