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)...
Day 28: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Seemingly foolish and weak in the eyes of people Paul advises the saints of the Corinthian church to remember when they first heard and believed in the gospel of Jesus Christ and His crucifixion (1 Cor. 1:26). This is because when they received the gospel of Jesus and accepted Him as their Savior, they appeared foolish and weak in the eyes of the world. The majority of the saints in the Corinthian church had converted not because of their outward superiority, but rather, Paul points out, it was due to their lack of it (Yoon-seon Park). Instead, Paul states that God chose the foolish things of the world, the weak things of the world, the base things of the world, and the despised things—things considered nothing—in order to nullify the things that are (vv. 27-28). Why did God choose such individuals to hear the gospel of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ a...