So am I

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To my shame I admit that we were

too weak for that!

What anyone else dares to boast about--

I am speaking as a fool--

I also dare to boast about.

Are they Hebrews? So am I.

Are they Israelites? So am I.

Are they Abraham's descendants?

So am I. 2 Corinthians 11:21,22

Apostle Paul was somebody that

any parents desire their children to be.

In contemporary terms he had

8 Ph.Ds from Ivy leagues, was

wealthy aristocrat, religiously ardent

with fervor for justice and

possibly congressman as lawyer.

He sure had a promised future although

seemed to be not hansom looking.

Once Jesus came to meet him,

he regarded all his fortunes as excreta.

Knowing Jesus Christ is superbly

precious to him.

Now he had to unwillingly reveal

himself when his authenticity of

apostleship was suspected from

those whom he brought to

the eternal life of Jesus and nurtured.

To let Jesus to be known,

his life was dealt like a scum of

this world.

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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 !