Daily Readings October 5 - 11, 2009

Daily Lectionary

October 5 Deuteronomy 5:1–21; Matthew 8:18–34
October 6 Deuteronomy 5:22—6:9; Matthew 9:1–17
October 7 Deuteronomy 6:10–25; Matthew 9:18–38
October 8 Deuteronomy 7:1–19; Matthew 10:1–23
October 9 Deuteronomy 8:1–20; Matthew 10:24–42
October 10 Deuteronomy 9:1–22; Matthew 11:1–19
October 11 Deuteronomy 9:23—10:22; Matthew 11:20–30

Next Weeks Lessons:
The Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

The Pharisees ask a Law question. Jesus asks a Gospel question. The Pharisees seek to trap Jesus in His own words. Jesus seeks to “trap” them in the saving reality of who He is as the Messiah (Matthew 22:34–46). The Law requires you to “fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul” and to “love the stranger” (Deuteronomy 10:12–21). Failure to keep the Law perfectly brings judgment. On the other hand, the Gospel brings the grace of God given by Jesus Christ, that you may be blameless in the day of His return (1 Corinthians 1:1–9). Jesus is David’s Son yet David’s Lord, true God and true man. He is Love incarnate who fulfilled all the demands of God’s Law on our behalf, that we might be saved from the Law’s condemnation and sanctified in the Gospel’s forgiveness. Thereby we see that “God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Collect
O God, forasmuch as without You we are not able to please You, mercifully grant that Your Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

Old Testament: Deuteronomy 10:12–21
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:1–9
Holy Gospel: Matthew 22:34–46