Rom 1:14-16
14 I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.
15 So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
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The Apostle Paul was well acquainted with unbearable pain and extreme suffering in his physical life. But he was also a man who was brought into the heavenly realm, the very Kingdom of God to see and hear and experience a realm beyond our world. And it was this realm that Paul was given a glimpse of what was coming, and the one who would be coming to rule the whole realm of God. It can be difficult for us to mentally grasp or imagine what God has prepared. We are confined in this realm of time, with physical limitation, and spiritual blindness. We find it difficult to hear and see things that are in the Spirit. Yet God has given us many signs of His power and majesty in ways for us to receive, believe, and experience. But none of the great wonders of His revelation is beyond the remarkable miracle of the incarnation, life, and resurrection of His son Jesus our Christ. Paul saw him in revelation at His conversion. Paul experienced Jesus personally giving him a revelation of the Gospel. And Paul saw the revelation of the glory, power, and majesty of Jesus in the third heaven. So Paul new what was entrusted to him by God. And with this great revelation he was indebted to everyone who God would send him to in order to share the truth that was revealed him. Even if it meant the suffering of his body and eventual sacrifice of his life. It is no surprise now that Paul words "for our light affliction which endures for a moment..." carries us past the struggles we fight in our bodies, our souls, and our minds and into very presence of the eternal power of God. A power that was, that is, and that is to come......
Glory to God in the Highest and peace, goodwill toward mean. For the power of God was revealed to us in the glory, power, and majesty of His Son Jesus Christ.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation!
