February 16, 2014
The Gospel of Jesus Christ can be difficult to talk about, and its message may be foreign or even offensive to others. Even so, the apostle Paul exhorted Timothy not to be ashamed but to be willing to suffer for preaching the truth. Alistair Begg explores how that challenge relates to our lives today. Suffering for the Gospel, as Paul and Timothy did, exposes our own weakness and provides an opportunity for God’s power to be displayed through us.
8Therefore qdo not be ashamed of rthe testimony about our Lord, nor of sme his prisoner, but tshare in suffering for the gospel by the power of God, 9uwho saved us and vcalled us to1 a holy calling, wnot because of our works but because of vhis own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus xbefore the ages began,2 10and which now has ybeen manifested through zthe appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, awho abolished death and bbrought life and cimmortality to light through the gospel,
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