{"id":4087,"date":"2024-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onevoicefellowship.org\/?post_type=sermonss&#038;p=4087"},"modified":"2024-03-01T22:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T03:12:26","slug":"the-ministry-of-paul-begins","status":"publish","type":"sermonss","link":"https:\/\/onevoicefellowship.org\/ur\/sermons\/the-ministry-of-paul-begins","title":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Paul Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sermon | Acts 9:19b-31 | The Ministry of Paul Begins (2-25-24)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7oOhLUojXUA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4089,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ovf_transcripts_format":{"english":{"heading":[1],"centered":[2,3,4,28,29],"paragraph":[169,187],"bold":[36,37,38],"italic":[28,29],"hanging":[15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,25,24,26,14,43,44,45,46,56,68,74,85,86,87,88,118,119,126,127,128,149,155,156,157,158,164,168,176,177,178,186,190],"section_heading":[]}},"ovf_reading_format":null},"series":[142],"topics":[],"books":[141,276,140],"speakers":[126],"class_list":["post-4087","sermonss","type-sermonss","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-book-of-acts","books-acts","books-acts-9","books-new-testament","speakers-chris-sicks"],"acf":{"scripture_reference":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts%209:19-31&amp;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Acts 9:19-31<\/a>","sermon_manuscript":{"":null,"amharic_content":"","arabic_content":"","chinese_content":"","english_content":"The Ministry of Paul Begins\nFebruary 25, 2024 \nPastor Chris Sicks \nActs 9:19b-31\nBefore I read today\u2019s text, I would like to remind you what we looked at the past two weeks. \nWhen we began Acts chapter 9, the Pharisee Saul was traveling to Damascus to hunt for the followers of Jesus. He had the authority to arrest them, and bring them back to Jerusalem in chains. \nBut before Saul arrived in Damascus, he met Jesus. \nThe risen Savior Jesus Christ appears to Saul and blinds him. \nSaul spends three days in fasting and prayer. \nHe is absorbing the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is not a heretic and criminal.\nInstead, he is the Messiah, he is alive, and he is calling Saul to follow him. \nToday\u2019s text picks up the story right after Saul\u2019s vision is restored and he is baptized. \nHear now the Word of the Lord in Acts 9:19b-31. \n\u201cSaul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. \n20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. \n21 All those who heard him were astonished and asked: \u201cIsn\u2019t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn\u2019t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?\u201d \n22 Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah. \n23 After many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him, \n24 but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. \n25 But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall. \n26 When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. \n27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus. \n28 So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. \n29 He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him. \n30 When the believers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus. \n31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.\u201d\n\nTogether we read Isaiah 40:8: \nThe grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. \n\nFather, thank you for sending you Son to earth to save us. \nJesus, thank you for opening our eyes so we could see our sin, and you our Savior. \nHoly Spirit, thank you for opening our minds and hearts today, so we can understand the Word of God, amen. \n\nOur text for today covers a lot of time and geography. I\u2019m going to divide our text according to three locations:\nSaul in Damascus\nSaul in Arabia\nSaul in Jerusalem\n\nSaul in Damascus Back in Jerusalem, Saul was one of the leading Pharisees. \nHe was probably a member of the Sanhedrin, the ruling council of 70 religious leaders in Jerusalem. \nListen to what happened Mark 14:61b\u201364, at the trial of Jesus when he was interrogated by the Sanhedrin. \n61b \u201cAgain the high priest asked him, \u201cAre you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?\u201d \n62 \u201cI am,\u201d said Jesus. \u201cAnd you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.\u201d \n63 The high priest tore his clothes. \u201cWhy do we need any more witnesses?\u201d he asked. \n64 \u201cYou have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?\u201d They all condemned him as worthy of death.\u201d\n\nJesus claimed to be the Son of God, the Messiah, and that is why he was crucified. \nSaul agreed with this verdict, and received authorization from the high priest to hunt down the followers of Jesus. \nSaul arrives in Damascus like a wolf hunting for Christians to destroy. \nBut three days later, Saul the wolf becomes a sheep. \nSuddenly he is a follower of Jesus the Good Shepherd. \nSaul\u2019s entire world has been turned upside down. \nWhat will he do next? Look again at Acts 9:19b-20. 19b \n\u201cSaul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. \n20 At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God.\u201d\n\nIn Jerusalem Saul supported the crucifixion of Jesus, because he claimed to be the Son of God. \nBut now in Damascus, that same Saul is preaching \u201cthat Jesus IS the Son of God.