February 22, 2026
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First Sunday of Lent
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☆ Gospel:Matthew 4:1-11
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Then Jesus was sent by the Spirit into the waste land to be tested by the Evil One.
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And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
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And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
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But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.
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Then the Evil One took him to the holy town; and he put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him,
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If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.
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Jesus said to him, Again it is in the Writings, You may not put the Lord your God to the test.
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Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;
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And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.
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Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.
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Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.
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☆ Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7
2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
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And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
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And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
3:1
Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
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And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
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But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.
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And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:
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For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
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And their eyes were open and they were conscious that they had no clothing and they made themselves coats of leaves stitched together.
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☆ Romans 5:12-19
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For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:
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Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.
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But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.
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But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.
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And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.
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For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.
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So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men.
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Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.
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