ACTS : week 15

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Paul's Playlist For Getting Saved
Acts 9:1-15

We see the humble beginning of the apostle Paul.

1. Rage Against The Sheep

God created love.
The devil always tries to offer a substitution so he offers lust.

Vs 1 breathing threats & murder.

It only takes one compromise at a time to fall into deep sin.

It can all start with a seed of jealousy.

King Saul's corruption started with a song...his own son-in-law made him jealous.

What man uses for evil God can turn around for Good.

The issue is, who has control of your heart?

2. Falldown Boy

God shone down.
Saul falls down.
God asks, "why have you been persecuting Me?"

Saul recognizes he's talking to God and responds, "who are you Lord?"
God identifies Himself as Jesus.
Saul's equation God = Jesus = problem!
Saul's whole purpose was to prove Jesus wasn't God - he persecuted Christians.

Saul asks God, what do you want me to do?
God tells him to go the city and then He would tell him what to do.

A christian is a man who ceases what he wants to do & now does what Christ wants him to do.

Any time we feel God speaking to us, our response should be "here I am, Lord."

Saul turning to Christ would be like President Bush telling us to welcome Osama Bin Laden as one of our own. Trying to convince us that he had turned his life around.
Of course there were some who questioned Saul's intentions.

The more unlikely the vessel, the more likely God will get the glory when He uses that vessel.

The persecutor Saul became the preacher Paul.

Live a life of repentance.
Live a life of proclaiming Christ.

This is Paul's testimony. This is Paul's God-story.

Your testimony :
What you were like before Christ.
How you met Christ.
What your life has been like after meeting Christ.