\u201d \nIt\u2019s both surprising and not surprising that Saul began to preach immediately after his conversion. \nIt\u2019s surprising because the message he preached in the synagogues was the complete opposite of what Saul believed a few days earlier. \nBut at the same time, his eagerness to tell others about Jesus is not surprising. \nThat is what happens when the dead come to life. \nConversion is as radical as night and day, death to life. \nSaul has been reborn, and this new life in his soul fills him with urgency to tell others about the Messiah. \nHe wants to share the good news. Look again at verses 21-22: 21 \n\u201cAll those who heard him were astonished and asked: \u201cIsn\u2019t he the man who raised havoc in Jerusalem among those who call on this name? And hasn\u2019t he come here to take them as prisoners to the chief priests?\u201d \n22 Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Messiah.\u201d\n\nWith his great knowledge of the scriptures, Saul was able to prove that Jesus is the Messiah that everyone was waiting for. \nIn a way, Saul has replaced Stephen who was stoned to death under Saul\u2019s supervision. \nStephen also had great knowledge of the scriptures, and made persuasive arguments about Jesus the Messiah. \nLuke tells us in Acts 6:10 that when people heard Stephen: \n10 \u201cThey could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke.\u201d\n\nStephen died for persuasively preaching the truth. \nNow the Spirit is blessing the persuasive preaching of Saul in Damascus, but he doesn\u2019t stay there.\n\nSaul in Arabia Luke tells us in verse 23: \n\u201cAfter many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him\u2026\u201d \nWhen Luke wrote: \u201cAfter many days had gone by\u2026\u201d he actually refers to a period of three years! \nIf we only read small sections of God\u2019s Word, we miss connections like these. \nThankfully, Saul wrote a lot of the New Testament, so we get additional details about his life in his letters. \nListen to what he wrote in Galatians 1:15\u201318. \n15 \u201cBut when God, who set me apart from my mother\u2019s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased \n16 to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. \n17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia. Later I returned to Damascus. \n18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas and stayed with him fifteen days.\u201d\n\nEventually, Saul goes to Jerusalem and spends time with Cephas (the apostle Peter) and James the brother of Jesus. \nBut first, Saul goes out to the desert for three long years. \nHe lives in \u201cArabia\u201d which at that time referred to this entire region you see on the map. \nIt included the Arabian Peninsula, Sinai, and areas where today we have Syria, Jordan, Iraq, etc. \nWhy did Saul go to Arabia for three years? \nTo be humbled, filled, and prepared for ministry. \nBefore God uses anyone in a significant way, he breaks us, and remakes us. \nMoses was very educated, like Saul. \nBut before Moses led God\u2019s people out of slavery in Egypt, God sent Moses to the wilderness of Arabia for 40 years. \nThe prophet Elijah and King David also spent extensive time in the wilderness. \nGod was teaching them to depend upon him alone, so their ministry would glorify God alone. \nJesus himself spent 40 days in the wilderness before he began his teaching ministry. \nBecause he loves us, Jesus will crush our sinful addiction to our own plans, our own methods of finding success and happiness. \nBecause he loves us, Jesus reveals to us that true success and happiness can be found only if we depend on him for everything. \nWhen we do, he fills us with new direction and purpose. \nWe can begin a life focused on bringing glory to God instead of ourselves. \nSaul was named after King Saul, Israel\u2019s first king. \nHe was a faithful Jew, a Roman citizen, a student of the most-respected rabbi in Israel. \nHe was a Pharisee and the son of a Pharisee. \nHe was a proud and self-confident man, like Peter. \nBefore Jesus could use Saul and Peter to build the church, they both needed to lose their pride and self-confidence. \nFor the rest of his life, Saul prefers the name Paul, which means \u201csmall.\u201d \nJesus gave Paul a very big mission, to take the gospel to the Gentile world. \nJesus could not send the old Saul on this mission--named after the self-confident and arrogant king of Israel. \nJesus instead sent the reborn Saul, who preferred to be called Paul. \nPaul could not teach the gospel to others until he spent 3 years as a student in the desert. \nThere, Paul learned to depend on Jesus alone for ministry. \nIn Matthew 11:29\u201330 Jesus said: \n29 \u201cTake my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. \n30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d\n\nSaul learned the humility of an ox plowing the fields of the Lord, preparing them for the harvest. \nSaul stopped resisting the Lord and learned to trust him. \nPaul was a powerful evangelist and church planter, because he pointed people to Jesus and not to himself. \nAfter his three years in Arabia, Saul returned to Damascus. \nListen again to verses 23-25. \n23 \u201cAfter many days had gone by, there was a conspiracy among the Jews to kill him, \n24 but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. \n25 But his followers took him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall.