David Jeremiah 'The Aftershocks of Saul's Conversion' -full- Turning Point 2015, 06 07

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Jeremiah will send you these Bible strong resources in appreciation when you give to the Ministry of turning point today I don't know if you were like me but I've spent a lot of time reading the Bible and I sometimes find myself wondering what the people in the Bible look like have you ever done that and isn't it interesting that we spend so much time in our culture on the outward appearance and when you read the Bible there's almost nothing in the Bible about that I mean you have to really use your imagination try to figure out what people have you ever seen the pictures they paint of Jesus for instance and how they thought Jesus looked one of the people I've been intrigued by in that regard is the Apostle Paul because there are a few little hints in the scripture about him according to an early Christian document he was a man of middling size his hair scanty his legs were a little crooked his knees were far apart he had large eyes and his eyebrows met and his nose was kind of long not the exact way you would like to be described but that's how they describe him one modern writer has described him as a bald-headed bowlegged short man with the big nose and an unbroken eyebrow that lay across his forehead like a dead caterpillar I didn't write that somebody did you say well where would they ever get such a thing on the Apostle Paul well second Corinthians 10 10 says his letters are weighty and forceful but in person he is unimpressive in the book of Acts he is known by his birth name Saul up until chapter 13 many mistakenly assumed that the Lord changed Saul's name to Paul after his encounter on the road to Damascus but because his father was a Roman citizen Saul also had a Latin name and his Latin name was Paul after his conversion Saul determined to bring the gospel to the Gentiles so he dusted off his Roman name and became known as Paul a name Gentiles and most of us are accustomed I'll be honest with you I don't think I will ever be able to find anyone who so captures my imagination and my enthusiasm for ministry as does the great Apostle Paul outside of the Lord Jesus Christ he was the most influential man who ever walked on this earth still today after all these years we open our Bibles to the letters that he wrote to the churches and as we read them we are instructed and challenged blessed and motivated FF Bruce the great scholar said for half a century or more I have been a student and teacher of ancient literature and to no other writer of antiquity have I devoted so much time and attention as to Paul nor can I think of any other writer ancient or modern whose study is so richly rewarding as his is this is due to several aspects of his many faceted character the attractive warmth of his personality his intellectual stature the exhilarating release affected by his gospel of redeeming Grace the dynamism with which he propagated that gospel throughout the world devoting himself single-mindedly to fulfilling the Great Commission entrusted to him on the Damascus Road and laboring more abundantly than all of the other apostles one thing you pick up when you read the life of Paul when you read his letters he was a man of one thing he lived for the gospel Romans 11 says he was separated unto the gospel of God and today we're going to devote one last study to this magnificent man as we look at the aftershocks of his conversion you may think that's a rather strange a description for what we're going to do today but what Paul experienced on the road to Damascus was like an earthquake it was emotional visual audible spiritual supernatural it was the intervention in his life from above and from the epicenter of the Damascus Road there was a series of aftershocks that literally went outward like this and changed Saul's life forever prepared him for the ministry God had planned for him and changed everybody in its wake and so I'd like to suggest to you what some of those aftershocks were and walk with you sort of through the things that happened to him after he became a Christian and it is really like a huge boulder has been dropped in the water and the little ripples continue outwardly the first thing that happened to him after he became a Christian was he entered a new family it says in verse 18 of the ninth chapter of acts immediately immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once and he arose and was baptized Saul's first act as a believer was to submit to the ordinance of baptism by the way that should be the first act of every believer according to the scripture it was most likely administered by Ananias at this moment when he was baptized he became United with the very people that he had come to Damascus to destroy he became United with the other Christians the Bible teaches us that when we are baptized in the spirit something that happens when we are saved we enter into the universal body of Christ made up of everybody who's a Christian anywhere in the world but when we are baptized in water we enter into the local assembly of those believers in what is the local church and that's what's all did when he became a Christian he was immediately baptized baptism for Saul was a lot different than it is for us if Saul had just become a Christian he might have gotten away with it but when he became a Christian and he was baptized he was ostracized from his family from that very moment onward his loyalty to his heaven family now became his priority and when someone becomes a Christian as you know we are adopted into the family of God now i'm glad that i have an earthly family and I'm sure you feel the same way but I'm also glad that I have a spiritual family a heavenly family made up of all the believers in the family your family and my family they're a lot bigger than most people think we have a lot of members in our family people don't know about and don't understand it if they don't know Jesus it won't make any sense to them at all listen to these words from Matthew but he answered and said to the one who told him who is my mother and who is my brother and he stretched out his hand toward his disciples and he said here are my mother and my brothers for whoever does the will of my father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother the Bible says when you become