Developing a World-ChangerActs 9

Acts 17

6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

#1 – TRUTH

#1 – TRUTH

• His comparisons– breathing out, disciples, high priest

Acts 91And Saul, yet breathing out

threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

#1 – TRUTH

• His comparisons• His conviction–Stephen, Jerusalem, Damascus,

disciples, Christ

Acts 93And as he journeyed, he came near

Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Acts 95And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And

the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

#1 – TRUTH

• His comparisons• His conviction• His condition– low, fearful, light-less, blind, being led

Acts 93And as he journeyed, he came near

Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Acts 96And he trembling and astonished said,

Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do…8And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

#1 – TRUTH

• His comparisons• His conviction• His condition• His conversion–The spoken word revealed truth!

Matt 17.1-82 Pet 1.14-19Gal 3.8Gen 12.1-32 Pet 1.20-211 Cor 2.6-132 Pet 3.15-16

“…two edged sword…”

#2 – EXAMPLE

#2 – EXAMPLE

1 Corinthians 111 Be ye followers of me, even as I

also am of Christ.

#2 – EXAMPLE

Philippians 317 Brethren, be followers together

of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

#2 – EXAMPLE

Philippians 49 Those things, which ye have both

learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

#2 – EXAMPLE

Philippians 49 Those things, which ye have both

learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.

#2 – EXAMPLE

2 Thessalonians9 Not because we have not power,

but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

#2 – EXAMPLE

• Ananias – obedience, contact, honesty,

belief, teaching

Acts 2212And one Ananias, a devout man

according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there, 13Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

Acts 2214And he said, The God of our fathers

hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. 15For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. 16And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Acts 919And when he had received meat, he

was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. 20And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

#2 – EXAMPLE

• Ananias • Barnabas– RISK, compassion, acceptance

Acts 926And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he

assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. 27But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. 28And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.

Acts 928And he was with them coming in

and going out at Jerusalem.

#3 – RELATIONSHIP

Galatians 115But when it pleased God, who separated me from my

mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, 16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 17Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.