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Life Rebuilt (8 of 16)
by Dave Gustavsen
We're taking a few months to study the book of Acts, and we've been saying that Acts is the historical account of what happened when a group of people took the resurrection of Christ and the aliveness of Christ seriously. And for the first seven chapters, the church was really establishing its identity in Jerusalem, and things were going pretty well. But then something happened-remember? The first Christian martyr-somebody tell me his name? Stephen. Stephen was put to death for his faith, and that was like a tipping point that unleashed this violent persecution against Christians. And that's where Paul comes in...
Saul: The Man Who Played the Fool
by Miles Seaborn
INTRO. There certainly are some things that are obscure in the life of Saul. Other things stand out like a beacon light. One things that is very important is: rather than picking out one piece, or segment, or section of Saul's life that we see him in his totality to get the full impact of the significance of God working in his life and his acceptance and rejectance of the will of God. In some ways, he is very big, and in other ways, very little. In some ways he is commandingly handsome; in other ways, decidedly ugly. All in one, he is a giant and a dwarf; a hero and a renegade; a king and slave; a prophet and reprobate; a man...
The Conversion of Saul (5 of 19)
by Zach Terry
What do you consider the number one reason people don't share their faith? FEAR! Fear of Rejection - What if I loose this relationship? Fear of Ignorance - What if they ask me something I can't answer? Fear of Fear - What if I get nervous and make a fool of myself? Yet - without controversy the one word that we could use to describe the early Christian community would be FEARLESS. They preached Christ in the face of rejection, the risk of being ostracized, even the reality of death numerous times. What enabled them to be bold as lions? What did they know that we do not? I believe the source of their boldness was an overwhelming...
Saul's Damascus Road Experience (20 of 24)
by Daniel Rodgers
INTRODUCTION: In our lesson last week, we had concluded chapter 8, with the exciting story about Philip and the conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch. This evening, we begin chapter 9, and the story of Saul's encounter with the Lord on the road to Damascus.A. The Circumstances (vv. 1, 2) 1. At this point in our story, Saul is on his way to the city of Damascus. He had obtained letters of authority from the high priest in Jerusalem, in order that he could arrest any Christians he might find. You will notice in (vs. 2), that it didn't make any difference to him whether they were men or women, it was all the same. You can sense the...
Saul: Foolish Decision (7 of 18)
by Stephen Whitney
We all make foolish decisions in our lives, but probably not as foolish as best friends Larry Slusher and Silas Caldwell did one day when Larry asked Silas to shoot a beer can off the top of his head. Police say Silas obliged - but missed hitting Larry, who was 47 years old in the head. He was in critical condition at the University of Tennessee Hospital in Knoxville. His lifelong friend Silas Caldwell, who is also 47 years old, was charged with felony assault and was being held in jail. The County Sheriff said, ''The one that got shot put the beer can up on the top of his head and told his buddy to shoot it off. He missed the can and hit his...
Saul - The People's King (2 of 14)
by Jerry Vines
Saul was the first king of the children of Israel. In I Samuel there are three main players. There is Samuel. We looked at his life last week. He was not a king, but he was a kingmaker. Samuel anointed the first two kings of Israel, Saul and David. He is a transitional figure. He is the last of the judges and first of the prophets. The second player is Saul who is the first king and he was really the people's king. The third main player is David who was the great king, God's choice for the children of Israel. We are going to study the life of Saul this evening. We obviously can't deal with everything in it. You could spend many, many weeks just...
How Can I Know God's Will (4 of 7)
by Jeff Schreve
In 1984, I was a senior at the University of Texas. I was getting ready to graduate, and I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to do. My roommate in college the year before, Jerry Evans, he and I had gotten baptized at the same time, my freshman year in high, in college and his sophomore year. And we had spent a lot of time together. We had grown in the Lord together. Well, he really felt like God was calling him in the ministry, so he went to seminary to go in the ministry. And I started to pray. I said, ''God, do You want me to go in the ministry? Is that the plan You have for me?'' And I never felt like the Lord had called me at...
Saul - How Not to Serve God (6 of 49)
by John Barnett
''The greatest thing in all my life-is loving You, knowing You, serving You…''.Those are precious words, if they are true, and they are. And if the Bible ends with those who know, love and serve the Lord doing so forever-and it does. Then the most important element in our life is that knowing, loving, and serving the Lord! We could say the greatest way we could invest our lives and live them well would be serving God. But then the opposite would also be true. The worst way to live, and the greatest waste of a life would be to live for anything but serving the Lord! We have been considering the greatest servant in the Bible named...
