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Ask a QuestionI am telling you this so no one will deceive you with well-crafted arguments.
I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
So listen to me, and let me tell you what I think.
But everyone knows that you are obedient to the Lord. This makes me very happy. I want you to be wise in doing right and to stay innocent of any wrong.
But how? Did any of the men I sent to you take advantage of you?
You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences.
The only thing I failed to do, which I do in the other churches, was to become a financial burden to you. Please forgive me for this wrong!
“‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’ But I say he should punish the ones who sin, so that they understand his judgment.
The Lord says, “I was ready to respond, but no one asked for help. I was ready to be found, but no one was looking for me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name.
But while I was busy doing something else, the prisoner disappeared!” “Well, it’s your own fault,” the king replied. “You have brought the judgment on yourself.”
I heard what he said, but I did not understand what he meant. So I asked, “How will all this finally end, my lord?”
While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn’t care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all my charges against you.
I wish I were with you right now so I could change my tone. But at this distance I don’t know how else to help you.
Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this, even to be humiliated in my own eyes! But those servant girls you mentioned will indeed think I am distinguished!”
Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God.
I am telling you what I saw when I was with my Father. But you are following the advice of your father.”
You know what I was like when I followed the Jewish religion - how I violently persecuted God’s church. I did my best to destroy it.
Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other!
I had told him how proud I was of you - and you didn’t disappoint me. I have always told you the truth, and now my boasting to Titus has also proved true!
“What are people, that you should make so much of us, that you should think of us so often?