Tuesday 16 November 2010

1“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write:

“He who has the seven Spirits of Godand the seven stars says these things:

“I know your works,that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.2Wake up and strengthen the things that remain,which you were about to throw away,for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.3Remember therefore how you have received and heard.Keep it and repent.If therefore you won’t watch,I will come as a thief,and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.4Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardisthat didn’t defile their garments.They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.5He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments,and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life,and I will confess his name before my Father,and before his angels.6He who has an ear,let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.

· · · verses 7–13 are not read14“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write:

“The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness,the Beginning of God’s creation,says these things:

15“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot.I wish you were cold or hot.16So, because you are lukewarm,and neither hot nor cold,I will vomit you out of my mouth.17Because you say, ‘I am rich,and have gotten riches,and have need of nothing,’and don’t know that you are the wretched one,miserable, poor, blind, and naked;18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire,that you may become rich;and white garments,that you may clothe yourself,and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed;and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten.Be zealous therefore, and repent.20Behold, I stand at the door and knock.If anyone hears my voice and opens the door,then I will come in to himand will dine with him, and he with me.21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne,as I also overcameand sat down with my Father on his throne.22He who has an ear,let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies.”

2He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,and speaks truth in his heart;3he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,

3nor does evil to his friend,nor casts slurs against his fellow man;4in whose eyes a vile man is despised,but who honors those who fear the Lord;he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,nor take a bribe against the innocent.He who does these things shall never be shaken.

1He entered and was passing through Jericho.2There was a man named Zacchaeus.He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.3He was trying to see who Jesus was,and couldn’t because of the crowd,because he was short.4He ran on aheadand climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him,for he was going to pass that way.5When Jesus came to the place,he looked up and saw him,and said to him, “Zacchaeus,hurry and come down,for today I must stay at your house.”6He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.7When they saw it, they all murmured,saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord,“Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor.If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone,I restore four times as much.”

9Jesus said to him,“Today, salvation has come to this house,because he also is a son of Abraham.10For the Son of Man came to seekand to save that which was lost.”