Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Nobody wants one living next door, nor within 2000 feet of a school. They are worse pariahs than lepers in Bible times who had to keep away from people and shout “Unclean!” whenever anyone came near. These untouchables today are our “sex offenders,” and the very worst are the wicked men who murder innocent little girls.
The “Jessica Law” on our ballot in
How could they do such crimes? It’s hard to imagine unless it’s devil possession.
Is there any hope for them? Legal experience tends to say No. The recidivism rate is high.
Could there be among these incarcerated criminals one whose heart might possibly respond to the divine “Savior of the world” (John
Such would forever hate himself for yielding to do what he did; could one have been saved if in childhood he had heard the proclamation of “the faith of Jesus” how Christ in His incarnation had the same battles with temptation that we have, how He said “I seek not My own will but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 5:30)? Even as a child He made that choice to “bear His cross” in self-denial! Yes, Christ always bore His cross on which self was crucified. And He would teach us to do so too, even as children.
Many have been deprived of this glimpse of the true Christ. The view that He took a different nature than ours has prevailed so nearly universally that multitudes have never learned how to say “No!” to self. And when “self” learns to have its way, the end can be horrible.
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