The Loving Programmer’s Old Testament Marketing Plan included The Book of Sirach and six other Books of The Apocrypha.
They were kept in The Loving Programmer’s New Testament Marketing Plan. It was Downloaded when He Who Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies spoke One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church Into Being with His Church-Creating Word to His First Catholic Pope: “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.'”
Catholics are blessed to download insights from The Loving Programmer’s Old Testament Marketing Plan. We see that Sirach 27:30-28:7 has warned us for 2,000 years:
“Wrath and anger are hateful things, yet the sinner hugs them tight. The vengeful will suffer the LORD’s vengeance, for He remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor’s injustice; then, when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.”
Catholics read God’s Old Testament Marketing Plan and ask:
Sirach’s Question #1. “Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the LORD?”
Sirach’s Question #2: “Could anyone nourish anger against another and expect healing from the LORD?”
Sirach’s Question #3: “Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself and seek pardon for his own sins?”
Sirach’s Question #4: “If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins?”
Sirach’s questions help us understand Today’s Psalm 103: 1-4, 9-12 and focus on the fact that “The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion… Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits… He pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills, redeems your life from destruction… As far as the east is from the west, he puts our transgressions from us.”
Paul explains in The Loving Programmer’s New Testament Marketing Plan why Jesus Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies by dying for us in his Letter to the Romans, 14:7-9,
“Brothers and sisters: ‘None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself. For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord; so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For this is why Christ died and came to life, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.'”
All Christians are blessed to see The Promise from He Who Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies in Matthew 18:21-35 about a man whose debts were forgiven but who refused to forgive debts owed to him! “Instead, he had the fellow servant put in prison until he paid back the debt.”
What happened when others saw the forgiven man’s self-serving hypocrisy? “When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were deeply disturbed and went to their master and reported the whole affair.”
“His master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity on you?'”
Catholics are blessed to see what happens to those who use Christianity as a means of gain while keeping others from “Being as Catholic as they can!”
“Then, in anger, his master handed him over to the torturers until he should pay back the whole debt.” (Catholics have a “new idea” and ask: “Is hell where electrons of agony are endlessly torn from photons of tortured souls?”)
Then, He Who Fulfilled the Messianic Prophecies made us this promise: “So will My Heavenly Father do to you, unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart.'”
May all be blessed to “Be as Catholic as we can!” May we forgive those who want us to spend our lives as childless, over-taxed slaves. May we forgive our oppressors, have children who will join in our prayers for us and them, and have all of our immortal souls be quickly among the souls in Heaven blessed with what Jesus died to leave us: “I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.'”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “How can we live? We must forgive.”
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