Paul was willing to remain under the suffering and persecution bearing down on him because he knew the One he had placed his faith in. He was in prison, facing death because that was where his God wanted him. His God had promised to never leave him nor forsake him so although his circumstances changed, His God never would, so he rested in His care. He remained confident in, and dependent on, His God whom he committed his life to. Paul's faith remained settled in his conviction that God had the ability and power to make him able to fulfill the work of the ministry He had assigned him.
Paul gave Timothy two more commands along with assurance that he too would be enabled by God to carry them out in fulfilling his ministry. He was to retain the standard and guard the Gospel he was being entrusted with, by God, through Paul. The Gospel, Paul also pointed out, was guarded and guaranteed by God who had given it as a deposit to Paul to be passed. The responsibility with it, as given by God, is that it is to be passed on without changes, modifications or alterations.
The same Holy Spirit who enabled Paul and Timothy in their ministry of guarding and giving out the Gospel message empowers us today to join in that same ministry.
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In the fall of 1969, Gil began a full-time teaching ministry as Senior Pastor of Indian Hills Community Church. He also earned his Ph.D. from the California Graduate School of Theology. The focus of Pastor Rugh’s ministry is systematic, verse-by-verse teaching of the Bible. As a...