Proper 26
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The Great Commandment
The Great Commandment
Hymn of the Day: 852 O God of mercy, God of might
Collect: Lord Jesus Christ, our great High Priest, cleanse us by the power of Your redeeming blood that in purity and peace we may worship and adore Your holy name; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Deut 6.1-9
“These are the commands, decrees, and regulations that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you. You must obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy, and you and your children and grandchildren must fear the Lord your God as long as you live. If you obey all his decrees and commands, you will enjoy a long life. Listen closely, Israel, and be careful to obey. Then all will go well with you, and you will have many children in the land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you. “Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
notes: Two halves, the obey and fear part and then the Shema and talk-tie-write part.
Psa 119.1-8
Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts. They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in his paths. You have charged us to keep your commandments carefully. Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees! Then I will not be ashamed when I compare my life with your commands. As I learn your righteous regulations, I will thank you by living as I should! I will obey your decrees. Please don’t give up on me!
notes: The LCMS agrees that the psalm is 119 and not 106 (Anglican) or 18 (Roman Catholic). I’m sure those other two are good alternate choices. Because 119 is a wisdom psalm like 1 and 19 you can bet among its many 172 verses it will begin in that way and it does. Ashre ‘blessed’ is the first word. I don’t think Dr. Mike Heiser really addressed my question perhaps I asked it unclearly or clumsily. The fact is Jesus and the twelve disciples like Jenny’s group have a primary language and a secondary one that they know very well. That Jesus began his Sermon on the Mount with “blessed” shows that Aramean/Hebrew and not Greek was their primary language.
Gradual: Revelation 7:14b; Psalm 84:5
These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. / They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. / Blessèd are those whose strength is in you, / in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Heb 9.11-14
So Christ has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that greater, more perfect Tabernacle in heaven, which was not made by human hands and is not part of this created world. With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever. Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.
notes: (LCMS →22) One could read through 22 but I would say do it every other time or every third time, otherwise what is bite-sized and manageable becomes too long and the hearer forgets the beginning by the time you get to the end.
Mrk 12.28-34
One of the teachers of religious law was standing there listening to the debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” The teacher of religious law replied, “Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth by saying that there is only one God and no other. And I know it is important to love him with all my heart and all my understanding and all my strength, and to love my neighbor as myself. This is more important than to offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law.” Realizing how much the man understood, Jesus said to him, “You are not far from the Kingdom of God.” And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.
notes: (LCMS →37) We get the Schema in its NT setting, quoted by Jesus and we have to pay attention to the context, the backstory, the human interaction situation in which it was used. Jesus didn’t say he was in the kingdom but almost there. By God’s grace, if he continued down that road, continued searching, he would definitely find the kingdom of God. I don’t think I would ever read the LCMS extension, it confusingly adds to what is a clear single story.