The One Who Receives the Greatest Grace May Be the Most in Danger “Woe to you, Chorazin ! Woe to you, Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon , they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum , will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades . The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and the one who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me” (Luke 10:13–16). (1) Today, I would like to meditate on the lesson given through Luke 10:13–16 , together with its parallel passage, Matthew 11:20–24: (a) First, Jesus rebuked the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent (Mt. 11:20)...
Gethsemane Prayer (3) [Luke 22:39-46] As we think about the things before and after Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane, I hope and pray that we will be convinced that Jesus loved His people to the end. Look at John 13:1 – “ Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.” This word means that Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to return to heaven after coming from heaven, and He loved His people in this world and loved them to the end. These are the events that took place before Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane (there was Holy Communion before Passover and what happened at this banq...