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*Overcoming Evil with Good*
*a Response to the Virgina Tech Massacre*
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/April 20, 2007/
/Do not be overcome by evil,/
/but overcome evil with good./
\\ *Romans 12:9-21*
/9//Love must be sincere./
/Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
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/10//Be devoted to one another in brotherly love.
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/Honor one another above yourselves.
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/11//Never be lacking in zeal, /
/but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord./
/12//Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
13Share with God's people who are in need.
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/Practice hospitality.
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/14//Bless those who persecute you; /
/bless and do not curse.
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/15//Rejoice with those who rejoice; /
/mourn with those who mourn.
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/16//Live in harmony with one another.
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/Do not be proud, /
/but be willing to associate with people of low position.
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/Do not be conceited.
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/17//Do not repay anyone evil for evil./
/Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.
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/18//If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, /
/live at peace with everyone.
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/19//Do not take revenge, my friends, /
/but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: /
/“It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”says the Lord.
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/20//On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; /
/if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
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/In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”/
/21//Do not be overcome by evil, /
/but overcome evil with good.
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The tragedy of the mass murder at Virginia Tech
has been a great shock to all of us.
We are stunned.
We grieve for the families whose 32 young people
have been killed.
The sense of tragedy overwhelms us all.
We can hardly imagine their pain and suffering
and immeasurable grief
in the loss of so many young adults.
We grieve for them all.
From the beginning of the Biblical story
violence and evil been part of the story...
Cain killing his brother Able…
Josephs brothers selling him off…
David killing Uriah after sleeping with his wife…
From the story of Noah we read in Genesis 6:11,
/“The earth was corrupt in the eyes of God /
/and was full of violence.”
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Proverbs 24:6 says,
/“Their hearts plot violence /
/and their lips talk about making trouble.”
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In Psalm 140:1 the writer cries out to God,
/”Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men; /
/protect me from men of violence.”
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In John 10, where Jesus refers to himself
as the Good Shepherd, we read,
/“Anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate /
/is a thief and a robber.
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/The thief /only/ comes to steal and /kill /and /destroy/; /
/I have come that they may have life /
/and have it more abundantly.”
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In Biblical times,
a sheep pen was considered to be a safe place,
the way schools are considered to be safe places.
When the sheep are in the pen,
they are thought to be safe for the night,
and when kids are in a school,
they are thought to be safe.
But the Bible says a thief slips in only
to steal and kill and destroy.
That sounds like exactly what happened
at Columbine High School eight years ago
and in a class room at Virginia Tech this past week.
Someone possessed by evil slipped in only
to steal and kill and destroy.
They had no other purpose.
But Jesus is just the opposite:
Jesus comes to bring not only life,
but abundant life.
Jesus wants us not only to experience life
but the fullness of life that God intends for us.
Schools are to be safe places,
but schools have become places of violence.
That violence is felt by students in many different ways.
Edward Marquart says that
there have been 40 public school mass shootings
during the past 40 years
and 30 of those mass shootings have occurred
in public schools in the US.
Get this,
“The Center for Disease Control reported in 2002
that there had been 220 school-related shootings
from 1994 to 1999, resulting in 253 deaths.”
A lot of the research for today’s message
comes from the US…
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