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Saul
At Stephen’s stoning
The level of violence is foreign to us today.
Cold blooded murder in the streets.
We will Saul’s conversion today bet Saul, to be renamed Paul, never denied his sin, or worse, glorified his sin.
He would later say:
Saul was sincere!
Jewish by birth, Roman by citizenship, studied in the way of Pharisees in Jerusalem, Saul saw the world in a certain light.
His worldview and where he fit into it was set and he was moving in accordance to that view of the world.
Theistic world view (Judaism) That shaped his morality, purpose, reason for being.
Because of Saul’s worldview, it was ok for him to stand in approval while Stephen is stoned to death, but eating bacon was a sin against God.
Saul was at least consistent with his world view.
He was sincere, he was just sincerely wrong.
His worldview was incomplete, but is was about to change.
Worldview
Naturalism (Secular Humanism) (No God)
Morality is a matter of opinion and death is the end of existence.
Pantheistic - (Everything is God)
Theistic ( There is a God(s))
Monotheistic (One God (Judaism, Islam, Christianity)
It is a difficult, seemingly impossible task to change someone’s worldview.
Saul knows how the world works.
He is need of no more knowledge......and he is moving with purpose
In one minute Jesus was a rebellious troublemaker that was deceiving people and got exactly what He deserved.
And in that instant Saul realized that everything Jesus had said, was true.
A minute earlier Saul was serving God and accomplishing His will, and in an instant Saul realized that he was an enemy of God.
The fact that it only took three days of blindness and fasting to come to terms with how wrong he was is a testament to how intelligent Saul was.
Personal - I struggle to come up with a time in my life that I was completely convinced of something to only find that I was completely wrong in an instant and had to face the reality of how wrong I was.
Except about the Gospel.
I knew about Christ.
I believed who Jesus was.
But I had know who I was in Christ.
When I finally saw my sinfulness in the bright light of His holiness, I was changed.
Ananias’ objection
The Lord’s response
Saul’s sight restored
Remember where you came from
God doesn’t allow us to forget who were so that we can relate to those that are still bound in their sin.
Forgive and accept all who repent
The first words that Ananias spoke to were “Brother Saul”
Challenge what you think you know
Saul thought he knew how the world was.
It is arrogant to thing that any of us have it all figured out.
Stay in the word.
Stay in prayer.
Stay commited to truth.
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