The Rock

Hello! and good Wednesday morning to you, GUYS:

 

THE GOOD NEWS (05 August 15)

 

“And now I say to you: You are Peter (or Rock) and on this rock I will build my Church; and never will the powers of death overcome it

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and what you unbind on earth shall be unbound in heaven.” – Matthew 16:18-19

 

(Is what JESUS tells Peter true also of his successors? No one can deny that even in the Old Testament GOD wanted his people to have a visible head. When GOD chose David, the first king of Israel, he promised him that his sons would rule the Kingdom of GOD forever: this promise was fulfilled in CHRIST. Now JESUS chooses Peter to be forever the visible foundation of the building. In the future his successors will be for the Church, what Peter was in the early Church.

 

For the Jews, to bind and to unbind meant to state what is forbidden and what is allowed. So Peter and his successors will have the last word about what is, or is not, the faith of the Church.)