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                    Let us purify ourselves

    

Since we have these promises,

dear friends, let us purify ourselves

from everything that contaminates

body and spirit, perfecting holiness

out of reverence for God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

 

 

 

God's children who have

the promise of eternity should be

holy because we reverence God.

We must purify ourself and

be very careful not to be

contaminated our body and spirit.

  

Holy is the glory of God.

 

 

 

 

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 !