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Paul speaks about the Gospel...
The mention of “the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God” moved Paul to share his own personal testimony.
He was “Exhibit A” to prove that the Gospel of the grace of God really works.
When you read Paul’s testimony, you begin to grasp the wonder of God’s grace and His saving power.
This is important because to each and every person we meet in life and share about Jesus, we are exibit B after Paul - a proof of Godf’s amazing Grace.
What Paul used to be
He was a blasphemer because he denied the deity of Jesus Christ and forced others to deny it.
He was a persecutor who used physical power to try to destroy the church.
“Murderous threats” were the very breath of his life.
He persecuted the Christian church and then discovered that he was actually laying hands on Jesus Christ, the Messiah!
During this period of his life, Paul consented to the stoning of Stephen and made havoc of the church.
Paul was injurious, a word that means “proud and insolent.”
A modern equivalent might be “bully.”
It conveys the idea of a haughty man “throwing his weight around” in violence.
Even though Saul of Tarsus was a brilliant man and well educated, his mind was blinded from the truth.
He was a religious man, yet he was not headed for heaven!
It was not until he put faith in Jesus Christ that he was saved.
We must be so self righteous as to assume we were born saved.
We have, like Paul, have someone that we USED to be.
Paul had his Saul, we have our own sinful past selves.
Such were some of you....
How Paul was saved
How could the holy God ever save and forgive such a self-righteous sinner?
The key words are “mercy” and “grace.”
God in His mercy did not give Paul what he did deserve; instead God in His grace gave Paul what he did not deserve.
Grace and mercy are God’s love in action, God’s love paying a price to save lost sinners.
It is not God’s love alone that saves us, for God loves the whole world.
It is by grace that we are saved because God is rich in mercy and grace.
Notice there is no metion of God’s love but grace when it comes to salvation.
God’s love makes that grace avalible.
What did Paul’s “ignorance” have to do with his salvation?
Is ignorance an excuse before God?
Of course not!
God does not acept “i diddnt know” as an excuse.
So why does Paul mention it?
Well there is, to a degree a kind of mercy in ignorance.
Jesus recognized this principle when He prayed on the cross, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”.
Their ignorance did not save them, nor did Christ’s prayer save them; but the combination of the two postponed God’s judgment, giving them an opportunity to be saved.
I think of all the years i was igniorant of God and Jesus - years in which i easily could have dies and gone to Hell - yet in His infinate Mercy God spared me during my ignorance till i came to put my faith in him.
Paul makes it clear that this salvation is not for him only, but for all who receive Jesus Christ.
If Jesus could save Saul of Tarsus, the chief of sinners, then He can save anybody!
Look at Paul’s humility:
He considered himself to be the “least of the apostles” and the “least of all saints”.
Pasul was saved the onlyt way anyone can ever be saved: By humbeling themselves in repentance and faith beforr Jesus Christ.
What Paul became
The grace of God turned the persecutor into a preacher, and the murderer into a minister and a missionary!
So dramatic was the change in Paul’s life that the Jerusalem church suspected that it was a trick, and they had a hard time accepting him (Acts 9:26–31).
God not only entrusted the Gospel to Paul, but He enabled Paul to minister that Gospel (1 Cor.
15:10; Phil.
4:13).
When someone obeys God’s call to serve, God always equips and enables that person.
Like Paul, God saved to become a wittness of his goodness, grace and mercy and truth.
Saul died on the road to tarsus and the Apostle Paul was born.
You died when you put your faith in Jesus Chriust too and now you have become a new creation.
amen.
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