Jewish Opposition To The Gospel

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Jewish opposition to the gospel has not subsided. Even today many Christians deal with the backlash of preaching the Gospel just as Paul did with the Jewish people of his time. As Paul preached in the synagogues, people began to believe in and receive Jesus Christ, causing much of the Jewish community of the time to resist the teachings of Paul. Paul’s response to the Jewish resistance was to simply preach to the Word of God to all that would hear it, including Gentiles. The more people that the Gospel would be preached to, the more the Word of God would begin to spread.
1 and 2 Thessalonians address to Macedonians relates to Paul’s message to Galatia because one of his principal objectives for writing Galatians was to broach the subject of

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