Fidelity

Boniface

Gospel Mk 12:18-27

Some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection,
came to Jesus and put this question to him, saying,
"Teacher, Moses wrote for us,
If someone's brother dies, leaving a wife but no child,
his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.
Now there were seven brothers.
The first married a woman and died, leaving no descendants.
So the second brother married her and died, leaving no descendants,
and the third likewise.
And the seven left no descendants.
Last of all the woman also died.
At the resurrection when they arise whose wife will she be?
For all seven had been married to her."
Jesus said to them, "Are you not misled
because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God?
When they rise from the dead,
they neither marry nor are given in marriage,
but they are like the angels in heaven.
As for the dead being raised,
have you not read in the Book of Moses,
in the passage about the bush, how God told him,
I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob?
He is not God of the dead but of the living.
You are greatly misled."

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Even if a man did as these people suggest, the offspring of their actions would be their own, and not their brothers. The brothers offspring would be the offspring of a man not his brother. What else are people proposing that makes no sense? What people propose frequently makes no sense, which is why it is called nonsense.

You have the Gospels written for you, and the opinions of others do not have any bearing on the truth because the truth is God's word, and no one has the right to ridicule it or  abrogate it.

People, do not be misled thinking you can think and do as you please and live. Freedom is frequently abolished and taken away, and you serve others because you were unfaithful to God. The only fitting remedy is to believe in Jesus Christ who is God and Lord, and to repudiate whoever would plant others in the Lord's field.

Since believing frequently results in death because someone else thinks they are god, it follows that you have no continuity in God if you do not believe. There are many ready to take your life from you because you will not believe in their nonsensical god.

Be prepared to give an accounting to God who has the right to demand your life. It has been an occasion of much bitterness, that a man spent his whole life trying to do his own will, blithely ignoring the duty to do and pursue and to know the Will of God. You will make your accounting to God, not to men, but if you are faithful to God and allow others to take your life, who is your god?

If I am killed by anyone, let it be known that I served the Lord, and not whoever took my life. God made me, and He gave me life, and so I serve Him, and no one else. No one has the right to demand my life of me but the Lord Our God. and anyone who attempts to take the life of another is in sin, grave sin. That this century has been bloody no one can deny, because it is the truth. Those who acted as if they were god were already deranged, and did not make sense and lost the power of reason. They were acting reasonably who submitted to death to serve the Lord and to make a testimony to Him with the gift of their life. They returned to God what God had given them and were known as martyrs, which is to say, witnesses to Jesus.

The kindness of the Lord is outstanding, and those who served Him knew His gentle love and were not ashamed to serve Him. Likewise, those who met their end through violence were known for their gentleness and kindness, animated by love as they were.

Pray for peace, and it will be given you, and if anyone take away your peace and quiet, be diligent in asking God to return your peace and quiet to you. Use your peace and quiet to love the Lord and know Him, and you will serve Him.