When Tragedy is Mixed with Service to Jesus Christ

Luke 13:1-9

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Jesus Christ was from Galilee, and Nazareth is a place within Galilee. He is called the Man from Galilee as well as Jesus of Nazareth. When Mary was pregnant, her and Joseph had to go to Bethlehem to register for the census, and while there, Jesus was born. This post mentions something about Galileans so I wanted to give a small background on that.

• Mixing guilt and fear with service to Jesus Christ.
• Being a victim to violent tragedy does not make us sinners.
• Being a victim to happenstance tragedy does not make us sinners.
• The fruit of Jesus Christ determines life or death with God.

Mixing guilt and fear with service to Jesus Christ. “There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.” Joshua 13:1 This explains how cold-hearted Pilate was, and this is the same Pilate who Jesus faced before His crucifixion and death on the Cross. Pilate washed his hands of anything to do with Him and turned Him over to the mobs to have Him killed. That is one example of how Pilate was mixing the blood of innocent people into the practices of the Jewish nation. It was Pilate’s mode of operation to mix tragedy and death with service to God. Today, those who live and govern by the mark of the beast manipulate decent human beings into making decisions which are mixed with the blood of innocent people. They want to make a decent person complicit in the ills that they are doing. The churches of today are doing that by seducing people to be part of their fellowship, then mixing their services with practices that brings death to Christ. They have discarded the Gospel of Jesus and have embraced humanism empowered by the mark of the beast. When Pilate had the Galileans murdered, it was during a gathering of the Jewish people when they were making their sacrifices. The Roman soldiers walked through the crowd and killed them, thus mixing blood with their service of sacrifice. Of course, something like that definitely makes sour any service to God within a gathering of Believers. For followers of Jesus Christ, gathering in the churches have become that sour.

Being a victim to violent tragedy does not make us sinners. “And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things?” Luke13:2 Nowadays, people actually believe that suffering and being a victim comes because a person is somehow wrong. They figure the person is not living right by the thing that has power over physiology, and controls behaviors, health, feelings, etc. Those who do live by it has heightened intuition, uncanny knowledge, remarkable health, and seems to avoid personal tragedy. But just because people have a more fortunate life than others doesn’t make them good people, and suffering does not make a person worse than anyone else, Jesus says, “I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:3 It is not about how life treats us here on this earth, it’s about our relationship to God. Each one of us must come to God through Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. That is our Salvation and unless that repentance happens then we perish in the eternal flames of Hell.

Being a victim to happenstance does not make us sinners. Often, people are blamed for the happenstance tragedies that happens to them by saying they had no business being involved in what they were doing anyway. Or they are blamed for having bad timing, or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jesus is talking about that here, “Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?” Luke 13:4 The Jewish people thought the tower collapsed on the eighteen Jewish men because they were building it for the Romans. Even today, people associate happenstance tragedies to the thing that has power over physiology and external elements. For example, an elderly person walks by an Alexa or SIRI speaker, it suddenly comes on with some type of announcement, and the person has a heart attack. People are tempted to smile and laugh at such a thing because it is funny to those who govern by the mark of the beast which has power over feelings and emotions. People who fall victim to happenstance are not sinners any more than anyone else, as Jesus says, “I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:5 We must all come to God through Jesus Christ for the remission of sins. If not, then we perish in the eternal lake of fire.

The fruit of Jesus Christ determines life or death with God. “He also spoke this parable: “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.” Luke 13:6 Each one of us are created by God as the fig tree planted in the vineyard of Jesus Christ. “Then he said to the keeper of his vineyard, ‘Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why does it use up the ground?’” Luke 13:7 God wants to see the fruit of Jesus Christ blossoming from our heart. It doesn’t matter what tragedies come our way, that is not how God judges us, He looks at the fruit that blossoms from within us. God will cut us down if we are fruitless from not believing God, or fruitless from discarding the need for Jesus Christ, or fruitless from trampling on the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ prays on our behalf, “But he answered and said to him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.” Luke 13:8 That fertilizer of the heart comes at the Cross of Jesus Christ, and is spread by this verse, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 Everyone who believes in Jesus is a fruit that God is looking for, and we will receive the inheritance of eternal life, and not be cut down. “And if it bears fruit, well. But if not, after that you can cut it down.’” Luke 13:9

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11