[Scriptures]
Matthew 7:3-5
3) “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
4) How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
5) You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye
Matthew 15:1-3
1) Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,
2) “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
3) Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
Matthew 24:13
13) but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Hallelujah! I bid you the love of the everlasting Holy Father God and the peace of the Holy Son Jesus.
Human beings live without being able to tolerate seeing things(꼴). As a result, even the things that should work do not work, they fail, and they cannot gain fruit.
‘꼴(ggol)*’ is a word used to speak lowly of a person’s looks, actions, or positions. All of you should have often heard things like, ‘I cannot stand this(꼴) and that(꼴). I don’t even want to see the sight of them(꼴).’ All of you should have also experienced it in your daily lives.
‘꼴(ggol)’ refers to the look or behavior of a person. It refers to their ‘characteristics and contradictions,’ their ‘shortcomings and weaknesses,’ and the things that ‘you don’t like.
People live without being able to tolerate other people’s ‘condition(꼴),’ which is their ‘weaknesses and shortcomings.’
At Jesus’ time, especially the Jewish religious people, the Pharisees, and scribes couldn’t stand the way people were. They lived their lives walking around and pointing out people’s faults.
Because they lived without fixing that habit, they ended up not recognizing the things the Holy Son, who is the King of kings and Lord of lords, was doing. Furthermore, they chased after the Messiah Jesus who was used as the Holy Son’s body, couldn’t tolerate him, and found fault with and meddled with the things he did. Ultimately, they failed to follow the person who was saving them and crucified him.
People can’t tolerate others being ugly and unpleasant, can’t tolerate others being pretty either, and they just live their lives tolerating only the way they are. In Matthew 7:3 Jesus said, “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? Behold, there is a plank in your own eye. So then, how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ ? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” This means you should realize the way you are. If you only tolerate the way you are, you will live a miserable life not being able to gain the things you want properly.
Therefore, you should be patient and put up with the behaviors(꼴) of one another, and understand and teach one another. Then you will gain things through that and the Holy Son Lord will be pleased also.
If you cannot stand ‘difficult situations(꼴)’ such as agonies, hardships, persecution, tribulations, oppositions, etc., it is hard [for you] to exist, you cannot walk the path of salvation you should walk and you cannot achieve success. You need to put up with those situations(꼴) that you encounter and keep going, thinking of them as joy and putting up with them with hope in the days to come. Now is a time when you should put up with such situations(꼴) that you encounter and be in harmony even if they make you angry.
Until now, all of you couldn’t stand seeing your brothers’ behavior(꼴). You hated them, blurted out their shortcomings and weaknesses and troubled their hearts by doing so, and were envious and jealous of one another. Bless you and pray that you will repent of all these things and that you will live praying and putting up with everything(꼴) you see.
