They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. Acts 14: 19 God does not always protect his servants from harm. This truth is valid today as well: The kingdom of God advances at great cost to God's servants. Some times the anguish of stoney words to the man fully committed to Christ. Those who commit themselves to Christ's lordship will some times bear on their body the marks of Jesus. Gal 6:17. Those who are faithful to Christ, his Word and his righteous ways can expect trouble in this world, we engage in spiritual warfare against sin and Satan's power. Meanwhile the hope of believers is stored up in heaven our hope is not in this life nor in this world, but in the appearance of our Savior to take us to himself, taken into glory.
