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Seventh Sunday after Trinity
The First
Lesson
Hosea 14
1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen
by thine iniquity.
2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take
away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render
the calves of our lips.
3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither
will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods:
for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
4 I will
heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger
is turned away from him.
5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily,
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive
tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive
as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be
as the wine of Lebanon.
8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I
have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree.
From me is thy fruit found.
9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent,
and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and
the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall
therein.
1st Lesson Questions -
In what area of life must I return to the Lord's way? What "backsliding" needs to be healed in my life? (V. 4) RESOLVE
The Second
Lesson
Romans 6:12-18
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should
obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive
from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness
unto God.
14 For
sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the
law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law,
but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto
death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but
ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was
delivered you.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
2nd Lesson Questions -
Am I slave to sin or righteousness? How so? When's the last time sin had dominion over me? (V. 14) RESOLVE