Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 23:13-22

The scribes and Pharisees were hypocrites; that is it in which all the rest of their bad characters are summed up. A hypocrite is a stage-player in religion (that is the primary signification of the word); he acts the part of one that he neither is nor may be, or perhaps the he neither is nor would be.

They are hypocrites because while they live, their religion is vain; when they die, their ruin is great. They are blind guides because they fall into the pit and they make those who follow them also fall in the pit. They guide the people to the wrong ends. They do not lead the people to the temple but to the gold; they do not guide the people to the altar but to the gifts.

வெளிவேடக்காரர் என்று இயேசு கூறும்போது அவர்களின் உள்ள தீய குணங்களையும் ஒட்டுமொத்தமாக கூறுகிறார். அவர்கள் மதத்தில் நடிக்கிறார்கள். அவர்கள் வழிகாட்டும் குருடர்கள். தவறான முடிவுகளுக்கு மக்களை இட்டுச்செல்கிறார்கள்: திருக்கோவிலுக்கு அல்ல மாறாக கோவிலில் உள்ள பொன் மீது@ பலிபீடத்திற்கு அல்ல மாறாக அதில் படைக்கப்பட்ட காணிக்கையின்மீது…

GOSPEL READING: Mt 16: 13-20

Man in his search for God, does not arrive at God completely. His search is limited. His search also is limited by his own knowledge of the past and the other religious persons. This is the reason why people consider Jesus to be Elijah, Jeremiah or one of the prophets. Their search could lead them till there only. Search is always limited and a search will never arrive at the complete truth.

Peter replied Jesus saying that he was the Messiah. This knowledge is the result of the revelation. It is not the fruit of his search rather it is given from above, from the Father. Jesus also affirms Peter and tells him that this knowledge is from God. When one possesses God’s revelation then he becomes the rock on which God’s activities are established.

The kingdom is built on the faith which rooted on revelation. Faith and revelation together form something like a rock which cannot be shaken. Any person who has his faith on the revelation is the person on whom the church is built. A man with faith on revelation cannot be overcome by any force. Nothing can prevail him. Such a person will be like an entry point into the kingdom of heaven. He will be the link between heaven and earth.

தேடலில் தெய்வத்தை காணலாம். ஆனால் கண்டிப்பாக திட்டவட்டமாக கடவுளை சென்றடைவோம் என்று சொல்லுவது கடிணம். ஆனால் கடவுள் தன்னையே வெளிப்படுத்தும்போது அது திட்டவட்டமானது தவறாதது. வெளிபடுத்துதலுக்கு நம்பிக்கை அவசியமானது அடித்தளமானது.