Summary
He was in a constant, not argument, but constant defense of Scripture, continually using Scripture to support and prove and explain how Jesus is the Messiah, how Jesus was the one who brought forgiveness into our world. In Thessalonica, the Jews would come back to the synagogue every week, three weeks in a row, and they would argue it out, reasoned it out, discuss it out, having Paul prove from the scriptures. Think of Acts 14 when the Jews from Anniac followed them to Leistra, to Econium, to Derby, constantly trying to shut down the Word that Paul and Silas were bringing to the people. So everywhere they went, there were open ears, there was a possibility for proclaiming the word and we romanticize how nice this early church must have been and how easy these missionaries must have had it because there were open ears everywhere they went. On frequent journeys in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from the Gentiles danger in the city, danger in the wilderness danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters in toil and hardship through many as sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked. So we like Paul, like Silas, like Timothy, all the missionaries, we too are called to be relentless in continuing to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.
Video citations
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