02.03.2019 – “The Greatest Of These Is Love” Rev. Sarah Gomez-Lorraine

1st Scripture Reading:

Psalm 71:1-6

In you, O God,
I take refuge;
let me never be put
to shame.
In your righteousness
deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me
and save me.
Be to me a rock
of refuge,
a strong fortress,
to save me,
for you are my rock
and my fortress.
Rescue me,
O my God,
from the hand
of the wicked,
from the grasp
of the unjust and cruel.
For you, O God,
are my hope,
my trust, O God,
from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned
from my birth;
it was you who took me
from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually
of you.

2nd Scripture Reading:

Luke 4:21-30
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Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is not this Joseph’s son?” He said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘Doctor, cure yourself!’ And you will say, ‘Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum.'” And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown. But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.” When they heard this, all in the synagogue were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way.
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