When We Follow Jesus, Reflect Him, Walk With Him, Live Like Him, We Have Protection from Satan! Jesus is Stronger then the Devil!

Whoever does the will of God is the brother, sister, mother, family of Jesus! We need to do the will of God in our lives! We need to obey Him, follow the teachings of Jesus, follow Him, reflect Him, love like Him, be like Him on this Earth School journey! Jesus is very clear about all of this in the Gospel reading this week. We need to turn from sin! All sin! Stop all the blaming, shaming, and alienation from God and do what is wrong, instead stay in Spirit with Jesus and not sin. Today many do not take sin seriously. They cheat, steal, lie, kill, hurt others and themselves, they are selfish, greedy, corrupt, self-serving, and immoral. Mostly from our elected, governments, and powers that be, they are the worst examples of how to be, that is why they do not want us to follow or worship Jesus.  There is so much sin today, too much! We are part of the family of Jesus when we do the will of God. God wants us to obey Him, to follow His Commandments, the teachings of Jesus, to be people of goodwill in this life. We are given free will, choice, we can either follow Him or not, it is our choice, but so often when we neglect or do not include Jesus in our lives, we run a life of misfortune and problems. Honestly, we just need Jesus like the song says! Adam and Eve learned the hard way, they were the first. Today, so many blame others, they shame, they do not take personal responsibility for what they do, they sin and do many evil acts. The one thing God gave us was Jesus, our Savior, He is our protector from all in this Earth School sin and temptation, from Satan. When we follow Jesus we have protection from Satan, who wants us to be his slaves. We do not have to be locked in the basement of slavery with Satan doing his dirty deeds too, we can follow Jesus instead, knowing we have His protect from any problems we may face here. Jesus is stronger than the devil, He defeated the devil on the cross, look what they did to Jesus on the cross, Jesus lived, and we can too. Trust and follow Jesus! With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption! What a blessing! The second reading also reminds us that, "For we know that if our earthly dwelling, a tent, should be destroyed, we have a building from God, a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven."  What a God we serve, we have a wonderful family in Jesus, when we follow Him and do His will! 

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1
Genesis 3:9-15
After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree,
the LORD God called to the man and asked him, "Where are you?"
He answered, "I heard you in the garden;
but I was afraid, because I was naked,
so I hid myself."
Then he asked, "Who told you that you were naked?
You have eaten, then,
from the tree of which I had forbidden you to eat!"
The man replied, "The woman whom you put here with me—
she gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it."
The LORD God then asked the woman,
"Why did you do such a thing?"
The woman answered, "The serpent tricked me into it, so I ate it."
Then the LORD God said to the serpent:
"Because you have done this, you shall be banned
from all the animals
and from all the wild creatures;
on your belly shall you crawl,
and dirt shall you eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike at your head,
while you strike at his heel."

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
R. (7bc) With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
LORD, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to my voice in supplication.
R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.
If you, O LORD, mark iniquities,
LORD, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness,
that you may be revered.
R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.
I trust in the LORD;
my soul trusts in his word.
More than sentinels wait for the dawn,
let Israel wait for the LORD.
R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.
For with the LORD is kindness
and with him is plenteous redemption
and he will redeem Israel
from all their iniquities.
R. With the Lord there is mercy, and fullness of redemption.

Reading 2
2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1
Brothers and sisters:
Since we have the same spirit of faith,
according to what is written, I believed, therefore I spoke,
we too believe and therefore we speak,
knowing that the one who raised the Lord Jesus
will raise us also with Jesus
and place us with you in his presence.
Everything indeed is for you,
so that the grace bestowed in abundance on more and more people
may cause the thanksgiving to overflow for the glory of God.
Therefore, we are not discouraged;
rather, although our outer self is wasting away,
our inner self is being renewed day by day.
For this momentary light affliction
is producing for us an eternal weight of glory
beyond all comparison,
as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen;
for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.
For we know that if our earthly dwelling, a tent,
should be destroyed,
we have a building from God,
a dwelling not made with hands, eternal in heaven.

Alleluia
John 12:31b-32
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Now the ruler of the world will be driven out, says the Lord;
and when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
Mark 3:20-35
Jesus came home with his disciples.
Again the crowd gathered,
making it impossible for them even to eat.
When his relatives heard of this they set out to seize him,
for they said, "He is out of his mind."
The scribes who had come from Jerusalem said,
"He is possessed by Beelzebul,"
and "By the prince of demons he drives out demons."
Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables,
"How can Satan drive out Satan?
If a kingdom is divided against itself,
that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house is divided against itself,
that house will not be able to stand.
And if Satan has risen up against himself
and is divided, he cannot stand;
that is the end of him.
But no one can enter a strong man's house to plunder his property
unless he first ties up the strong man.
Then he can plunder the house.
Amen, I say to you,
all sins and all blasphemies that people utter will be
forgiven them.
But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit
will never have forgiveness,
but is guilty of an everlasting sin."
For they had said, "He has an unclean spirit."
His mother and his brothers arrived.
Standing outside they sent word to him and called him.
A crowd seated around him told him,
"Your mother and your brothers and your sisters
are outside asking for you."
But he said to them in reply,
"Who are my mother and my brothers?"
And looking around at those seated in the circle he said,
"Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of God
is my brother and sister and mother."