By H.H. Pope Shenouda III
You Have The Power To Bind And Loose In Heaven:
If you are reasonably exalted because the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to the Father to prepare for you a place in heaven and will come again to take you, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Matt. 25:34), would you not rather be exalted because He gives you the keys of the Kingdom! For the Lord said, "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Matt. 18:18) Moreover, He gives you the authority to forgive or not. {This authority of course is given to the priests. But the priest is a man and this article speaks about man as a human being whatever his role may be and whatever generation he may belong to.}
