Part 8 | Apollo Beach: It’s the Moments that Define Us
From Acts 9:1-22
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📖 Acts 9:1-2 ESV But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
📖 Acts 9:3-4 ESV Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. 4 And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”.
📖 Acts 9:5 ESV And he said, “Who are you Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
1. My can be or .
📖 Acts 9:6 ESV But rise and enter the city and you will be told what you are to do.
📖 Acts 9:7-9 ESV The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. 8 Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So, they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. 9 And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
📖 Acts 9:10-12 ESV Now there was a disciple at Damascus named “Ananias.” The Lord said to him in a vision “Ananias.” And he said, “Here I am Lord.” 11 And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying.
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📖 Acts 9:13-15 ESV But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority form the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.” 15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
📖 Acts 9:16-17 ESV “For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
📖 Acts 9:18-19 ESV And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized; 19 and taking food he was strengthened.
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📖 Acts 9:20 ESV And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”
📖 Acts 9:22 ESV But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
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📖 Acts 26:15-18 ESV And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.16 But rise and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the thing in which you have seem me and to those in which I will appear to you,17 delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles -to whom I am sending you 18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn form darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”.
📖 Romans 10:9 ESV the word of faith which we proclaim; because, if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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