May we all be blessed to let Words of Jesus keep our minds and souls free from “unholy vanity”.
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Question 1: “Does Jesus tell us where ‘unholy vanity’ comes from?”
Answer: “Jesus makes that very clear in Today’s Reading, Mt 17:14-20. ‘A man came up to Jesus, knelt down before Him, and said, ‘Lord, have pity on my son, who is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water. I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.’”
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Question 2: “Where does the ‘unholy vanity’ that drives people to become ‘suffering lunatics’ who throw themselves into fire and water come from?”
Answer: “‘Jesus said in reply, ‘O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring the boy here to me. Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured.’”
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Question 3: “Did the boy’s destructive ‘unholy vanity’ come from a demon in his mind?”
Answer: “Yes. The Disciples had a question. ‘Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said, ‘Why could we not drive it out?’”
Jesus explained the simple truth! ‘He said to them, ‘Because of your little faith.’”
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Question 4: “How did their ‘little faith’ keep them from ‘driving the demon out’?”
Answer: “They did not have enough faith to drive out the evil demon in the boy’s mind that confused him with so much ‘unholy vanity’ that he would ‘throw himself into fire and water’.”
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Question 5: “Did Jesus tell His Disciples how they could cure people from demons that made them hate themselves, their neighbors, goodness, and God?”
Answer: “He told them to ask God to increase their faith in Him! ‘Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.’”
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Question 6: “Do demons lead the minds to believe the same ‘unholy vanity’?”
Answer: “Demons lead every person they can to believe the same ‘unholy vanity’! ‘I know more than Jesus about good and evil. Therefore, I must love my opinions more than God and my neighbors.’”
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Question 7: “Do demons drive people to the ‘unholy vanity’ that keeps their souls from having the only ‘keys to The Kingdom of Heaven’ that Jesus gave to The Church He Spoke Into Being with His Holy Word?”
Answer: “Every demon tries to confuse all who believe This Church-Creating Word from Jesus Christ! ‘And I say unto you, thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’
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