Breaking the Word

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.

GOSPEL READING: Mt 23:1-12

The scribes and Pharisees are leaders. As leaders they present the crowds with lots of rules, regulations, and traditions. But they themselves do not practice those rules etc. They multiply external practices. They believed that the external practices will reveal the internal dispositions. But in their cases the externals only revealed the internal pretentions.

Followers of Jesus should all be brothers. They should all belong to one family to which God is the only father and they do not impose rules on others and play the role of a master. There is only one teacher and that is Jesus the Messiah. Service is the only way to express all these. Service to the other is the only thing that links the followers of Jesus with one another.

ஒருவருக்கொருவர் பணிசெய்வதே சீடருக்கான அடையாளம். சட்டங்கள் ஒழுங்குகள் சீடத்துவத்திற்கான அடையாளம் அல்ல.