Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 9 verses 51 through 56:
51 Now it came to pass, when the time had come for Him to be received up, that He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. 53 But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. 54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?”
55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.
Just because it's in the Bible doesn't mean it's okay by Jesus.
There's lots of things in the Bible that Jesus did not do and that he explicitly taught his disciples not to do also.
Jesus never stoned anyone for adultery. He never gouged out an eye in return for an eye. And, as today's Lesson shows, he never burned anyone for heresy.
We can look to the Bible to justify all manner of retribution and punishment. But we can't drag Jesus' name into it, though history tells us we've sure tried
"What Would Jesus Do?" was a slogan running around our country 20 years ago. Here's another slogan for our consideration: "What Would Jesus Not Do?"
That should tell us something important also.
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