Saturday, October 5, 2002

Saturday of the 15th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: September 22

Epistle

1 Corinthians 4.17-5.5

Read in context

4:17For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.Log in to add notes

4:18Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.Log in to add notes

4:19But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.Log in to add notes

4:20For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.Log in to add notes

4:21What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?Log in to add notes

5:1It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.Log in to add notes

5:2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.Log in to add notes

5:3For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,Log in to add notes

5:4In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,Log in to add notes

5:5To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 4.31-36

Read in context

31And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.Log in to add notes

32And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.Log in to add notes

33And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice,Log in to add notes

34Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.Log in to add notes

35And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.Log in to add notes

36And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.Log in to add notes