There were present at that season some who told Him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answered and said to them, “Do you suppose that these Galileans were worse sinners than all other Galileans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse sinners than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, no; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.”
Luke 13:1-5
Are you in bondage to pornography because you believe other men are deserving of God’s wrath more than you are? Do you return to your sexual immorality day after day because you believe your sin is not as bad as the next guy’s? Do you make excuses for your sin, justify your sexual immorality, and refuse to forsake pornography because you believe all of your future sins are already forgiven? Then the warning that Jesus spoke 2,000 years ago is for you today.
Unless you repent, you will likewise perish.
Unless you repent, you should expect a calamity to fall upon you that’s just as bad as the calamity that will fall upon other sexually immoral men. The people who came to Jesus on this occasion thought that the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices must have been extraordinary sinners to deserve such extraordinary punishment. But Jesus told them, unless you repent, you shall likewise perish, that is, you shall perish in a similar manner.
Repentance, of course, is a change of mind. To repent means to think differently, to reconsider your thoughts and beliefs. In view is a 180-degree turn away from sin towards the Savior. Repentance is not to be confused with simple remorse, or feeling sorry for sin. New Testament repentance means a changed mind evidenced by a changed life.
If you want to escape God’s wrath against sexual immorality (porn keeps you out of the kingdom of God), change your mind about your sin. Don’t compare yourself with others. Don’t imagine that there are men who are more wicked than you, and that God will overlook your sin somehow because you are better by comparison. The Jews of Jesus’ day were mistaken. They thought they didn’t need to repent, so they didn’t. And they likewise perished, just as Jesus predicted:
For there was a remarkable resemblance between the fate of these Galileans, and that of the main body of the Jewish nation; the flower of which was slain at Jerusalem by the Roman sword, or by the falling of walls and towers, while they were assembled at one of their great festivals: and many thousands of them perished in the temple itself, and, as their own historian relates, were literally buried under its ruins. Many, who came from far to attend the Passover, fell before their sacrifices; and when Titus took the city a multitude of dead bodies lay round the altar.
Benson Commentary, Luke 13:1-3
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