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God made him who had no sin

to be sin for us, so that in him

we might become the righteousness

of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21

How could this be?

There were some 60 students in

my junior high school class.

In a home management class,

girls yak yak and the teacher

squealed to be quiet in vain.

Finally she called a number to

stand up and the number was mine.

I was busy studying in the noise.

Suddenly the room was quiet

and tears flow on my cheeks.

For men God's righteousness is

on one payment that is he made

his only son without sin to take

the penalty of sin, shame, fear,

loss and death instead of men.

God considers me righteous only

on one condition that I believe

his son Jesus redemption for me.

How could this be . . !

Oh yes, my teacher was sorry till

my graduation though didn't say.

I presume such a method was

her final.

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 !