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From Acts 9:1-9
📖 Acts 26:10 ESV … I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
📖 Acts 7:58 ESV Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
📖 Acts 8:1 ESV And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
📖 Acts 8:3 ESV But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.
📖 1 Timothy 1:13 NLT … even though I used to blaspheme the name of Christ. In my insolence, I persecuted his people. But God had mercy on me because I did it in ignorance and unbelief.
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📖 Acts 26:10-11 ESV And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. 11 And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
How Does Salvation Happen?
1. Salvation happens when God .
📖 Acts 9:1-2 NLT Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers.So he went to the high priest. 2 He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains.
📖 Acts 9:3 ESV Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him.
📖 Acts 26:12-13 ESV In this connection I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 13 At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that shone around me and those who journeyed with me.
📖 Revelation 1:16 ESV …his face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.
📖 Acts 9:4 ESV And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
📖 Revelation 1:17a NIV When I saw Him, I fell at his feet as though dead.
📖 Acts 9:7 ESV The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.
📖 Acts 22:9 NIV My companions saw the light, but they did not understand the voice of him who was speaking to me.
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How Does Salvation Happen?
2. Salvation happens when God .
📖 Acts 9:4 ESV And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
📖 Acts 26:14 ESV And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
How Does Salvation Happen?
3. Salvation happens when God authors .
📖 Acts 9:5 ESV And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
📖 Acts 22:8-10 ESV And I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And he said to me, ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.’ 9 Now those who were with me saw the light but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me. 10 And I said, ‘What shall I do, Lord?’ And the Lord said to me, ‘Rise, and go into Damascus, and there you will be told all that is appointed for you to do.’
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📖 Romans 10:9-10 ESV …because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
📖 Acts 9:8-9 ESV 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.
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