GOOD MORNING THANK YOU JESUS FOR WAKILG US UP THIS MORNING } HEY HOW MANY OF US WAS LIKE PAUL I KNOW I WAS NOT AS BAD AS HIM BUT WE BOTH WAS ON OUR WAY TO HELL PAUL WAS A BAD DUDE A KILLER UNTIL WE MET JESUS IF JESUS CAN TURN PAUL AROUND HE CAN TURN ANYBODY AROUND} WHAT SHOULD WE LEARN FROM THE LIFE OF PAUL? WHO WAS PAUL?} THERE IS MUCH WE CAN LEARN FROM THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. FAR FROM ORDINARY, PAUL WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO EXTRAORDINARY THINGS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THE STORY OF PAUL IS OF REDEMPTION IN JESUS CHRIST AND A TESTIMONY THAT NO ONE IS BEYOND THE SAVING GRACE OF THE LORD. HOWEVER, TO GAIN THE FULL MEASURE OF THE MAN, WE MUST EXAMINE HIS DARK SIDE AND WHAT HE SYMBOLIZED BEFORE BECOMING THE APOSTLE OF GRACE. PAULS EARLY LIFE WAS MARKED BY RELIGIOUS ZEAL, BRUTAL VIOLENCE, AND THE RELENTLESS PERSECUTION OF THE EARLY CHURCH. FORTUNATELY, THE LATER YEARS OF PAULS LIFE SHOW A MARKED DIFFERENCE AS HE LIVED HIS LIFE FOR CHRIST AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIS KINGDOM. PAUL WAS ACTUALLY BORN AS SAUL. HE WAS BORN IN TARSUS IN CILICIA AROUND A.D. 1-5 IN A PROVINCE IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CORNER OF MODERN DAY TERSOUS, TURKEY. HE WAS OF BENJAMITE LINEAGE AND HEBREW ANCESTRY. HIS PARENTS WERE PHARISEES FERVENT JEWISH NATIONALISTS WHO ADHERED STRICTLY TO THE LAW OF MOSES WHO SOUGHT TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN FROM CONTAMINATION FROM THE GENTILES. ANYTHING GREEK WAS DESPISED IN SAULS HOUSEHOLD, YET HE COULD SPEAK GREEK AND PASSABLE LATIN. HIS HOUSEHOLD SPOKE ARAMAIC, A DERIVATIVE OF HEBREW, WHICH WAS THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF JUDEA. SAULS FAMILY WERE ROMAN CITIZENS BUT VIEWED JERUSALEM AS A TRULY SACRED AND HOLY CITY. AT AGE 13 SAUL WAS SENT TO PALESTINE TO LEARN FROM A RABBI NAMEED GAMALIEL, UNDER WHOM SAUL MASTERED JEWISH HISTORY, THE PROPHETS. HIS EDUCATION WHOULD CONTINUE FOR FIVE OR SIX YEARS AS SAUL LEARNED SUCH THINGS AS DISSECTING SCRIPTURE. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT HE DEVELOPED A QUESTION-AND ANSWER STYLE KNOWN IN ANCIENT TIMES AS DIATRIBE. THIS METHOD OF ARTICULATION HELPED RABBIS DEBATE THE FINER POINTS OF JEWISH LAW TO EITHER DEFEND OR PROSECUTE THOSE WHO BROKE THE LAW. SAUL WENT ON TO BECOME A LAWYER, AND ALL SIGNS POINTED TO HIS BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE SANHEDRIN, THE JEWISH SUPREME COURT OF 71 MEN WHO RULED OVER JEWISH LIFE AND RELIGION. SAUL WAS ZEALOUS FOR HIS FAITH, AND THIS FAITH DID NOT ALLOW FOR COMPROMISE. IT IS THIS ZEAL THAT LED SAUL DOWN THE PATH OF RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM. PART 2 TOMORROW WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PAUL THE CHIEF OF WHAT BAD IS NOT ONLY DID HE KILL HE KILLED CHRISTIANS AND GOD STILL USED HIM FOR GOOD IM GLAD HE IS USING ME FOR GOOD THANK YOU JESUS FOR CHOOSING ME.HAVE A GREAT DAY IN JESUS NAME.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:54:17 +0000
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