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Paul’s ministry to the Gentiles

Romans 15:14-21 My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and are able to teach each other. 

But I’ve written to you in a sort of daring way, partly to remind you of what you already know. I’m writing to you in this way because of the grace that was given to me by God. 

It helps me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I’m working as a priest of God’s gospel so that the offering of the Gentiles can be acceptable and made holy by the Holy Spirit. 

So in Christ Jesus I brag about things that have to do with God. 

I don’t dare speak about anything except what Christ has done through me to bring about the obedience of the Gentiles. He did it by what I’ve said and what I’ve done, 

by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of God’s Spirit. So I’ve completed the circuit of preaching Christ’s gospel from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum. 

In this way, I have a goal to preach the gospel where they haven’t heard of Christ yet, so that I won’t be building on someone else’s foundation. 

Instead, as it’s written, “Those who hadn’t been told about him will see, and those who hadn’t heard will understand”.

Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians

Ephesians 1:15-19 Since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, this is the reason that 

I don’t stop giving thanks to God for you when I remember you in my prayers. 

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation that makes God known to you. 

I pray that the eyes of your heart will have enough light to see what is the hope of God’s call, what is the richness of God’s glorious inheritance among believers, 

and what is the overwhelming greatness of God’s power that is working among us believers. This power is conferred by the energy of God’s powerful strength.

Romans 11:13-14 I’m speaking to you Gentiles. Considering that I’m an apostle to the Gentiles, I publicize my own ministry 

in the hope that somehow I might make my own people jealous and save some of them. 

1 Corinthians 1:26-31 Look at your situation when you were called, brothers and sisters! By ordinary human standards not many were wise, not many were powerful, not many were from the upper class. 

But God chose what the world considers foolish to shame the wise. God chose what the world considers weak to shame the strong. 

And God chose what the world considers low-class and low-life—what is considered to be nothing—to reduce what is considered to be something to nothing. 

So no human being can brag in God’s presence. 

It is because of God that you are in Christ Jesus. He became wisdom from God for us. This means that he made us righteous and holy, and he delivered us. 

This is consistent with what was written: “The one who brags should brag in the Lord!”

Acts Of the Apostles 15:12 The entire assembly fell quiet as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describe all the signs and wonders God did among the Gentiles through their activity.

Meeting the Jerusalem church leaders

Acts of the Apostles 21:18-21 On the next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James. All of the elders were present. 

After greeting them, he gave them a detailed report of what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. 

Those who heard this praised God. Then they said to him, “Brother, you see how many thousands of Jews have become believers, and all of them keep the Law passionately. 

They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to reject Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to live according to our customs.

Acts of the Apostles 2:18-21 “Even upon my servants, men and women,” “I will pour out my Spirit in those days,”“and they will prophesy.”

“I will cause wonders to occur in the heavens above” “and signs on the earth below,” “blood and fire and a cloud of smoke.”


“The sun will be changed into darkness,” “and the moon will be changed into blood,” “before the great and spectacular day of the Lord comes.”


“And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”


Suffering servant

Isaiah 52:13-15 Look, my servant will succeed. He will be exalted and lifted very high.

Just as many were appalled by you, he too appeared disfigured, inhuman, his appearance unlike that of mortals.


But he will astonish many nations. Kings will be silenced because of him, because they will see what they haven’t seen before; what they haven’t heard before, they will ponder.