\u201d\n\nSaul returns from his three years at \u201cDesert Seminary\u201d and immediately finds that suffering and persecution are part of being a Christian leader. \nThe man who came to Damascus full of power and arrogance must humbly escape a death squad in the dark of night. \nSuffering, opposition, and hardship are part of following Jesus, my friends. \nBut we are never alone. \nVerse 25 says that \u201chis followers\u201d helped him in Damascus. \nAnd in Jerusalem Saul will make a new friend.\n\nSaul in Jerusalem After his escape from Damascus, Saul heads to Jerusalem Verse 26 tells us: \n\u201cWhen he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple.\u201d\nI have sympathy for the disciples. \nThe believers in Jerusalem know that Saul supervised the killing of Stephen. \nTheir friends and relatives are in prison because of Saul\u2019s persecution. \nBut now he shows up and wants to go to church with them? \nHe wants to pray the Lord\u2019s Prayer, and participate in the Lord\u2019s Supper? \nI\u2019m sure some of them thought, \u201cI don\u2019t believe it. He\u2019s pretending to be a Christian to infiltrate the church. \nHe is a spy who will report us to the Sanhedrin.\u201d \nWhat could Saul do? What would you do, to prove the sincerity of your faith? \nIn times like this we all need a friend. \nLook at verse 27a. \n27a \u201cBut Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles.\u201d\n\nSaul was in a difficult situation, \u201cBUT Barnabas\u201d stepped in. \nI love when we find things like this in God\u2019s Word. \nYears after this, Saul writes about how God rescues sinners like us from our own difficult situation. \nIn Ephesians 2:1-2,4-5 Saul writes: \n\u201cAnd you were dead in the trespasses and sins\n2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience... \n4 BUT GOD, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, \n5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-- by grace you have been saved--\u201d\n\nFriends, we were helpless and hopeless because our hearts were spiritually dead. \nIt was a problem we could not solve ourselves. \u201cBUT GOD, being rich in mercy\u201d sent his Son Jesus to be our friend, advocate, and Savior. \nAnd when the believers in Jerusalem didn\u2019t trust Saul or want him to join them, Jesus sent Barnabas to be Saul\u2019s friend and advocate. \nWe first met Barnabas in Acts 4:36\u201337. 36 \u201cJoseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas (which means \u201cson of encouragement\u201d), \n37 sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles\u2019 feet.\u201d\n\nBarnabas was generous with his money, and he was generous with his friendship. \nActs 9:27 says: \n27 \u201cBut Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. \nHe told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.\u201d\n\nI love that Barnabas personally brought Saul to the apostles. \nThen he retold the story of Saul\u2019s conversion. \nBarnabas risked his own credibility to advocate for his former enemy. \nBarnabas was a good friend, and he is a good model for us to follow. \nAfter Barnabas steps in to help Paul, we read this in verses 28-30: \n28 \u201cSo Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. \n29 He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they tried to kill him. \n30 When the believers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.\u201d\n\nSaul continues to teach and preach, and his opponents continue trying to kill him. \nBut the believers (who now trust him) protect him. \nThey send him back to his hometown of Tarsus. \nAnd then we don\u2019t hear about Saul for another 8 years. \nBarnabas will eventually come to get Saul in Tarsus, and ask him to help the church of Antioch. \nWe\u2019ll look at that text in May. Now let\u2019s finish today\u2019s text by looking at verse 31:\n31 \u201cThen the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. \nLiving in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.\u201d\n\nIn this verse, Luke looks back to Acts 1:8 where Jesus said: \n8 \u201cYou will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.\u201d \nA lot happened after Jesus said that to the apostles.\nThousands of people trusted in the name of Jesus for their salvation. \nThe church grew in Jerusalem, and then spread to all of Judea, and to Samaria, and to Africa. \nThe rest of the book of Acts is about how the gospel begins spreading \u201cto the ends of the earth.\u201d And the apostle Paul will be at the center of that expansion. \nIn love, Jesus blinded Saul the Pharisee, and then gave him new spiritual eyes. \nJesus broke arrogant Saul, so that humble Paul could serve and glorify God alone for the rest of his life. \nLet\u2019s thank Jesus now together in prayer.\n\nJesus, thank you for opening our eyes so we can see you clearly. \nIf anyone here is still searching for you, we ask you to reveal yourself through the Holy Spirit. \nThere is no other name under heaven that can save blind sinners. \nSo we pray for those you will save. \nAnd we ask you to empower all of us to be humble, loving messenger of the good news. \nWe pray in the powerful name of Jesus, amen.","farsi-dari_content":"","francais_content":"","hindi_content":"","korean_content":"","mongolian_content":"","portuguese_content":"","russian_content":"","spanish_content":"","turkish_content":"","ukrainian_content":"","urdu_content":"","uyghur_content":""}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Ministry of Paul Begins &#187; 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