a Christian you belong to the family of God and so it is all right for me to call you brother or you to call a woman sister because your brother and sister in the Lord the first thing that happened to Saul after he became a Christian this is very instructive he was baptized and he became a part of the family he entered a new family and then the scripture says that he experienced a new fellowship it says in verse 19 that when he had received food he was strengthened and he spent some days with the disciples at Damascus now it must have been quite a shock for the church in Damascus when Ananias introduced Saul just get yourself in that mindset for a moment I mean did they respond with fear or wonder or excitement resistance hospitality maybe a little mixture of all perhaps could such a vicious enemy really have been converted that's what was in their heads that's what would have been in my head I would have wanted to see this guy vetted before I let him in my group or was he merely pretending maybe he was trying to get away inside of the church so it wouldn't be so hard to find the genuine Christians but Paul needed the church you say well why would he need the church first of all he needed their forgiveness didn't he he had persecuted them he had chased them down and perhaps in that church where he found himself were some of the relatives of people he had actually heard he needed not only to be accepted into the family he needed to be forgiven he needed to know when he turned his back on his former life he was not going to be suspended in some no man's land were the people that he used to be with didn't like him and the people that he joined didn't trust him so for three days and three nights we're told Saul had not eaten but now he takes food and he enters into fellowship with the believers of Damascus and it says here that he did that for a few days ladies and gentlemen let me tell you that one of the real signs of genuine salvation in a person's life is their desire to fellowship with other believers first John 314 says we know that we have passed from death to life how do we know that because we love the brothers he who does not love his brother abides in death now that might be a hard thing for some of you because you've already made up your mind you don't like Christians you might be one of them but you don't like the rest of them I know people like that I know people that you know they've just kind of don't like other Christians well you need to get over it because the Bible says if you don't love other believers there's something wrong when you become a Christian a magnetism sort of develops between you and other Christians you begin to recognize you have the same spiritual DNA and you belong to the same family as soon as Saul was converted he was baptized and he entered a new family but he also entered a new fellowship he became part of the group of people he began to fellowship with them and you know this is what we think Fellowship is isn't it he ate we think fellowship is eating that's only one small part of it in the Baptist Church it's almost everything but but in that time it was just a small part of it and then the Bible says he expressed a new faith verse 20 tells us about the Christ that he preached immediately the Bible says he preached the Christ in the synagogue's that he is the son of God Derrick Thomas was converted to Christianity back in 1971 as a first-year mathematics student at the University of Wales it was during the christmas break and when he returned to the university for the spring semester a few weeks later one of his professors hmm whose reputation is a christian was widely known he's in a secular University one of his professors pointed to him in the middle of the class the first day he was back and said to him in front of all of his secular friends Derek I hear you've become a Christian why don't you stand up and tell us about it whoa and with great nervousness and faltering words Derrick Thomas gave his first testimony to the grace of god in his life after the class the professor pulled him aside rejoiced in God's goodness and said to him listen to this it's important that we Christians nail our colours to the mast quickly he was right and Thomas today a pastor has been grateful for that lesson what did he mean when you become a Christian you shouldn't spend the next two years trying to find the courage to tell somebody you should nail your colours to the mast quickly Saul became a Christian and the next thing you know he's in the synagogue preach in Christ my boys both went on the other side of the country to play football and Daniel played football at a university in Louisiana and I'm not here to cast any aspersions on that University I don't know a lot about it except it's not a Christian school by any means and when he got there to play football and joined the football team he found out he was in the minority I mean he may have been the only Christian on the team from what we can remember and I remember having this conversation with him and I said to him Daniel whatever you do when you get in there let him know you're a Christian don't don't try to see how long you can go before they figure it out when Saul got saved the scripture says he was baptized he entered into the fellowship and he preached Christ in the synagogue and the Bible tells us when he preached Christ in the synagogue the Jewish community in Damascus weren't quite ready for him to be their new preacher at first they invited him as a special guest because they didn't know and they expected him to get into the synagogue and preach this fiery sermon against Christianity after all he had come there with papers in his hands to arrest all the Christians and carry them back to Jerusalem they were certainly not prepared for the message that came from him that day he stood up and instead of blistering the Christians he began to preach Christ to them proving that he was the son of God or the Messiah how would he have been able to present cries to the intellectuals in the synagogue he knew all their arguments he'd been on their side for a long time his experience on the Damascus Road caused him to realize that the apostles were the one speaking the truth now their message became his message and I am sure there was great intensity in his voice when he stood up in the synagogue that first day and began to explain that the