The Transformation of Saul
by Robert Walker
On November 30, 1991 fierce winds from a freakish dust storm triggered a massive freeway pileup along Interstate 5 near Coalinga, California. At least 14 people died and dozens more were injured as topsoil whipped by 50 mile-per-hour winds reduced visibility to zero. The afternoon holocaust left a three-mile trail of twisted and burning vehicles, some stacked on top of one another 100 yards off the side of the freeway. Unable to see their way, dozens of motorists drove blindly ahead into disaster. This particular afternoon a blind man walked into the marvelous light of salvation Notice that God would take Saul the racist giant and turn him into the...
Why God was so Hard on Saul?
by John Barnett
Four thousand years ago one man made a series of little choices. He was rugged, handsome, hard working, honest, athletic, strong—and proud. From the perspective of those who lived around him he was a great guy—but from the One who sees the heart, he was pitiful. A spiritual scan would have revealed that he fed his flesh, gave in to his passions, and nursed his wounds until they festered into gangrenous abscesses that oozed bitterness. That bitterness infected his entire life and he ended up becoming an enemy of God. Who was he? Esau, firstborn son of Isaac, grandson of God's friend Abraham, natural heir to all the...
Don't Suffer Loss Like Saul—Ashamed at His Coming
by John Barnett
In the past 60 years of commercial aviation there have been scores of tragic plane crashes. And more often that not before the smoke clears or the smoldering wreckage cools off a group of dedicated investigators from the NTSB are onsite sifting through the debris to find the cause. They may not have been able to stop that plane from crashing—but their research always has an impact on future commercial aviation safety. Tonight either we will love His appearing—or dread it. The choice is ours. Let's look at the finish line. Paul had a distinct impression that life was a daily race with an end of life prize, and the only way to get the prize was to finish...
Don't Suffer Loss like Saul: Sifting through the Crash Site (9 of 49)
by John Barnett
Life is so distracting, isn't it? Sights explode before our eyes all day long; sounds and smells flow around us—in fact so much swirls around us and before us, we can get totally distracted. It can become so easy to just float through life going with the flow of the current of the world. How did Paul and the other New Testament writers operate in ordinary life? How did those who were the most visible servants of the Lord in the Scriptures, operate in all the little things that fill life? What is fascinating is, they all seemed to keep track of life like a day trader—each knew their investment and sought a return on each day's "works". If you read closely the...
How the World's Worst Sinner Became the Church's Greatest Missionary (4 of 6)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Jesus Christ changes people. That has always been one of the greatest, most convincing proofs of the Gospel. It is ultimately more convincing than signs and miracles. We can explain away miracles, if we have a mind to. It is much harder to explain away a radically transformed life. One old fellow who had been converted out of drunkenness was asked if he believed in miracles. His response speaks volumes. "I don't know if the Lord still turns water into wine or not. But I know this. In my family, he turned beer into furniture." The evidence of a changed life was never more clear than in the life of the man we will look at tonight...
Can God Use Me?
by Daniel Rodgers
Let me give you three points to my message: I. Maybe II. Yes III. Without a doubt 2. Let's begin with our first point. The question? Can God Use Me?" The answer? I. MAYBE A. It depends on the relationship you have with God 1. Before God could use Paul, Paul had to get saved. He had to be willing to give his heart, life and soul to God: a. (vs.18) 2. When a person comes to this church and wants to join, the first question I ask is, "Are you saved?' The problems that many churches experience today could be greatly diminished if they made certain every member knew the Lord. B. Again, the question: "Can God use me?" The answer...
It Was Grace That Taught My Heart to Fear (3 of 3)
by Jeff Strite
OPEN: Many people are very suspicious. They'll collect rabbit's feet. They'll put horseshoes upside down to collect luck. And they'll avoid various things like letting black cats cross their path or allowing themselves to walk under ladders. But one of the most famous fears people have is of Friday the 13th. It's considered an unlucky day, because - down thru the ages - both Fridays and the number 13 have been regarded as being an ill-omen. The number 13, for example: The Turks so disliked that number that they practically removed it from their vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a...
When Being Right Is Not Enough (15 of 20)
by Eric McQuitty
Paul was a great man and I have no doubt that on the way to Damascus he rode a very high horse. But a few seconds sufficed to alter the man. How soon God brought him down (Charles Spurgeon). And I answered, 'Who art Thou, Lord?' And He said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.'. . . And I said, 'What shall I do, Lord?' (Saul, Acts 22.8, 10). Introduction: When being right is not enough...Sometimes being right is not enough: Lance Murdock Lance Murdock is a guy who's always done things right. In high school, he was the captain of his football and baseball teams. He was class president, a member of...
