4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,  5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.  6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might s how the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

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Ordinary time.

We’ve entered the long green season that will last through the Sunday before Advent. The season after Pentecost (or Ordinary Time) lasts about half of the calendar year: In this case, June through November. The liturgical color will be green for all the Sundays except the Sunday when we celebrate All Saints’ Day. I guess green makes a certain amount of sense during the summer months.

From Advent, through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and the Easter Season, we are basically recalling and celebrating events in the life of Jesus. Have now seen Jesus ascend into heaven, and celebrated the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church, for the next six months, we will focus our attention on the life of the People of God (Israel in our Old Testament readings, and the Church in our New Testament readings).

Roughly a decade ago, the Episcopal Church changed its official eucharistic lectionary from the lectionary printed at the back of the Book of Common Prayer (the Prayer Book Lectionary) to the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL). The Revised Common Lectionary is used by almost all of the mainline denominations, including (with a few revisions) the Roman Catholic Church. You could walk into almost any church in America, and hear the same lessons being read on any given Sunday.

During ordinary time, the RCL follows two tracks. Track 1 is called the Sequential Track, and Track 2 is called the Gospel Related Track. The names refer to how the Old Testament Lesson is chosen. Congregations are instructed to choose one track or the other and stick with it for the year. In the Prayer Book Lectionary, the Old Testament readings were chosen for their resonance with the Gospel reading. This pattern remains true of the Gospel Related (GR) track. The architects of the RCL believed this was a not-altogether-appropriate way to read the Old Testament: it assumed that the Old Testament serves only as an antitype to the Gospel.

Consequently, the Sequential tract reads the Old Testament on its own terms. Beginning in Year A, Track 1 assigns readings from the Old Testament essentially in sequence for the three years of the eucharistic lectionary. Year A follows the stories of the patriarchs and matriarchs of God’s people. Year B follows the story of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Year C will follow the story of the end of the kingdom and the Exile. The Psalm is always chosen for its relationship to the Old Testament lesson.

In both tracks, the Epistle is read in course. This means that there will not necessarily be any obvious connection between the readings. That can be as frustrating for the preacher as it often is for the hearers. We may all end up scratching our heads, wondering how we can tie them together, and sometimes we simply cannot. But, it does give us the opportunity (provided we are regular in our attendance at Church) to hear the great stories of the epic of Israel over the course of three years.

Theologically, this is an important emphasis. Often throughout our history, Christians have thought of Christianity as replacing Judaism in God’s plan of salvation for the world (a doctrine known as supersessionism). Reading the Old Testament on its own terms, rather than as an interpretive device for the Gospel, helps us see the continuity in God’s plan of salvation, and the importance of God’s covenants with humankind. It’s always good to know the whole story.

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All the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. Now then, listen to their voice; only—you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”

Just as we have the same spirit of faith that is in accordance with scripture—“I believed, and so I spoke” —we also believe, and so we speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will bring us with you into his presence. Yes, everything is for your sake, so that grace, as it extends to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

The crowd came together again, so that Jesus and his disciples could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler of the demons he casts out demons.” And he called them to him, and spoke to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his property without first tying up the strong man; then indeed the house can be plundered.