At that time Jesus said to the people gathered in the synagogue at Nazareth: Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his homeland. They heard it, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath, and rose up, drove him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built there to cast him down headlong . But he passing through the midst of them , went away. ( Luke 4, 28-30) From its very birth the Son of God is exposed to the dangers that his mission in the world can have .... He who created the world freeing it from chaos, comes to live in the midst of the contradictions of our society .... We are men who by sin have organized ourselves outside the Will of God ... Since ancient times The Lord sent the prophets to Israel calling the people who come to this world to act according to God ... But people often preferred to follow the dictates of their own selfishness , instead of obeying the mysterious designs of God ... The Lord Jesus had a mission entrusted by his Holy Father in heaven , to redeem humanity ... But before this plan of salvation , the infernal hosts , were aimed against so it does not take place ... To the hellish hosts are usually associated many men who attack the saving work of God in us and kill the Prophets .... Jesus was exposed to all these dangers from the same persecution of Herod against the birth of a king who threatened his power ... The Prophet Simeon at the scene of the presentation of Jesus at the Temple early foresaw the sufferings of the Redeemer ... The Gospel passage that Saint Luke presents us today in the Synagogue of Nazareth at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus shows us this reality ... The inhabitants of Nazareth , where Jesus was raised by his parents from Child want to jeopardize his Messianic work .... They even go as far as to assault him to put his own life in danger .... But its really not the hour yet come when Jesus should be offered as a burnt offering to the forgiveness of the sins of mankind .... It is right and necesary that Jesus pass Teaching in a while , in the towns and clearing along , width and height of Palestine ... After a good time to be teaching the Law and the Prophets , according to a comprehensive vision, based on Love the Lord He should be offered .... That hour is the hour of the Cross, in which the Lord offers himself as the Lamb without blemish for purification of Man and the World ... Only if by faith in Jesus dead and risen, we are reborn of water and the Spirit , we can enter the kingdom of heaven ... In Baptism Christians paid for our sins when we join Christ in his death ... In Baptism Christians obtain the grace of eternal life when we join Christ in his resurrection .... In Baptism Christ participates us, poor sinners , condemned to eternal death , his victory over the infernal hosts ....
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