Coronavirus and the Tower of Siloam
 
Our Bible verse of the week is from Luke 13.  I would like for you to read the passage, then read what Pastor John MacArthur says about these verses.
 
Luke 13:1-5 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Matthew 18:21-35
21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?”

 
 
 
 
 
1 Peter 4:1-2  Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,  that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 
 
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In reference to these 2 verses, Pastor John MacArthur gives the following commentary...
 
Therefore

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Respect
 
Everyone wants respect for who they are. 
 
However, the question today is…   Do you respect others?  Particularly, how do you respect God - His Name, His Book, and His Son?
 
I have a list of rules at the Samson Dubina Table Tennis Academy.  For the most part, people are respecting my rules.  However, the one that isn’t being followed is the most important – don’t use God’s name in vain. 
 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. -Proverbs 3:5-6
 
So why do I read the Bible?  Why do I pray?  Why do I trust the Lord?
I can be so self deceived about the world, God, myself and many other things.  The Bible commands me not to trust in my deceitful heart but to trust in the Lord.  He can give me wisdom and guidance to guide my life far beyond what I'm capable of doing.  My prayer today is that God would direct my steps, all of them.

Philippians 3:7-9

But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith

 
Proverbs 3:13-22

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.  Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name,  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,  and that