Christ that he had been persecuting was indeed the son of the Living God and I love verses 21 and 22 the confusion he created the Christ he preached and the confusion he created then all who heard were amazed and said is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem and has come here for that purpose so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests but Saul increased all the more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus proving that this Jesus is the Christ those who heard Saul as he preached in the synagogue's couldn't believe their ears was this not the same man who had spoken eloquently against this Christ and His resurrection how could he be standing in their synagogue preaching christ whom he had persecuted can the spirit-filled preaching of paul got stronger and stronger it says in the text he increased and with greater and greater authority he preached Christ and with every opportunity his witness became more powerful and the reaction to his preaching became more violent I love what Luke says Luke says that Saul's preaching confounded the Jews the word confounded is a Greek word that's already been used in the book of Acts to describe the reaction of the people of Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost they were confounded they were confused the reaction to Saul's conversion was one of mass confusion nobody knew what to believe and so now it is pretty clear he's nailed his colours to the mast azerty he's run up his flag everybody knows now he's a Christian so all of a sudden this one who had been the champion of the enemies of Christ becomes the focus of the enemies of Christ and we read that he's now engaged in a new fight the plot to kill solvers 23 and after many days were passed the Jews plotted to kill him but their plot became known to Saul and they watched the gates day and night to kill him the phrase after many days were passed probably refers to a period of time that saw spent in isolation in Arabia that is very probable that three years elapses between verses 22 and 23 of Acts chap 9 and this three-year period of solitude had an incredibly profound effect on the life and Ministry of Saul some have referred to this time as Paul's get this his seminary experience it was evidently during this time that he received from the Lord many of the great things that we have written in our New Testament there are many who believe that Saul's place of solitude in Arabia was Mount Sinai I does that ring a bell that's where the law was given to Moses that he went to Mount Sinai and he spent three years there in Arabia that would certainly fit in with the location of the New Testament Arabia if that is the case then listen to these words that i read this week Paul went into Arabia with Moses and the prophets and the Psalms in his knapsack and he returned to Damascus with the Romans and the Ephesians and the Colossians in his mouth and in his heart in a wonderful sense the law was given at Sinai and through Paul grace was given there as well so when he returns from Arabia he's filled with the power of the holy spirit and his preaching cuts even deeper than it did before the Jews of Damascus turn on him just as Saul had turned on the Christians before he had become a Christian and they plotted to kill him and the text says that they literally laid wait for him night and day at the gate waiting for him to come and now he's experiencing the same emotions that he had created in the people before he became a Christian when he was chasing them and then the Bible tells us in verse 25 of Acts chapter 9 about the plan that's saved Saul and the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket now that gives you a reason to believe perhaps that saw was a diminutive person he was small enough to get in a basket and you might need to understand a little bit about the architecture of Jerusalem and Damascus if you go there you'll discover this they built houses with the outside wall of the city as one of the interior walls of their house so you know here's the outside wall of Damascus and here's a house built there and there was a window on that wall so the disciples found one of their brethren who had an apartment on the wall and they took Paul there and they let him down out of the window in a basket so he could get out of Damascus and go back to Jerusalem what a plan in fact it made such an impression on Paul that he talked about it in second Corinthians 11 he writes in Damascus the governor under era tests the king was guarding the city of the Damned Essenes with the garrison desiring to arrest me but I was let down into basket through a window in the wall and escaped from his hands so I have to believe this was somewhat humiliating experience for him he came there as the big shot ready to take out all the Christians and take him back to Jerusalem and when he leaves he's curled up in a basket being let down from a window by his Christian friends sometimes life does humiliate you doesn't it well then we come almost to the end of his aftershocks we've seen his new family his new fellowship he's got a new faith he's got a new fight on his hands and now we're going to realize he's got a new friend and I love this part of the story because his new friend is one of my favorite New Testament characters when Saul left Damascus he's come back to Jerusalem remember Jerusalem's where the church is located he's come back now his thought process has got to be like this you guys I'm a Christian now I have been saved I have been gloriously converted I'm going back to the home church and they'll just receive me with open arms and I'll be loved by them and accepted into the fellowship right and when Saul had come to Jerusalem he tried to join the disciple but they were all afraid of him and they did not believe that he was a disciple the Jerusalem believers weren't convinced that Saul had truly been converted once again they remembered him as he was before they knew firsthand or had heard of his ruthless persecution of the followers of Christ and now he's claiming to be a Christian they thought that he was just trying to infiltrate the church so that he can carry out his hatred of believers with greater success there was no one among the disciples in Jerusalem when he came back who appears even willing to hear about him coming to join them not one name is mentioned as to hey why don't you come