No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.
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This is the word of God You may be seated Monsignor Oscar Romero stood as I stood today and many pastors and priests stood behind the altar of March of 1980. As he was preparing to offer his gift to his congregation a long gunman stood at the back of the chapel in San Salvador, fired a single shot, ripped through the body of Monsignor Romero. He fell to the ground, bled over the altar as he offered his gifts before his congregation. He died in the service of worship. He was an activist for the rights of those that were marginalized and oppressed. People depended upon him and now he lay dead and like his Lord had spilled his blood in the sacrifice of service. It was that kind of day when these Galileans reported what had taken place in Jerusalem. A similar situation where lives had been given in the service of God, offering their sacrifices to God. the only problem is is that when something like that happens it must be the result of something wrong that has been done jesus counted their statement by telling them of a story of a tower that had fallen over in a nearby town it was a recent event that was fresh on the memory of the people similar to the day that some of us awakened to the news when the champagne towers failed in South Florida and over a hundred residents died because of the negligence of management to give attention to the foundation that had weakened and the building had crumbled. The question then became …
… Jesus answered, do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you no, but unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those 18 who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think that they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you no, but unless you repent, you too will all perish. This is the word of God. You may be seated. One day a group of individuals came to Jesus and they were rather eager to report a gruesome tragedy that had taken in the precincts of Jerusalem. They were eyewitnesses to this particular atrocity. There were soldiers mandated by Pontius Pilate to come into the temple, draw their sword, and use it as a weapon against these worshipers who had to come to offer their sacrifices to God. Giving sacrifice is part of what worship is. you did it tonight sometimes we call it sacrifice of praise it's where you offer something to God and while they were offering their offerings to God these soldiers entered in drew their swords and mutilated the bodies of these worshipers but what was worse these Galilean commentators who were reporting to Jesus said is that the blood of the worshipers and the blood of the sacrifices mingled together into one common stream. It was a horrifying sacrilege for the blood of the sacrifice and the blood of the worshiper are not to commingle. The people that was given this report …
6. But which of these warriors all the while considered the wife of his youth, that is now left a disconsolate widow, — perhaps with none that careth for her; perhaps deprived of her only comfort and support, and not having where to lay her head? Who considered his helpless children, now desolate orphans, — it may be, crying for bread, while their mother has nothing left to give them but her sorrows and her tears? II. 1. And yet “these sheep, what have they done,” although all this is come upon them? “Suppose ye that they are sinners above other men, because they suffer such things? I tell you, Nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” It therefore behoves us to consider our own sins; — the cause of all our sufferings. It behoves each of us to say, “Lo, I have sinned; I have done wickedly.” 2. The time would fail, should I attempt to enumerate all the ways wherein we have sinned; but in general, this is certain: — How innumerable are the violations of justice among us! Who does not adopt the old maxim, Si possis, recte; si non, quocunque modo rem: “If you can get money honestly, do; but, however, get money?” Where is mercy to be found, if it would stand in opposition to interest? How few will scruple, for a valuable consideration, to oppress the widow or fatherless? And where shall we find truth? Deceit and fraud go not out of our streets. Who is it that speaks the truth from his heart? Whose words are the picture of his thoughts? Where is he that has “put away all lying,” that never speaks what he does not mean? Who is ashamed of this? Indeed it was once said, and even by a statesman, “All other vices have had their patrons; but lying is so base, so abominable a vice, that never was anyone found yet who dared openly to plead for it.” Would one imagine this writer lived in a Court? yea, and that in the present century? Did not he himself, then, as well as all his brother-statesmen, plead for a trade of deliberate lying? Did he not plead for the innocence, yea, and the necessity, of employing spies? — the vilest race of liars under the sun? Yet who ever scrupled using them, but Lord Clarendon? …
“O consider this, ye that forget God, lest he pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you!” (Ps. 50:22.) That iniquity may not be your ruin, repent! This is the Second advice I would offer you; or, rather, the First enforced upon you farther, and explained. Fear God, and depart from evil; repent, and bring forth fruits meet for repentance; break off our sins this moment. “Wash ye, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well,” saith the Lord. (Isa. :16, 17.) “Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3.) “Therefore now, saith the Lord,” who is not willing any should perish, “turn ye unto me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him?” (Joel 2:12–14.) “Who knoweth?” A question which should make you tremble. God is weighing you in the balance, and, as it were, considering whether to save or to destroy! “Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.” (Exod. 33:5.) …