Jesus came to "free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." (Hebrews 2: 15).
My friends, are you terrified of dying? Of being suddenly snuffed out of existence and disappearing forever? The word we share today is your Good News.
It is God's plan that Jesus Christ be like us in everything but sin; that He suffers and dies so that "he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil." Jesus broke the power of death by rising from the dead on the third day. He shows that we too must die but shall rise again. Dying and rising is what we sacramentally experience when we are baptized. We die when we are immersed into water. We rise from death when we are raised up again.
As a result of the power of this Sacrament, our faith and the word of God, every Christian should have no fear of death.
It is not only the fear of death that the devil causes us. He makes us to have unhealthy fears of poverty, ill health, etc. To overcome these fears, we have to die to money and worship of good health.
Remember Jesus in His Temptation in the Desert? He looked the devil in the eye and told him: "Man does not live on bread alone." (Matthew 4: 4). Man does not live on money alone. Man does not live on good health alone.
If you are able to do this, you will experience peace and freedom.
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