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The lectionary readings for Trinity 2 in Year C are Galatians 5.1, 13-25 Luke 9.51-end.

In Galatians 5, Paul explores the meaning of freedom in Christ. This is not freedom to indulge the desires of our sinful human nature (the 'flesh') but the freedom to fulfill the law in obedience to God by the power of the Spirit.

Paul uses some startling language to express what this means. In love, we are to become 'slaves' to one another. Paul continues to address divisions, especially between those claiming that followers of Jesus must obey the law and others, contrasts the 'works of the flesh' with the {singular) 'fruit of the Spirit', and shows that the new life given by the Spirit can only be lived by the power of the Spirit.

For the video on the gospel reading, Luke 9.51f, where the disciples want to call down fire on a Samaritan village, and Jesus talks about the cost of discipleship, see here: https://youtu.be/8w29TflFMBw

For the written commentary on Luke 9.51f, see here: https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/why-does-jesus-make-being-a-disciple-so-hard-in-luke-9/