He also said:
" Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.
Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory." ( 2 Timothy 2:8-10 ).
Paul, in the above, tells Timothy to remember that Jesus Christ ( of the seed, or lineage of David ) was raised from the dead
according to the Gospel that Paul preached.
Because of that Gospel, he suffered trouble as an evildoer, was even bound...but the word of God was not bound.
Finally, he told Timothy that he endured all things for the elect's sake;
So that
they may obtain the salvation which is in Christ.
There's a little more to it, JD.
Have you not read these things? It's all in there, my friend;
In the details, and in
every word of God.
I implore reason, logic, and faith in consideration of the gospel that Paul preached and who he preached it to. I am going to ask you to read the book of Acts from the time we are introduced to him in the year 37 AD in Acts 7 to the end of it. Then I will ask you to read what his special and specific mandate was, because we are given it in Ephesians 3 as being the apostle to the gentiles and as the apostle to the gentiles he had a special gospel for them. After that I will ask you what you think his reason was for stating that he suffered trouble as an evil doer and from whom he suffered it.
Meanwhile, read this from Acts for a hint:
27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia (Asia the province in Turkey, not the continent) when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.
29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
31 And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?
38 Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
In the next chapter we have a record of Paul's sermon to the Jerusalem Jews; You should read the context but I am going to show you the one word Paul spoke that caused an explosion from the crowd.
Acts 22:21 And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the
Gentiles.
22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
Note: I am not speaking in sound tracks but with enough text that some can learn. I will be back later to comment more on this subject. I am going to employ logic and reason in what I choose to believe and my logic determines that it is the circumcision all during the ministry of Paul that causes his troubles and who violently resists his ministry to gentiles. And it is because of his special calling and his special gospel that he preached.
