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Only You
Now I am ready to visit you
for the third time, and
I will not be a burden to you,
because what I want is not
your possessions but you.
After all, children should not have
to save up for their parents,
but parents for their children.
So I will very gladly spend for you
everything I have and expend myself
as well. If I love you more,
will you love me less?
2 Corinthians 12:14,15
Yes, we can see what a love and
sacrifices of early disciples
poured out to build New Testament
Churches.
The Gospel of eternal life of
Savior Jesus has been delivered in
such a way to us now we are
entitled to be blessed.
The 2 Corinthians is the Apostle Paul's second letter to the
Corinthian Churches. Letter is the most intimate and personal.
Two thousand years ago, the Corinth city in Greece reminds
us today's New York city. The Corinth seaboard city was
then a center of trade, merchandize, wealth and luxury.
Also there was the Venus temple which led people not only
to moral deterioration but also sexual disaster.
The original location of Humanism, which against Creator God
and focus on human, the Corinth city in Greece lay in
spiritually formless, empty and darkness.
Here by God's mercy small lights began to shine. They were the
Lord Jesus' house Churches. They belong to the low social class.
Envious and jealous devil attempted to destroy God's
House Churches by questioning Paul's integrity and Apostleship.
And it caused to delay and complicate the promised loving
collection as well for the poverty stricken Jerusalem church.
It was the process of the life giving Gospel to us, and it
continues so. How beautiful are the feet those who
bring good news !