It is good every now and then to dwell on how we were saved from the clutches of sin. We recall how while we were still sinners, our merciful, loving Lord Jesus Christ came to deliver us and give us new life in Him. He did so when our hearts cried out to Him. By choosing to listen to Him and doing His will is how we will continue to walk in His light and love. How we will remain free from sin, to live fully in His love.
Make no mistake there is no such thing as once saved always saved! For just like the man in today’s parable who built his house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!
Lord here I am, I come to do Your will. Amen
Saints Cornelius and Cyprian pray for us…
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First reading
1 Timothy 1:15-17 ·
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners
Here is a saying that you can rely on and nobody should doubt: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I myself am the greatest of them; and if mercy has been shown to me, it is because Jesus Christ meant to make me the greatest evidence of his inexhaustible patience for all the other people who would later have to trust in him to come to eternal life. To the eternal King, the undying, invisible and only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Gospel
Luke 6:43-49
Whoever hears me builds his house on a rock
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘There is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit. For every tree can be told by its own fruit: people do not pick figs from thorns, nor gather grapes from brambles. A good man draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart; a bad man draws what is bad from the store of badness. For a man’s words flow out of what fills his heart.
‘Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord” and not do what I say?
‘Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them – I will show you what he is like. He is like the man who when he built his house dug, and dug deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man who built his house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!’
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