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Introduction
Pay strict attention to the contrast between the tangible and the intangible, between the outward physical and the inward spiritual, between the human realm and the divine realm.
Pay strict attention to the smallest details - they too are a significant part of the perfect divine revelation.
Why?
The issues here are a matter of life and death, of sanctification and perishing.
What really happened on that road?
Two Questions...
Acts 26:12-18
Acts 22;
But..... Everything potentially changes at this point in Saul’s life!
Saul is to be a slave of God, sacred, sanctified, committed to the life God directs;
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Saul will hate the light and love the darkness.
Seeing God’s Glory always leads to a crisis -
For 3 days and nights, this was Saul’s struggle.
Acts
Baptism in the context of the blood of the new covenant - cf
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Summary
1. Saul of Tarsus was determined to destroy the Way.
2. Saul saw Christ Jesus in His glorified state becoming blinded by the light of His glory!
3. The two questions: Who and What.
4. The purposes of Christ revealing Himself to Saul:
a.
To appoint Saul as a servant
b.
To appoint Saul as a witness
c.
To deliver Saul from his people
d.
To deliver Saul from the Gentiles
e.
To send Saul to the Gentiles
5.
Is this the pattern or is it the exception?
4e1. to open their eyes.
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Saul will hate the light and love the darkness.
Is this the pattern or is it the exception?
The foundation to the answer -
Saul was blind and could not see the light of the gospel, thus he was lost and perishing.
The preaching of the gospel once believed removes the blindness and the response of faith opens the vision to the transformative beauty of God.
Which has greater force?
The approval of men writing with ink the endorsement upon paper OR the covenant of Christ written with the Spirit of God on the tablets of human hearts.
The problem -
The glory of Christ - splendor, beauty, amazing
The solution -
The response -
The pattern -
The effect -
[The glory of Christ, the glory of God, and the glory of the Lord]
Let Us See It Now and Reveal It Always
Elements of the Glory of Christ, God, the Lord:
The Majesty of God (greatness in all His attributes)
God Unchanging
God’s Wisdom
God’s Righteousness
God’s Love
God’s Grace and Mercy
God’s Justice
God’s Wrath and Severity
God’s Goodness
God’s Longing and Jealousy
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