Mark 10:45
“For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting.
“I just caught the world full of people down there. Used bait I knew they couldn’t resist and got ‘em all!”
“What are you going to do with them?” Jesus asked.
“Oh, I’m gonna have fun! I’m gonna teach them how to marry and divorce. How to hate and abuse each other. How to drink and smoke and curse. How to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I’m really gonna have fun!”
“And what will you do when you get done with them?” Jesus asked.
“Oh, I’ll kill ‘em.”
“How much do you want for them?” Jesus then asked again.
“Oh, you don’t want those people. They ain’t no good. Why, you’ll take them and they’ll just hate you. They’ll spit on you, curse you and kill you!! You don’t want those people!!!”
“How much?” Jesus insisted
Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, “Your life.”
Jesus paid the price and gave His life as a ransom for many.
Let us pray +
Almighty Father, help me choose the right words and the right actions so I may resist temptations. I don’t want to be forever in the mercy of death, so I continually seek for Your love and forgiveness. Teach me to turn from my wicked ways and finally, sin no more.
He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly runs his word!
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