Unless You Repent!
LUKE (13: 1-5)
God wants us to repent from our sinful behavior and acts so that we may live long on earth. The following are the verses from Luke 13 that conveys a conversation between Jesus and those who were standing around him:
- Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate, the Governor of Jerusalem had mixed with their sacrifices
- Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this way?
- I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish
- Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them – do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?
- I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
From the above verses, we can conclude the following:
- People suffer and die because of their sin.
- There is no need to compare sinners – one with another.
- Every sinner – whether he is less guilty or more guilty – he must repent, or else he will be punished.
- A sinner – whether he is a gentile (Galilean) or a Jew (citizen of Jerusalem) – he will be punished, if he sins against God.
- God doesn't show favoritism. But He is a merciful and compassionate God, who accepts and cleanses a sinner from all his unrighteousness, if only he repents.
