Book of Jeremiah 7:23-28.
Thus says the LORD: This is what I commanded my
people: Listen to my voice; then I will be your God and you shall be my people. Walk in all the ways
that I command you, so that you may prosper. But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. They
walked in the hardness of their evil hearts and turned their backs, not their faces, to me.
From
the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day, I have sent you untiringly all my
servants the prophets. Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed; they have stiffened their
necks and done worse than their fathers.
When you speak all these words to them, they will not listen to you either; when you call to them, they will not answer you. Say to them: This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the LORD, its God, or take correction. Faithfulness has disappeared; the word itself is banished from their speech.
Psalms 95(94):1-2.6-7.8-9.
Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD;
cry out to the rock of our salvation.
Let us
greet him with a song of praise,
joyfully sing out our psalms.
Enter, let us bow down in worship;
let us kneel before the LORD who made us.
For this is our God, whose people we are,
God's well-tended flock.
Oh, that today you would hear his voice:
Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on the day of Massah in the desert.
There your ancestors tested
me;
they tried me though they had seen my works.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 11:14-23.
Jesus was
driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the
crowds were amazed. Some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he
drives out demons." Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. But he knew their
thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste and house will
fall against house.
And if Satan is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you
say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul,
by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be your judges.But if it is by
the finger of God that (I) drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a
strong man fully armed guards his palace, his possessions are safe.
But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he relied and distributes the spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters".
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