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Can God use Me
Saul the persecutor of the church
Saul was his Hebrew name
Paul himself suggests, he was a Jew in terms of his circumcision, Benjaminite lineage, Hebrew ancestry, and Pharisaic training ().[1]
The three periods of Paul’s life
Paul was Somebody
Hometown Tarsus
Born about the same time as Jesus.
()
3 for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,
4 although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh.
If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:
5 circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;
6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to the righteousness which is in the Law, found blameless.[2]
Paul had personal knowledge of Jesus during his earthly ministry.
Hengel goes so far as to assert that it is almost probable that the young Saul even witnessed Jesus’ death.[3]
Though a Jew, his father was a Roman citizen[4]
Training
The councils Paul served on
Sanhedrin, and became the active leader in the furious persecution by which the rulers then sought to exterminate Christianity.[8]
Saul was educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers, being zealous for God just as you all are today.[10]
5 as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify.
From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.[11]
What he was doing before his acts 9 experience
Saul a zealous man who actually thought he was doing God a service by persecuting the church.[12]
If you would have asked him about Jesus of Nazareth here is what he may have said.
Do you expect me to believe that a crucified nobody is the promised Messiah?
According to our Law, anybody who is hung on a tree is cursed [].
Would God take a cursed false prophet and make him the Messiah?
No![13]
No! His followers are preaching that Jesus is both alive and doing miracles through them.
But their power comes from Satan, not God.
This is a dangerous sect, and I intend to eliminate it before it destroys our historic Jewish faith!”[14]
Paul the Persecutor
Stephen preaches before the religious leaders
52 “Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?
They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;
53 you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”[15]
The response of the religious leaders
Paul was at the stoning of Stephen
And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
2 Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.
3 But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.[16]
The Burning Bush that changed Saul’s Life and direction
Paul the Nobody
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Paul on the road to Damascus to round up more Jewish members of the “Way” Christians
Paul traveled the 150 miles from Jerusalem to Damascus armed with legal authority to hunt down Jewish Christians [17]
Saul was going to have a divine meeting with Jesus Christ
How long you stay in the nobody land is up to you.
Moses stayed hiding behind the Mountain 40 years
Jacob stayed 20 years under the hand of Laban
The burning bush time in Saul’s life
God calls Saul to join Him in the Ministry
This was Saul’s “burning bush” time with the Word of the Lord.
While On the road to hunt down the Christ followers
To have the burning bush experience your position will change.
Saul fell to the ground.
Having a meeting with the risen Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus was alive.
Have you ever been wrong?
What did God say to Saul?
Saul’s response to the Lord
Saul could have had his men take him home.
HE said yes to the Lord that he had been so add mint that Jesus was dead.
Saul the angry bull () had now become a docile lamb!
The leader had to be led because the vision had left him blind[18]
Paul the Servant
How did God use Paul?
Three Missionary Journeys
1. A.D. 47-49 to Roman Province of Asia ()
Wrote these books during this time: 1&2 thes
2. A.D. 50-53 churches founded in Philippi, Berea, Thessalonica, and Corinth.
The Thessalonian letters were written during this period[19]
1&2 Corin; Romans
3. A.D. 53-57 centered on a long stay in Ephesus, from where he wrote 1 Corinthians.
During a sweep through Macedonia he wrote 2 Corinthians.
At the end of this time, awaiting departure for Jerusalem, he wrote Romans from Corinth [20]
4. Jerusalem was followed quickly by arrest and a two-year imprisonment in Caesarea Maritima.
Thereafter he was shipped to Rome on appeal to the imperial court of Nero.
There (see ) he apparently wrote his so-called prison letters: Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon.
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5. Paul’s death at about a.d.
67 under the deranged oversight of Nero[22]
Paul would be the preacher to the gentiles
The persecutor would become the missionary
Paul’s conversion was never the focal point of his preaching—he preached Christ, not his personal experience
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.[26]
God used Paul to have a big impacted on us today
The Bible that you hold Paul wrote 13 books of the New testament
14 if he wrote Hebrews
[1] Robert W. Yarbrough, “Paul the Apostle,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, electronic ed., Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1996), 590.
[2] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
[3] Robert W. Yarbrough, “Paul the Apostle,” in Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, electronic ed., Baker Reference Library (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1996), 591.
[4] M. G. Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893).
[5] M. G. Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893).
[6] M. G. Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893).
[7] M. G. Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893).
[8] M. G. Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893).
[9] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 438.
[10] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
[11] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
[12] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 438.
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