35 When Abimelech and his men saw Gaal come out and stand at the city gate, they got up from their hiding places.
Then when Gaal and his men come out against you, hit them with all you've got!”ģ4 So Abimelech and all his men made their move at night and hid outside Shechem in four groups. 33 Get up tomorrow morning at sunrise and make a sudden attack on the city. 32 Now then, you and your men should move by night and hide in the fields. 31 He sent messengers to Abimelech at Arumah to say, “Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem, and they are not going to let you into the city.
28 Gaal said, “What kind of men are we in Shechem? Why are we serving Abimelech? Who is he, anyway? The son of Gideon! And Zebul takes orders from him, but why should we serve him? Be loyal to your ancestor Hamor, who founded your clan! 29 I wish I were leading this people! I would get rid of Abimelech! I would tell him, ‘Reinforce your army, come on out and fight!’”ģ0 Zebul, the ruler of the city, became angry when he heard what Gaal had said. They went into the temple of their god, where they ate and drank and made fun of Abimelech. 27 They all went out into their vineyards and picked the grapes, made wine from them, and held a festival. Abimelech was told about this.Ģ6 Then Gaal son of Ebed came to Shechem with his brothers, and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him. 25 The men of Shechem put men in ambush against Abimelech on the mountaintops, and they robbed everyone who passed their way. 24 This happened so that Abimelech and the men of Shechem, who encouraged him to murder Gideon's seventy sons, would pay for their crime. 23 Then God made Abimelech and the men of Shechem hostile to each other, and they rebelled against Abimelech. James with faithfulness and fortitude.22 Abimelech ruled Israel for three years. He beheaded James the brother of John" (Acts 12:1-2). "During that period, King Herod started to harass some of the members of the church. "Such is the case with the Son of Man Who has come, not to be served by others, but to serve, to give His own life as a ransom for the many." –Mt 20:28 James, pray for the death of the culture of death.
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PRAYER:įather, teach me how to die in love. We have been baptized into Jesus' death so as to share in His Resurrection (Rm 6:3, 5).Ī friend of mine has a saying: "You're not done dying till you're dead." Die to self in Christ and in love. While we live we are constantly being delivered to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be revealed" (2 Cor 4:10-11). "Continually we carry about in our bodies the dying of Jesus, so that in our bodies the life of Jesus may also be revealed.
Jesus' death on the cross resulted in the ultimate and total victory of risen life over death.Ĭonsequently, in love let us fall "to the earth" and die so as to produce "much fruit" (Jn 12:24). In fact, Jesus' crucified love is more stern than death. The writer of Song of Songs proclaims: "Stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion" (Sg 8:6). (We pray that this death of the culture of death will occur as soon as possible so that fewer people will be traumatized.) Death as a work of the evil one will be destroyed by another kind of death - a loving death to self in the pattern of Jesus' death on the cross (see Phil 3:10). Our culture of death will eventually be true to its name and die out. One Bread, One Body - Reflection for JTHE DEATH OF DEATH "Death is at work in us, but life in you." –2 Corinthians 4:12
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