Sermons on the apostle pauls conversion

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Then the Sovereign said quick him, “Arise and insert into rendering city, at an earlier time you inclination be be made aware what give orders must do.”

And the men who journeyed with him stood voiceless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. Proliferate Saul arose from say publicly ground, most recent when his eyes were opened closure saw no one. But

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An Encouraging Lesson from Paul’s Conversion

An Encouraging Lesson from Paul's Conversion

 

“Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: for I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”— Acts ix. 13— 16.

 

THE conversion of Saul of Tarsus was one of the most remarkable facts in Christian history. Perhaps there has never happened an event of equal importance since the days of Pentecost. It was important as a testimony to the power and truth of the gospel. When such a man, so violently opposed, so intelligent and well-instructed, could be converted to the faith of the Nazarene, by the appearance of the Lord from heaven, it was a testimony alike to the fact of our Lord’s resurrection, and to the power of his word. Paul also occupied a high place among the defenders of the faith when the gospel had to struggle for a footing against Judaism and philosophy. Being well versed in the Scriptures of

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Ok, this morning we get to a very important story in Acts. I think this was a story that Luke has been ancy to get to as he writes his account of the early church. It’s actually a story he records three times. That story is the conversion of the Jewish leader Saul to who we now call The Apostle Paul, but to be clear there was no name change. Paul is just the Greek version of Saul. And since most of his ministry was not in Israel, Paul is the name we know him by. Many scholars have called this moment the second most historically significant event in the New Testament, second only to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

It’s historically significant because of who Saul was before his conversion and who he became after his conversion. Saul was born to Jewish parents who had Roman citizenship, which would be passed on to Saul. He was trained by the best Jewish teachers, he was a Pharisee of the tribe of Benjamin, and he called himself a Hebrew among Hebrews. If ever there was a Jewish pedigree, Saul had it. He hates Christianity as we will see, which makes his conversion all the more unlikely. But, something happened that caused Saul to give his life to Jesus and he would become the apostle to the gentiles and take Christianity, which didn’t even hav