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God's mercy
Therefore, since through
God's mercy we have this ministry,
we do not lose heart.
Rather, we have renounced
secret and shameful ways;
we do not use deception,
nor do we distort the word of God.
On the contrary, by setting forth
the truth plainly we commend
ourselves to every man's conscience
in the sight of God. 2 Corinthians 4:1,2
God‘s workers have been entrusted
with God's words by God's mercy
must not lose heart.
They should not do things in
secret or shameful; nor do they
deceiving or distorting
the words of God.
God's workers must share
the truth plainly and their lives
must be commendable to all
people's conscience before God.
God's workers life style is as such.
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 !