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I'm tired of this one stalls, directive only because I wanted to connect it with what we kind of last week in the passes that we were in last week right before this.

Where he's

What is converted and then analyzed comes to him.

Again we've it's it's wonderful kind of going through a book like this cuz you kind of get to see the threads of of people, connecting to one another and how God uses them for his glory.

When he sees fit just at the right time, they come into each other's lives and the Lord connects them and I'm part of what I thought was.

I mean

Don't you love to have like a plan?

Nothing to go to the right way.

I'm just the way you thought it was going to go.

But I mean, don't you like just a good plan?

Like you think, you know what you're going to do on Monday or Tuesday or like, you know, there's I know people in this room who do certain things in certain orders.

You go to certain restaurant on a certain night, go to their certain plans and everything is laid out that way we make these little and then there's gold in our life that we have, at least, I think there should be nothing like a good goal, to try to reach and then upon reaching that goal the satisfaction of getting to that.

When I continue to see an ax is people who I'm sure had plans and and goals, and things in mind and then there's a God in heaven.

That's kind of giggling and like, yeah, oh, you thought you were going to Damascus to to kill people.

You know, you're going to do quite the opposite, actually.

Going to give your life away and you're the one, who's going to be the one that's ends up being persecuted by the time you get there.

He said, I just I don't think that was his goal for the week.

You know I'll be I'll be on by the Lord by Friday.

I don't think was his goal to know that Christ is the Son of God by Friday was not the goal of Saul.

Who would come fall?

That's it.

Wasn't that wasn't it, but somewhere along the way God saw fit to.

Well.

To save him from himself to bring him to The Marvelous Light.

Any of the passes that were in today, the directives of Saul's life now or not his own.

He's on a different plan.

Is that different goals in mind?

Is no longer going after those that are found in the way to drag him into the street.

He is now part of the way and he is himself.

Going to be the one, proclaiming the good news about the son of God.

Why just comes at you quickly done it?

I mean things can change.

So one of those things that I have very much enjoyed lately and this is just totally a side note.

This is totally free, is it?

God is doing some weird things with me right now.

Just just in a general sense like he's putting me in situations that I didn't plan on being in.

He's, he's telling me that he'll use me.

However, he sees fit when he sees fit.

And I'm have to say yes, sir because it's really hard to preach out of Acts and not say yes.

And what I found is that the conversations that I'm having amongst us in amongst everybody here lately, seems to me.

Well, Don't take this the wrong way more.

God driven.

We have discussions and we laugh and we cut up, but we also talked about some serious things.

And I'm loving it.

I didn't I didn't I didn't know how we got here but I sure am thankful that the Lord God is here and I'm praying that the Lord will keep us here in the days ahead that that he would see fit to keep directing and keep guiding and keep these conversations going around him.

Guess what?

I'm trying to say is that I hear what you're saying.

I know what's going on.

I know that there are passages that well your heart just struggles with.

And I'm so thankful for.

My prayer is that as we continue to grow as individual Believers that we will continue to grow together as a body of Believers, that these discussions will go deeper that, we'll see ourselves in the life of Saul.

Paul that we'll see ourselves in the lives of these people that are in Acts that are being used for the kingdom of God, and be used the same way.

Cuz we are so privileged.

We are.

To be able to stand in front of you.

And to tell you that, I am owned by the King of Kings and the Lord of lords.

To be able to have conversations around the word of God, to be able to even understand one line is a blessing.

Let alone being able to struggle with you through text.

So let's look at the directive, this audience.

Okay?

So let's just jump into Verse 18.

We see that saw was freed to Proclaim.

He was freed to Proclaim, I believe it or not.

I know this is going to be something crazy but believe it or not, saw wasn't just save, just to be saved.

The Lord didn't find him on the road to Damascus, just for the fun of it.

He didn't leave him there.

We know from Verse 18 that we read last week and immediately something like scales fell from his eyes.

And he regains sight then he arose and was baptized and taking food.

He was strengthened for some days, he was with the disciples at Damascus.

So The Lord has ananias go.

Visit him upon being visited by ananias and and is causing my brother and puts his hand on him.

The scales fall from his eyes.

He is baptized immediately and he is strengthened He is now in the power of the Holy Spirit walking as a believer in Christ.

Same guy, 3 Days Later.

Three days before.

I mean, was the one who is seeking the life of Christians is now doing the very same thing?

But the opposite side.

Now, he's seeking this Others May Come to know the same truth, that he knows.

So what does he do?

Well, obviously he get saved and go straight to the couch finds a good big screen TV puts his feet up and begins to watch while you just pick the show cuz he is saved and redeemed and that's all he needs to do.

And there's nothing more to do here, go read the Roxicet or whatever it is and and move on with his life.

Now, he can't help but share what happened? he can't help but after being strengthened it says for some days he was with the disciples in Damascus first 20 and then immediately He proclaimed Jesus in the synagogue saying he's the son of God.

When immediately immediately he goes and begins to proclaim the good news.

I cannot wait to see Paul in the heavens and I want to know how scripture came to life.

I want to know how those Old Testament passages that he knew front ways back way sideways as being all about God, when the light came on, I want to know, man, how, how did that switch happen?

Did it like all light up at the same time?

Or did you sit there for three days, going through passages in your head?

And God was continually showing you.

That's about Christ, that's about Christ.

That's about Christ.

That was about Christ.

That's about Christ and he just understood a little bit at a time.

Or did it just all come at him as a big wave?

Imagine sitting there for 3 Days, understanding the truth in a way that you would never seen it before being blind and not able to do anything about it and you just sit there and you're going through all your thoughts, which I'm sure he had plenty of them but as soon as he's able to see, as soon as he takes food, as soon as he strengthened immediately, he proclaimed Christ in the synagogue.

It's all that he could do.

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What he does is he proclaimed him as the son of God.

Understand this.

Everything hinges on Christ, being the son of God.

If Christ is not the Son of God, the rest falls apart.

So why is it that he preaches about Christ being the Son of God?