| H. A. Ironside - Religion - 1947 - 99 pages
...and serve Him as we seek to make His gospel known to others. It was this over which Paul rejoiced. "I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,...counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." Do not misunderstand the expression "counted me faithful." Saul of Tarsus had been unfaithful. The... | |
| REV Larry Lee Coggins, Larry Coggins - Religion - 2007 - 450 pages
...Timothy 1:12 Paul was thankful to the Lord for calling him into the ministry. Paul reminds Timothy, "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me,...counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry." Paul reminded Timothy of the grace of God that reached down to save his lost soul. Paul gave Timothy... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 685 pages
...conduce to ease in obtaining pardon, he advanced a proof from the case of the apostle, when he says, " Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly."1 But if possible, as I said before, let the sins of the two men— the blasphemy of the... | |
| Nwanneka Ijeoma Nwokolo - Bible - 2007 - 61 pages
...putting me into the ministry, although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and... | |
| Rick Deighton - Apologetics - 2007 - 178 pages
...putting me into the ministry, although / was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man; but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love, which are in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying and... | |
| Vince Garcia - Religion - 2007 - 600 pages
...and a persecutor, and injurious: but Í obtained mercy, because Î did it ignorantly in unbelief. 1 4 eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every 1 Eventually, since the Jesus. 1 5 This is a iàiîhful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into... | |
| Patty Wachold - 2007 - 330 pages
...me to His service, even though I was previously a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and malicious; how I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief; and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. Faithful is the saying, and worthy... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 609 pages
...through the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom, &c. HOMILY III. i TIMOTHY i. 12-14. "And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, pulting me Into the ministry [RV : to Ms service, tit Iuwss'hu,] ; who was hefore a blasphemer, and... | |
| Philip Schaff, Arthur Cleveland Coxe - Religion - 2007 - 713 pages
...was first Saul the persecutor. He needed mercy, and he has said that it was shown towards him : " I who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious : but I obtained mercy, that in me Christ Jesus might show forth all longsufiering towards those who shall believe in Him unto... | |
| Maurice Ekwugha - Religion - 2008 - 382 pages
...example of a believer Paul's unsavoury past And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabledjfor that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;...obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ITimothy 1:12-13 Paul had a past. Before he met with Christ, he was an ardent persecutor of Christians.... | |
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