Men's Recovery Study

Objective

To better equip men who are struggling with all forms of addiction to not only recover but renew. This is an Eight Week study of the life of Saul of Tarsus and how God changed this once head strong man into one of the greatest followers of Jesus Christ.

Sessions

Serving Your Self Even When it Feels Right.

Path meant for Destruction

Meeting the Lord

Full Surrender

Putting Your Feet in Good Ground

The Battle

The Spirit Fueled Victory

Running with Endurance

Session 1

Serving Yourself Even When it Feels Right

Acts 7:54–60 NKJV

54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not charge them with this sin.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Acts 8:1–3 NKJV

1 Now Saul was consenting to his death. At that time a great persecution arose against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.

When we first meet Saul in the scriptures we see a man that at first glimpse might seem a little wild but in actuality the truth is that Saul’s actions are from a lifetime of conditioning. The early church was not viewed with the greatest of light in it’s infancy. Especially with the Jews! This new following often referred to as “the Way” seemed blasphemous to the Jewish culture. The originator of the movement had just recently been executed by the Romans and most of His lieutenants had been brought before the Sanhedrin and beaten for their unwillingness to end the madness of referring to this dead carpenter as the the Messiah. Saul was raised to be a Pharisee in every way.