Yes, the university where the shooting occurred is the university my daughters attend. They are safe. Although it is a small campus of just 4500 students, they were in other buildings at the time. They are shaken, but will draw on the strength of the Lord. Let's pray for the family of the young man killed yesterday, as well as the families of the other injured, including the shooter. It's a tragedy. A young person's life was cut short so suddenly. And the lives of all involved will never be the same. May God use what the devil meant for evil, for His good. Amen.
1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife.2And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have been filled with grief and have put out of your fellowship the man who did this?3Even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. And I have already passed judgment on the one who did this, just as if I were present.4When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present,5hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord.6Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?7Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)
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The apostle blames the Corinthians for connivance at an incestuous person; (1-8) and directs their behaviour towards those guilty of scandalous crimes. (9-13)
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 5:1-8
The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that crimes should sometimes be committed by professors of the gospel, of which even heathens would be ashamed. Spiritual pride and false doctrines tend to bring in, and to spread such scandals. How dreadful the effects of sin! The devil reigns where Christ does not. And a man is in his kingdom, and under his power, when not in Christ. The bad example of a man of influence is very mischievous; it spreads far and wide. Corrupt principles and examples, if not corrected, would hurt the whole church. Believers must have new hearts, and lead new lives. Their common conversation and religious deeds must be holy. So far is the sacrifice of Christ our Passover for us, from rendering personal and public holiness unnecessary, that it furnishes powerful reasons and motives for it. Without holiness we can neither live by faith in him, nor join in his ordinances with comfort and profit."
Oh Lili. What a horrific day for all of you. I am lifting all of you up in prayer, as well as the victims and the shooter and all of their families.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kris.
DeleteWe'll find healing and strength through Jesus Christ. He alone can bring true comfort to the afflicted, to the mentally ill, to the victims of senseless violence, and to a broken world. When the world doesn't know what to say or what to do, as Christians, we know that our hope is in the Lord.
Thank you for your prayers, Kris.