in and be one of us so he comes back as a new believer and he's not accepted by the church enter my favorite person the friendship of Barnabas but Barnabas took Saul and brought him to the Apostles and he declared to the Apostles how he had seen the Lord on the road and that he had spoken to him and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus how wonderful is the story of Barnabas Barnabas means son of consolation or better yet son of encouragement i wrote a book on encouragement many years ago and I had a chapter about Barnabas in the book and the title of the chapter was mr. encouragement wherever you see Barnabas in the Bible he's always helping somebody I mean I'm not kidding you wherever you see him and his name is in the New Testament many times he's in the book of Acts a lot of times but he's always helping somebody don't you like to be around folks like that I have some friends that sometimes when I'm with them I tell them later you know I love being with you cuz when when I'm in your presence I always feel like I want to do better I always want to be a better person because I'm with you how many folks like that well Barnabas was a kind of person but if you were around him you just knew that if you had anything that he could help you with he was in always willing to help and here comes Saul back to the church and nobody believes in him nobody wants to trust him so literally is a man without a country he's not accepted in Damascus and now he's not accepted by the church in Jerusalem till Barnabas shows up Barnabas is a come on with me I'll take care of this and he puts his arm around him and he takes him and he stands in front of the church and he tells them hey listen you guys I know what happened to him he met Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus and I want to tell you something else I've heard this dude preach and he is the genuine deal he is a believer in Christ and he put his arm around him and brought him in to the fellowship you know that a telltale sign of an encouragers that he is always willing to champion the case of the underdog have you ever noticed that he will jump on that person's bandwagon after everybody else has jumped off nobody was on Saul's bandwagon he didn't have a wagon he was without anything but Barnabas came alongside of him and said look I'll be your helper and once again we see how God takes care of his people once again he delivers a friend to Saul when he needs it he brought him Ananias when he needed to have his eyes opened he brought him Judas when he needed a house to stay in and now he's brought Barnabas to help him make his way into the church and finally he escaped from a new foe so he was with them at Jerusalem coming in and going out and he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Helenus but they attempted to kill him and when the Brethren found out they brought him down to Caesaria and sent him to Tarsus I haven't time to tell you what happened to him while he was in Tarsus nor all of the other things that could be included as the aftershocks in his life but I do want to tell you something that I think is very important to all of us here today about how God worked in his life and how he works in ours if you study the Bible and read it carefully you will discover a very interesting thing that in the heart of God the times of preparation of his people are as important as the times of ministry just think about the people that you know that spent long years getting ready to do what God wanted them to do I'm talking about Moses and Joseph and David do you know that David was crowned three times king before he became king and when he was already announced as king he was still out in the field taking care of his sheep think about Paul think about what God is doing in his life think about all these times alone think about the fact that Saul's conversion to Christ men experiencing the aftershocks of suffering in just a few short years he's already experienced two attempted murders countless hardships soon he's going to be stoned and left for dead in Lystra beaten and jailed in Philip I forced to flee in Thessalonica and he hasn't even got started yet and you know one commentator that I read says this really does some damage to the idea that people have about Christianity these days that when you become a Christian all of your problems go away didn't happen that way for Saul when he became a Christian he got a whole lot of trouble he had never had before what we don't realize when we read the story of his life is there's a whole lot of his life that we don't know anything about because it happened back here at the beginning all under the cover of silence I'm not talking about weeks or months I'm talking about years years when God was working in this man's life getting ready to move him into a place where he could have an impact on the whole world as he ultimately has had when we think of Paul we always think of the great accomplishments of his life his many travels his writing his preaching but perhaps we should pay a little more attention to the time that he spent a loan away from all of this in preparation when Don and I were in seminary there were often times when I would ask her what in the world we were doing here in seminary why was the seminary student we served in a church over in Fort Worth the Bible Church over there we'd go over there on the weekend and I'd work in the youth department and even directed the choir and Don and I just gave ourselves to that church and we love the ministry we love being with the people but every Sunday night we'd have to get in a car and drive back and when you go back you're going back to seminary seminary is classrooms and libraries and carols I don't even think about that word until this week library carols do you know what that is it's a it's a metal desk that's hardly big enough to set about and they're jammed into the back of the library you have to go sit in those things for hours and read and study and as we would come home from Fort Worth I would say to her honey are you I wish I could just go preach I just want to go be in a church somewhere a lot of my buddies who graduated from cedarville college when I did with a bachelor's degree they just went out and preached they went started churches and i would get notes from them about how great it was and how much fun they were having all people