Sunday, January 27, 2019
Sunday,
January 27, 2019
1Now the
LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he
had promised. 2Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in
his old age, at the very time God had promised him. 3Abraham gave
the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. 4When his son Isaac was
eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. 5Abraham
was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6Sarah
said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will
laugh with me." 7And she added, "Who would have said to
Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old
age." 8The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was
weaned Abraham held a great feast. 9But Sarah saw that the son whom
Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking, 10and she said
to Abraham, "Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that slave
woman's son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac." 11The
matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son. 12But
God said to him, "Do not be so distressed about the boy and your
maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac
that your offspring will be reckoned. 13I will make the son of the
maidservant into a nation also, because he is your offspring." 14Early
the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to
Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She
went on her way and wandered in the desert of Beersheba. 15When the
water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. 16Then
she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she thought,
"I cannot watch the boy die." And as she sat there nearby, she began
to sob. 17God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to
Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be
afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. 18Lift the
boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation."
19Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went
and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. 20God was
with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. 21While
he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
Psalm
25
1Of David.
To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul; 2in you I trust, O my God. Do not
let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. 3No one
whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame, but they will be put to shame
who are treacherous without excuse. 4Show me your ways, O LORD,
teach me your paths; 5guide me in your truth and teach me, for you
are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. 6Remember, O
LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. 7Remember
not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love
remember me, for you are good, O LORD. 8Good and upright is the
LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. 9He guides the
humble in what is right and teaches them his way. 10All the ways of
the LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of his
covenant. 11For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity,
though it is great. 12Who, then, is the man that fears the LORD? He
will instruct him in the way chosen for him. 13He will spend his
days in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land. 14The
LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them. 15My
eyes are ever on the LORD, for only he will release my feet from the snare. 16Turn
to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. 17The
troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish. 18Look
upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. 19See
how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me! 20Guard
my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. 21May
integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you. 22Redeem
Israel, O God, from all their troubles!
Matthew
13:18–30
18"Listen
then to what the parable of the sower means: 19When anyone hears the
message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and
snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
20The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man
who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. 21But since he
has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes
because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22The one who received
the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the
worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it
unfruitful. 23But the one who received the seed that fell on good
soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop,
yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown." 24Jesus
told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed
good seed in his field. 25But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy
came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26When the
wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. 27"The
owner's servants came to him and said, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your
field? Where then did the weeds come from?' 28" 'An enemy did
this,' he replied. "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull
them up?' 29" 'No,' he answered, 'because while you are pulling
the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. 30Let both grow
together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect
the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring
it into my barn.' "
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