“Repent Or Perish!”

“Repent Or Perish!” (Lk.13:1-5).
Job’s friend Elipaz in typical Jewish mentality considered that the innocent are never punished and the blameless are never destroyed. But those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it (Job 4:7-8).
This kind of thinking has not changed. When AIDS was still very scary, there were those who considered that those who had AIDS were punished for their sexual waywardness.
There is physical death, spiritual death and the second death. Physical death came into the world through the sin of Adam which caused humanbeings to become mortal. Those who live to gratify the flesh are spiritually dead, even though they are physically alive.
The second death will be the fate of those who are spiritually dead in the physical and do not want to repent.
The living are not better than those who have died. When some people told Jesus about some Galileans whom Pilate killed and their blood was mixed with the blood of animals they were offering as sacrifice, 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…”
Those who have died are not the worse of sinners than the living. But if those who are alive and are spiritually dead fail to repent, they will perish in the second death that happens on judgment day. Therefore, repent or perish!
Weekend prayer: Lord Jesus Christ I come to you with a contrite and penitent heart. Cleanse me and come into my life. Amen!
Have a blessed weekend! Peace be with you!
Rev. Babila Fochang.