Acts, chapter nine.

We have two more parts to this series in the book of Acts called Transforming Encounters. I'm Trevor Davis, by the way. I'm GCC's pastor. Thanks for being with us. As we continue to make disciples and gather in Jesus name on the Lord's day, is it appropriate to read the Bible in church?

Let's do that. Acts, chapter nine, verses one through nine. Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

And he said, who are you, Lord? Then the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads. So he, trembling and astonished, said, lord, what do you want me to do? Then the Lord said to him, arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.

And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened, he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight and neither ate nor drank. Let's pray together.

Father, we confess again that we believe your word, that we know you because of what your word has revealed, and that you love us. And we're thankful for this. And we pray God for the saints of God who have gathered on your day, to be equipped to be encouraged to feel your love in their life by what they hear preached from the truth of your word today. And also God for the sinners here, the ones who we used to be just like unredeemed and outside of your family, I pray God that today is their day of salvation, that they will see. In the story of Saul of Tarsus, hope for themselves and holy spirit, the master evangelist, we ask you to open hearts like you opened Lydia's heart and Nicodemus heart, so that these friends of ours might believe and be saved like us.

For your glory we pray, and for the gospel we preach in Jesus name. Amen.

Flannery O'Connor, a noted author from years ago, once said of the apostle Paul, I reckon the Lord knew that the only way to make a Christian out of that one was to knock him off his horse. And today I'm going to be teaching from these verses that we just read, the salvation story, the conversion of a man first called Saul of Tarsus. We know him better as the apostle Paul. Forgive me up front if I switch between Saul and Paul accidentally. Really, there's no Paul in acts, chapter nine.

He's still Saul. But this is the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. I call this Jesus intercepts Paul or Saul. Let me tell you about this story because there are some fantastic quotes trying to describe it in the commentaries and other sermons. This narrative has been called easily the most familiar passage in acts.

And I think that's true because it can be so familiar that assumptions go unquestioned, that embellishments are taken as truth. For example, think about the quote I just read from Flannery O'Connor. Nowhere in the New Testament is Paul ever said to be on a horse, but in this story, a blinding light knocks him down, and we assume that he was on one. But the Bible doesn't say that. So we want to question the assumptions about this passage.

This narrative has also been called the most important event in human history, apart from the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I will say that if Saul had remained a jewish rabbi and never had this experience, then we would be missing 13 of the 27 books of our New Testament. So it was a very important conversion. This narrative has also been called the most famous conversion in church history. And I would say to you that Luke is so impressed with the importance of this narrative that he includes this story three times in the book of acts alone, once in his own narrative, and twice in Paul's speeches.

Not only that, two thirds of the book of acts tells Paul's story. And lastly, this narrative has been called the most dramatic conversion of all. And I think that's not too far off, because this is the salvation story of the most notorious enemy the christian church ever had. And so I hope that gets you started. And one more preliminary remark.

As we think about this story, I want you to know that nowhere does it say that Saul decided for Christ, as we might say, that he decided to follow Jesus. To the contrary, he was persecuting Jesus Christ. Rather, it was the Lord Jesus himself who approached Saul and intervened in his life. And that has some. That has some bearing on how we think a sinner gets saved.

And my sermon has two sections, and I think that's plenty today. I'm trying to be brief. Section number one. I want to give you the profile of a potential Christian, as I read to you the biblical evidence of surrounding the Saul of Tarsus guy leading up to this point. I want to show you that Luke's point of view is read all this about him and know that God looks at a guy like this and says, I can change the world with that guy.

So, look, the profile of a potential Christian may not be like what we think. And let me just say earlier, early on in this message that the christian faith and the christian church today is not God looking down from heaven and going, who are the most decent neighbors that exist on earth? Who are the kindest people? Who are the folks that are made up of different, better stuff than the worst of humanity? Because those are the ones I'm going to use.

That's never, ever been the case. So let me give you this profile of a potential christian. Acts 758. They cast Stephen out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Saul had a ringside seat to the first martyr ever in the christian church. He was manning the cloak closet. And if they're placing bets on how long Stephen would last before that last stone hit him in the head and killed him, Saul booked the bets and he bet against Stephen. Here's how I know that. Acts eight, one.

Now, Saul was consenting to his death. Saul was rooting for Stephen to die. Additionally. Acts eight, three. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church.

I want to focus on that phrase momentarily. He made havoc of the church. Here's how he did it. Entering every house, dragging off men and women, committing them to prison. I couldn't really find any evidence that in the first century, Israel had women's prisons.

Highly irregular. To incarcerate a woman in that culture. And yet Saul said it's fair game throwing every one of these christians in jail.

He made havoc of the church. It's the only place in the New Testament that this word appears. What does it mean? It means something like to ravage or to uproote or to devour. This word shows up one time in your Old Testament, in the greek translation of the Old Testament, and it's found in psalm 80, verse 13, and gives us all sorts of insight into what it means for Saul of Tarsus to make havoc of the early church.

Psalm 80, verse 13. The boar out of the woods uproots it, and the wild beast of the field devours it. This word, make havoc, gives the picture of a ravenous wild pig destroying a vineyard, just uprooting everything, eating everything that it can leaving it in tatters and moving on to the next one. You know, one. Peter, five, eight.

Be villagent, be vigilant, be alerted. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. And in the first century, in acts chapter seven, eight and nine, Satan himself prowling around the first church in the body of Saul of Tarsus, uprooting it and destroying it, making havoc of the believers. It's something like a ferocious attempt to devastate. One commentator called it a brutal and sadistic cruelty, a mauling.

