communities, were persecuted, or even executed. When people said it in that day, they meant it, and they backed it up with their lives. Today, you could walk into nearly any bar and give a drunk twenty dollars to say, “Jesus is Lord,” and he would say it, but that doesn’t mean it came from the Holy Spirit. But you see, saying those words today is not as threatening to people as it was in the first century. Remember, Paul wrote first to people in the first century, for whom those words required courage,