22ND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2025​

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INTRODUCTION​

We worship on the first day of the week because Jesus was raised on that day.  
     Every Sunday is a little Easter. This Sunday feels more like Easter than many as
     the appointed texts celebrate the reality of the resurrection. Live it up this Lord’s
     day. Our God is the God of the living.

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PRAYER OF THE DAY

O God, our eternal redeemer, by the presence of your Spirit you renew and direct
     our hearts. Keep always in our mind the end of all things and the day of
     judgment. Inspire us for a holy life here, and bring us to the joy of the
     resurrection, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. Amen.​

FIRST READING

JOB 19:23-27A
     Job suffers the loss of children, wealth, and health. Accused by his companions
     of wrongdoing, he knows himself to be innocent. Here, in the midst of his
     suffering, Job clings to the radical hope that his vindicator, his redeemer, lives;
     and that one day he himself will see God.

23 “O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!
24 O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock forever!
25 For I know that my vindicator lives
and that in the end he will stand upon the earth;
26 and after my skin has been destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,
27a whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.”

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PSALM

PSALM 17:1-9
(Response) Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings. (Ps. 17:8)

1 Hear a just cause, O Lord; give heed to my cry;
listen to my prayer, which does not come from lying lips.
2 Let my vindication come forth from your presence;
let your eyes be fixed on justice.
3 Examine my heart, visit me by night,
melt me down; you will find no impurity in me.
4 I have not regarded what others do;
at the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
(Response) Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings. (Ps. 17:8)

5 My footsteps hold fast to your well-worn path;
and my feet do not slip.
6 I call upon you, O God, for you will answer me;
incline your ear to me and hear my words.
7 Show me your marvelous lovingkindness,
O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand from those
        who rise against them.
8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me under the shadow of your wings,
9 from the wicked who assault me,
from my deadly enemies who surround me.
(Response) Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings. (Ps. 17:8)

SECOND READING

2ND THESSALONIANS 2:1-5, 13-17
This portion of the letter provides encouragement for the church at Thessalonica
     during a time of confusion and opposition, as some allowed their concern over
     Jesus’ imminent return to divert them from the central teachings of the gospel.
 
1 As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to
     him, we beg you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or
     alarmed, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as though from us, to the effect
     that the day of the Lord is already here. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way, for
     that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is
     revealed, the one destined for destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself
     above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the
     temple of God, declaring himself to be God. 5 Do you not remember that I told
     you these things when I was still with you?

     13 But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved
     by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits for salvation through
     sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 For this purpose he
     called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus
     Christ. 15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions
     that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter.
     16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and
     through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope, 17 comfort your hearts

     and strengthen them in every good work and word.

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​​​​GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the dead; to him be glory and
     dominion forever and ever. Alleluia. (Rev. 1:5, 6)

GOSPEL READING

LUKE 20:27-38
Some Sadducees, who do not believe in the resurrection of the dead, try to trap
     Jesus. They formulate the convoluted case of a serial widow who marries a
     succession of seven brothers. Jesus responds by teaching about God to whom
     all are alive and in whom all relationships are fulfilled.

27 Some Sadducees, those who say there is no resurrection, came to [Jesus]
     28 and asked him a question: “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s
     brother dies leaving a wife but no children, the man shall marry the widow and
     raise up children for his brother. 29 Now there were seven brothers; the first
     married a woman and died childless; 30 then the second 31 and the third married
     her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. 32 Finally the woman also
     died. 33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the
     seven had married her.”

     34 Jesus said to them, “Those who belong to this age marry and are given in
     marriage, 35 but those who are considered worthy of a place in that age and in
     the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
     36 Indeed, they cannot die anymore, because they are like angels and are
     children of God, being children of the resurrection. 37 And the fact that the dead
     are raised Moses himself showed, in the story about the bush, where he speaks
     of the Lord as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
     38 Now he is God not of the dead but of the living, for to him all of them are alive.”

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