getting saved church was growing it said i'm sitting in a curl reading a book and sometimes the books weren't very interesting but i have to tell you looking back over my shoulders i am so glad I didn't quit that I stayed that I've studied that I learned I tell people that I spent all those years there that was like digging it well and I've been drinking out of that well ever since I got out and I say that because there are young people who have the same feeling that I had that preparation or education is a waste of time just get on with it and I'm here to tell you that there's not anything that i know of that will help you get ready like getting ready God is anxious that we get a good education he trained to Joseph and Elijah and John and Paul and even his own son Jesus Christ during his humanity just a few of the distinguished graduates of the seminary of God and the marked results that came from their lives aren't just that they were gifted and happened to be living in the right time no they got ready to be used and I want to encourage you that if God has got his hand on your life the first thing you do is get ready and sometimes that's hard you ask missionaries who have to go get ready by spending three years learning a language or learning a culture but if they don't get ready they can't serve there is a premium in the Word of God on getting ready more and more as I study the scripture I see that you've got to come to the conclusion that if you're going to serve God with distinction you've got to get ready you've got to get ready I'm going to conclude my message with a story i read this week that has nothing to do with the ministry but has everything to do with the message in his book great by choice one of my favorite business authors and jim collins tells this story about the significance of getting ready for your mission here's what he said he said in 1911 Roland hemmingsen became the first person to lead a successful expedition to the South Pole edmondson was also famous for his incredible commitment to prepare for this expedition while in his late 20s Rowland elman ssin traveled from Norway to Spain for a two-month sailing trip to earn a master certificate it was eighteen ninety-nine he had a nearly 2,000 mile journey ahead of him and how did he make the journey by carriage by horse by ship by rail no he wanted to get ready so he bicycled there he then experimented with eating raw dolphin meat to determine its usefulness as an energy supply after all he reasoned someday he might be shipwrecked finding himself surrounded by dolphins so he might as well know if he could eat one or not building a foundation for his quest training his body learning as much as possible from practical experience about what actually worked edmondson even made a pilgrimage to apprentice with Eskimos what better way to learn what worked in polar conditions then spend time with the people who have hundreds of years of accumulated experience in ice and cold and snow and wind he learned how Eskimos used dogs to pull sleds he observed how they never hurried moving slowly and steadily avoiding excessive sweat that could turn to ice in sub-zero temperatures I know some of you practice that too and you don't even live in Eskimo land he adopted Eskimo clothing loose fitting and protective he systematically practice Eskimo methods he trained himself for every conceivable situation he might encounter on route to the pole here was his philosophy you don't wait until you've had an unexpected storm to discover that you need more strength and endurance you don't wait until you're shipwrecked to determine if you can eat raw dolphin you don't wait until you're on the Antarctic journey to become a superb skier and dog handler you prepare with intensity all the time so that when conditions turn against you you can draw from a deep reservoir of strength that's what God was doing in the life of Saul he was preparing him he was giving him this deep reservoir if you go back and look at the things he endured he could not have endured that if he had not been prepared God was building him inwardly so that when the moments of challenge came he could stand in having done all to stand and then in the midst of all of the stress in the preparation he took out his pin in wrote down his thoughts in what is like a journal and if you read his letters carefully everywhere you turn you pick up little clues that help you in your journey to know how to face the future God accosted him on the road to Damascus but that was only the beginning he spent the next two or three years preparing him so that when he hit the ground he could hit the ground running and make a difference every day of his life I've never preached quite a message like this before because I've never come to it like this in the Bible before but if you're a young man or a young woman and God has been talking to you in your heart about maybe getting out of what you're doing and getting into the work of God and spending your life with the two most important things and only eternal things which are the Word of God and the souls of people I recommend that you take the step don't just jump into the fray that's not how it works get ready find God even at work in your life in the library at the carroll in the dormitory late at night with the light turned down low so you don't wake up your family and your studying and you're getting ready if you get ready God's going to do something great in your life however as we have seen in today's message from ad the revolution that changed the world encouragement is a powerful tool in the hands of a believer the Holy Spirit so encouraged the early church through Saul's dramatic conversion and bold preaching that their numbers continue to rise despite growing opposition yes a little encouragement can go a long way but you don't have to be a high-profile zealot like Saul to inspire your fellow believers you can encourage others right where you are by boldly living out your faith and allowing God to work his transforming power in you through the Holy Spirit if you could use some encouragement for your journey of faith or to discover what it means to have a faith in Jesus Christ I've produced two resources that I'd like you to have our booklet your 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Length: 58min 26sec (3506 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 04 2015