Open Doors and Adversaries

2024-09-18

1 Corinthians 16:8-9 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. (ESV) For the time being, Paul intended to stay in the ministry at Ephesus, where the opportunities and the opposition were both great. One or the other of these situations may have arisen while he was writing this letter (cf. 4:19). It says something about Paul’s perception of his ministry that the presence of opposition was a sign to him of the viability of his l...

1 Corinthians 16:8-9

But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. (ESV)

For the time being, Paul intended to stay in the ministry at Ephesus, where the opportunities and the opposition were both great. One or the other of these situations may have arisen while he was writing this letter (cf. 4:19). It says something about Paul’s perception of his ministry that the presence of opposition was a sign to him of the viability of his labor and reason for pressing on, not running away.

Credits:

Christ In You - Oracles Of A Worshipper by Keifer R. Bradshaw

Safe In His Arms Track as performed by Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Choir

Your Latter Will Be Greater Track as performed by Martha Munnizzi

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