Each week we read of a tragedy  ‐    war, hatred, jealousy, murder and war — so much of pain and sorrow — every week so much of evil.    We have to fight against evil – not a human fight but a godly fight.

Jesus fought against evil, but he did not fight the way humans tend to fight. He fed the hungry, He healed the sick, He cast out demons and He taught against religious oppression. Jesus did not try to stop all evils through force. He did not suggest that we need better police or better defense systems. But Jesus gave us a more fundamental weapon : repentance.

Jesus died on the cross for our sins  ‐ so we should repent of our sins, be cleansed and come before God. If we have attitudes of jealousy or anger we have already committed murder in our hearts. We need to be shocked by the wrong attitudes within ourselves. When the results of sin are made so clear, what we need to do is repent. The only way we can overcome evil is to deal
with it within ourselves