Hi! and happy good weekend to all of us, GUYS. Our "daily bread" this Saturday:
THE GOOD NEWS (22 October 2016)
"One day some persons told JESUS what had occurred in the Temple: Pilate had Galileans killed and their blood mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. JESUS replied, 'Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this? I tell you: no. But unless you change your ways, you will all perish as they did.
And those eighteen persons in Siloah who were crushed when the tower fell, do you think they were more guilty than all the others in Jerusalem? I tell you: no. But unless you change your ways, you will all perish as they did.'" - Luke 13:1-5
"Faith Works Through The Spirit Of Forgiveness"
(They told JESUS ... about an uprising of Galileans in the temple court and the immediate intervention of the Roman guard stationed at a nearby fortress. They profaned the holy grounds strictly reserved for the Jews and shed blood in the Holy Place.
Those relating the story expect that JESUS will answer in a way expressing HIS national and religious indignation over the killing of HIS compatriots and the offense against GOD. JESUS does not choose to focus on these issues: as usual HE shows that people are more absorbed in human rather than divine causes and HE calls their attention to what counts: those Galilean patriots were violent men, just like the Roman soldiers who killed them. Right then, GOD was calling everyone to a conversion on which their survival depended. In such a violent atmosphere there was no way out for the dominated Jewish people except through faith, because faith works through the spirit of forgiveness.)
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