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And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you.” (Matthew 11:23-24 ESV) In all of his traveling, teaching, and performing miracles, no place had seen more of Jesus than His home base of Capernaum. It was a great choice of bases, with roadways and waterways making Israel as wide open ministry field. But even more, people came through there. Capernaum witnessed more of Jesus because people heard about Jesus and brought people there to be healed and to hear Him. This also brought greater accountability: to whom much is given, much is required. Our nation has been given much. We have had the privilege of receiving not only physical prosperity, but also freedom of religion and the opportunity for many decades to be the missions-sending nation of the world. We have heard the reports of what He has done. Yet, we are very unresponsive to Christ's call on our lives to repent and be transformed. Our "debt", our guilt, is far greater than many of those nations we view as evil-those which do not have freedom of religion and those that declare freedom from religion, because we have been so blessed, yet so apathetic.