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The Boston Bombs/the Tower of Siloam

What would Jesus have to say about the events in Boston? We must remember God is not an absentee landlord. He is in control of all things that happen. Evil men who perpetrate these horrors are in league with the Devil, but always ultimately God is in control. Of course we care about those who have died and been injured and our sympathies are with their loved ones, but there is something very important for us to learn from this. Well we do know exactly what Jesus would have said about this event. We find something similar happened in Luke 13. People asked Jesus if the 18 people who died when the tower at Siloam fell were more wicked than other people. Jesus didn’t say that they were not sinners or that it didn’t matter. He said that they were not worse than the rest of us but that we too would die in a similar fashion, if we did not repent of our sin. The main message is that we are all sinners and we need to repent and put our trust in Jesus alone. In another bible story we find that a king’s son died young because there was some good found in him that could not be found in the rest of his family. He died so that he would not have to go through the judgment the rest of his family received. Read about it in 1 Kings 13v14. This is a very difficult time for some of you, but we need to come to God in repentance, otherwise we must face his judgment and wrath. He is a God who is willing to forgive all who will come to him in Christ, but this is the only way to escape His wrath.

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