🐮 Easter 4

Readings: Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30.

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Acts chapter nine, verses 36 to 43. Now, in Jona there was a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which in Greek is Dorcas. She was devoted to good works and acts of charity. At that time, she ca became ill and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in a room upstairs. Since Lida was near Choppa, the disciples who had heard that Peter was there, sent two men to him with a request. Please come to us without delay. So Peter got up and went with his, with them, and when he arrived they took him to the room upstairs. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing Tunics and other Clon clothing that Dorcas had made. While she was with them, Peter put, put all of them outside, and then he knelt down and prayed. He turned to the body and said, Tabitha, get up. Then she opened her eyes and seeing Peter. She sat up, he gave her his hand and helped her up. Then calling the saints and widows, he showed her to be alive. This became known throughout Joah and many believed in the Lord. Meanwhile, he stayed in Joah for some time with a certain Simon a Tanner. Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. She late, makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. She restores my soul. He leads me in right paths for his namesake. Even though I walk through the darkest Valley, I fear no evil for you are with me. You're Rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole lifelong revelation. Chapter seven verses nine through 17. After this, I looked and there was a great multitude that no one could count from every generation, from all tribes and peoples and languages standing before the throne and before the lamb robed in white with palm branches in their hands. They cried out in a loud voice saying, salvation belongs to our God who is seeded on the throne and to the lamb. And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God singing, amen. Blessed blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power, and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen. Then one of the elders addressed me saying, who are these robed and white and where have they come from? I said to him, sir, you're the one who knows. Then he said to me, these are they who have come out of the great ordeal. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb. For this reason, they're before the throne of God and worship him day and night within his temple. And the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. They will hunger no more and thirst no more. The sun will not strike them, nor any scorching. Heat for the lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he'll guide them to the springs of water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. The Gospel of John chapter 10 verses 22 through 30. At that time, the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, how long will you keep us in suspense? If you're the Messiah, tell us plainly. Jesus answered, I have told you, and you don't believe. The works that I do in my father's name testify to me, but you do not believe because you do not belong to my sheep. My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. My father, in regard to what he has given me, is greater than all else, and no one can snatch them out of the father's hand. The father and I are one.