Paul’s Life
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How was Paul prepared from birth for his future role?
God in his providence was preparing Paul from the womb to be the man that we know from the Scripture. And he was preparing Paul in ways that I doubt Saul would have foreseen. His birth, his heritage, his family, his education were all lines that would be interwoven into the man we know as the Apostle Paul.
After he encountered the risen Lord Jesus on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul's life altered dramatically. He went from a persecutor of the church to a church planter and a preacher of the gospel. But who was the man behind this great legacy? What do we actually know about him? Welcome to another Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. These are some of the questions that we'll be exploring in the next few weeks as we hear messages from Dr. Guy Waters' series, The Life and Theology of Paul. This series explores both notable events in Paul's life as well as key features of his theology. We'll only get to a few of these messages, but when you donate today, you can receive this entire 12-part series on DVD.
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What does Paul’s Jewish heritage and family background reveal about him?
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Пол газ моментal significance and influence in the history of the church. We take only three men, three great men in God's work in his church, Augustine, Luther, and John Wesley. Each of whom traces, if not their conversion, then a radical grasp of the gospel of grace to an encounter with the writings of Paul. Do you remember Augustine's conversion? He was in the garden and he heard a child's voice say, Tala Lega, Tala Lega, take and read, take and read, and he opens the scripture to Romans chapter thirteen and verse fourteen. Or flash forward a millennium later. There's Luther in the Tower of the Black Cloister in Wittenberg. But he's pondering that phrase in Romans chapter one, verse seventeen.
The righteousness of God. And it dawns on him that this is the gift of God in the gospel. Ні, сес, а фел анс асфойден, антернютай. or John Wesley on Aldersgate Street in London. Seventeen thirty nine. And the preface to Luther's commentary on Romans is read, and he says, I felt my heart strangely warm. I'll take you and I. So much of what we know about the Christian gospel comes right from the letters of Paul. The effectual call. Justification. Adoption. Sanctification. Glorification. Imagine if we took these thirteen letters out of the scripture, how impoverished our understanding of these great truths would be. We owe so much to the Apostle Paul. And so standing where we stand this morning, we are in awe of this towering figure.
But I want you to imagine yourself as a Christian believer in Jerusalem. It's about the middle of the A D thirties. And all of a sudden you are introduced to a man by the name of Saul of Tarsus. Your response, I suspect, would not have been one of awe and admiration in light of what he was about to do. Your response likely would have been one of fear and terror. Is this a ruse? Is this some trick by the Jerusalem authorities? A fifth column in the Christian church. Saul was a ferocious persecutor of Christians. He was intent by his own testimony on exterminating the gospel. And on trying to destroy the church of Jesus Christ. And Paul went far and wide to try and accomplish those goals. Пол до скрипче тіна сперевен вми.
And so as Paul is introduced, as Luke tells us in Акс чатер на. Among the company of believers in Jerusalem. There are men whose wives have been carried off to prison. There are women who have been widowed. Because of the activity of the Apostle Paul, he had cast his lot into the sentencing these men to death. There were children who were looking at Sol of Tarsus. And who could look at him as the one who would deprive them of mother or father.
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