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Doing the Gospel Paul’s Way
had worked for a while.
At first, when he was converted on the road to Damascus, he was knocked down from his high horse and spent some days at the mercy of God’s spirit in the home of a believer.
He then started to tell the Jews in the synagogue that he had been wrong about Jesus, who he know knows to be the Christ.
After a while he had to be escorted out of town to save his neck.
So he went to Jerusalem.
The Jews there plotted against him.
He went to Caesarea, then home to Tarsus, then to Antioch, Cyprus, another place called Antioch, Iconium, then to Lystra, where the Jews stoned him and left him for dead, but he went back to Antioch.
He went back to those places in Asia Minor, and were called to go to Macedonia.
He was imprisoned in Philippi, run out of town in Thessalonia, had to leave Berea, and ended up in Athens where he tried to convince the Greeks about Jesus and got dismissed when he mentioned the Resurrection.
So, Paul’s way, he used his learning and his insight and his connections and his debating skills.
He made some converts, but was a marked man, suffering death plots, imprisonment, beatings, even was stoned for blasphemy, cut off in Athens and then
So he went back to what he was used to: to the synagogue, arguing that Jesus is the Christ.
But again,
Paul’s Wisdom Failed Him
and he had to learn a lesson from the scriptures he already know.
For all the stuff he knew, all the reasons why people should believe, all the proofs he could present, in Corinth as in other places,
The Jews Did Not Respond to Paul
This is really a fulfilment of God’s call on his life: Taking this up-and-coming Jewish star Rabbi and changing his life so that he could become the Apostle to the Gentiles.
He was raised to avoid them.
Never have dinner with them.
Don’t eat their food.
But now he was God’s missionary to them.
So when the Jews didn’t respond to reason, Paul left them behind, and
The Mission Moved
to the Gentiles, right next door.
This is really where God wanted Paul in the first place.
It just took him a while to get it clear in his head.
Paul’s Focus Is The Cross
For he had already tried it his way.
To Know Christ is Better
than being wise.
In other words,
I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW about how to convince people that Jesus is the Christ.
Paul Preached From His Experience
True Wisdom Is From God
A Secret Hidden Wisdom
Wisdom Is Unmasked by the Spirit
We Need the Spirit to Know God
The Spirit Brings Clarity
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