“Remember Lot’s Wife”: The Lord Solemnly Warns, Through a Historical Event, of the Danger of “Spiritual Double-Mindedness” (Lingering Attachment to the World) into Which Believers Living in the Last Days Can Easily Fall “On that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will keep it alive. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding together; one will be taken and the other left. And they answered and said to Him, ‘Lord, where?’ And He said to them, ‘Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered.’” (Luke 17:31–37) (1) After reading today’s passage, Luke 17:31–37, first in the Korean Bible and then in th...
Fleeing Jesus [Matthew 2:13-18] The gospel is Jesus Christ. The heart of the gospel is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So, in order to know more about the gospel of Jesus Christ and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the core of the gospel, we meditated eight times under the heading “The Word became flesh” centered on the words of John 1:1-4, 9-14. Who is Jesus Christ? He is the One from the beginning (Jn. 1:1), and was with God, so Jesus Christ is God (v. 1), the Creator of all things (v. 3). There is life, the light of man, in Jesus Christ (v. 4). What was the purpose of Jesus Christ becoming a man [“the Word became flesh” (v. 14)]? It was to dwell among us. Look at John 1:14a – “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, ….” Also, it was t...