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How would Jesus Christ respond to school shootings?
Though Jesus is currently interceding on our behalf at the right hand of the father (Romans 8:34). We can only imagine how he must react to seeing believers and those whom his father created being slain on school grounds. In so we believe that for both the believer and the non-believer his reaction is the same. For both are loved by the father, who causes rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous (Matthew 5:45). Yet we cannot help but notice the similarities between the responses from both believers and nonbelievers.
"Jesus wept." (John 11:35)
Jesus knew what was going to happen to Lazarus, the brother of Mary Magdalene. For he told his disciples that "this sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it." (John 11:4). Yet when he saw Mary and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. Then "Jesus wept". (35). We believe that Jesus weeps with the victims families, who have lost sons, daughters, wives, husbands, co-workers and friends. Yet note the two different reactions:
Reaction #1.) "Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
Reaction #2.) "But some of them said,"Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
Time and again we have seen the second reaction repeat itself
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