Series Information
2nd Peter: A Lamp in the Darkness
This Week’s Sermon Title: Lies & Destruction
Dates: Oct. 2-3
This week’s bulletins
The collect for the day
Keep, O Lord, your household the Church in continual godliness, that through your protection it may be free from all adversities, and devoutly serve you in good works, to the glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
The Lesson: 2 Peter 2: 1-3
False Prophets and Teachers
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
The psalm: Psalm 18: 20-23
20 He brought me forth into a place of liberty;
he delivered me, because I had found favor in his eyes.
21 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteous dealing;
according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me,
22 Because I had kept the ways of the Lord
and had not forsaken my God, as the wicked do.
23 For I had an eye unto all his laws
and did not cast out his commandments from me.
(BCP 2019)
The gospel: Matthew 7: 15-20
A Tree and Its Fruit
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
