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Sunday 5 July 4 Sunday after Trinity
Romans 7.15-25a
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not
do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want,
I agree that the law is good. But in fact it is no longer I that do it, but sin
that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is,
in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the
good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do. Now if I do what I do not
want, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
So I find
it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.
For 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, making me captive to the law of sin
that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this
body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of
God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.
This is the word of the Lord.
All Thanks be to God.
Gospel Reading (Matthew 11.16-19, 25-end)
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
according to Matthew.
All Glory to you, O Lord.
‘But to
what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the
market-places and calling to one another,
“We
played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not mourn.”
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and
they say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they
say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!”
Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds.’
At that
time Jesus said, ‘I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you
have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed
them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have
been handed over to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son
chooses to reveal him.
‘Come to
me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in
heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.’
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
All Praise to you, O Christ.
Readings for Sunday 12 July 2019
(Romans 8.1-11)
A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans
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 you
free from the law of sin and of death. For God has done what the law, weakened
by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just
requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the
flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh
set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the
Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the
flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this
reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit
to God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8and those who are in the flesh cannot please
God.
But you are not in the
flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who
does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in
you, though the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of
righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in
you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies
also through his Spirit that dwells in you.
This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Gospel Reading
Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew.
Glory to you, O Lord.
Matthew 13.1-9, 18-23
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the
lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat
there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things
in parables, saying: ‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some
seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on
rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly,
since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and
since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and
the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought
forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Let anyone with ears
listen!’
‘Hear then the parable
of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand
it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is
what was sown on the path. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the
one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; yet such a person
has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution
arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. As for what
was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the
world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. But as for
what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands
it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another
sixty, and in another thirty.’
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, O Christ.