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What we're saying when we say that Paul was converted on the Damascus road is there came a moment on that day and in that place when confronted by Jesus Christ, confronted with a sense of his sin, he turned from his sin to Jesus Christ in repentance and faith.
In this lecture, we're going to look at what happened to Saul of Tarsus outside Damascus.
We've seen that Paul's whole life up to that point was a grand preparation for the man that God would make him by grace.
And now we want to see how grace burst into the life of Saul of Tarsus.
Now, for Paul himself, Damascus Road was the decisive moment in his life.
He reflects on it in no fewer than three places in his letters.
He looks back on it to the Galatians in chapter one.
He looks back on it to the Philippians in chapter three.
And then at the very end of his life, in 1 Timothy chapter one, he thinks back on the Damascus Road with Timothy.
And in each case, the theme is the same.
What happened to Paul was the undeserved mercy of God to a sinner.
And Paul never tired of rehearsing that theme.
Now for Luke as well, as he tells the story of the early church, the Damascus road was a watershed experience in the life of the church.
One way we see that is that he tells the story of Paul's conversion on three occasions.
There is the account itself in chapter 9, and then in chapters 22 and 26, Paul himself before Roman officials in 26 and before the Jews in 22, tells what happened to him on the Damascus road.
There are only a few things that Luke recounts three times, and each of them
is important to Luke.
And so this is Luke's way of saying this is a watershed moment in the advance of the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
Now, scholars in the last 50 years have seriously questioned whether Paul was actually converted on the Damascus road.
Strange as that may sound to our ears, they don't question that Paul was called on the Damascus road, that he received a summons, a commission to testify, to be a witness to Jesus Christ.
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