This is Old Testament imagery for anger. It's snorting through flared nostrils. Saul of Tarsus couldn't even think about this idea that there would be Jews who believe Jesus. That dead guy is a messiah, is the long awaited Messiah. And it made him angry to think about it.

Brothers and sisters, this is the kind of guy that says, I can make a Christian out of that.

And here he goes, the beginning of our text. Acts nine, one, two. Then Saul still breathing threats and murder. You should write above threats and murder in your Bible. Threats of slaughterhouse.

That's the way one linguist translates it. Saul breathing threats of slaughter. Threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest. He asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus so that if he found any who were of the way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

I love it that the first nickname for the church was the way. Jesus is the way and the truth and the life, and no one comes to the father except through him. And he says that large is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction. And many travel on that wide road, but small is the gate, and narrow the road. Narrow is the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

He says, let's go find these people of the way. Let's get rid of them. My brothers and my sisters, the verses I just read to you, building this profile of a potential christian, I don't mind saying to you, this is pure terrorism. In fact, when I think about jewish people and everybody of the way at the beginning were jewish, when I think about them being rounded up, imprisoned, taken away from their homeland and destroyed, you know what that tells me? That's what the Third Reich did.

The Nazis took a page out of Saul of Tarsus playbook and perpetrated on the world the Holocaust. That's Saul of Tarsus.

Saul of Tarsus is introduced to us as a violent, active, resourceful persecutor of the newly formed christian community we call the church. And now he's making it international. You understand that Damascus, Syria, is outside Jerusalem, Israel. And he's saying, I want authority to cross the border and go grab people who live in Syria who have believed that Jesus is the messiah, steal them away from their homeland, imprison, perhaps try them, perhaps not, and leave them and their lives destroyed in God's capital city.

I'm trying to use appropriate language in church to tell you just what a dirt bag Saul of Tarsus was.

I won't have time to get to the verses later that after he becomes a Christian, all the believers hear about him, and they're scared of him. They say, we don't want him in our fellowship. They have to go get Barnabas, the son of encouragement, and he has to grab Saul by the arm and say, look, I've vetted this man. He has believed in the Lord, and he's not going to kill you. This was a godless heathen.

At this point, Saul of Tarsus is more wild animal than human being. And I want you to think of it. In just a few days time, he would convert to faith in Christ and he would be baptized in the very name of Jesus. So the question is, how could he ever get to that moment? And that's what the ResT of our text is going to tell us.

But for now, he's in no mood to consider the claims of Christ. His heart is filled with hatred. His mind is poisoned by prejudice. And had we met him in Jerusalem, as he's on the road to DamAsCus, with the benefit of our hindsight, and we would have said, hey, the very movement you're going to try to destroy and its leader, you're going to bow to him and worship him and believe in him. In just a few days hence, he would have violently reacted against you.

He would have ridiculed you for suggesting that, and he would have said, that's preposterous and unthinkable. That's the kind of sinner God has no trouble saving. Not even a Hurdle, not even a bump in the road. And here's where I'm going with this. If that's the profile of a potential Christian, you don't know anyone who's too far gone yet, and you're not too far gone.

You can meet this same lord. You can be changed in the same way.

You see, the one thing saul of TArsus hadn't calculated on was the sovereign grace of God. So that's the first part of my sermon. Here's the second part. The first part was the profile of a potential christian. And the second part is how jesus saves a scoundrel.

Acts nine three four. As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly he used to circle the word suddenly because not only was it not difficult for God to take Saul of Tarsus and make a christian out of him, it didn't take him very long either. Suddenly a light shone around him from heaven, and he fell to the ground. And he heard a voice saying to him, saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You need to circle the word me in acts, chapter nine, verse four.

It's the most important word in the whole verse in my bible. It's capitalized capital m me. It's Jesus's pronoun for himself. And I want you to get into the mindset of this terrorist from the New Testament. Saul thought that he was only attacking a small group of people who weren't very intelligent, who were easily gullible, and the world would be better off without because they were worshiping God the wrong way.

Saul had aimed his target too low. He had evaluated his actions to be not very significant. And, boy, was he about to learn. Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? And in the most dramatic way, he learns that this group he thought was unimportant had a heavenly spokesperson.

They were represented by an otherworldly individual. And now he's learning that to attack the Christians was to attack this heavenly figure.

Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You realize that the Lord didn't ask him, why are you persecuting my church?

Jesus called the church me.

You cannot identify with anyone or anything closer than you might as well be talking to me. When you talk to them, this destroys forever the idea that you can have Jesus Christ but not his church. He won't let you separate the bride from him, the bridegroom. Look, I'm glad Jesus is my bridegroom and is protecting me. I'm glad that to get to me in the realm of the spirit, you have to go through my bridegroom, the lamb on the throne, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? Here is Saul's first glimpse into the great doctrine of christians being in Christ. And when he becomes Paul, after he becomes a Christian and he gets discipled, and the Lord begins to use him and becomes the greatest missionary the world's ever seen and the best church planter and the best pastor developer, when he becomes that guy, he begins under the inspiration of the spirit of God, under the very breath of heaven to write letters. You have them in your Bible. They are inspired scripture.

And over and over and over again in the epistles of Paul, the letters of Paul, he tells you about the benefits and the loving resources for all of those who are in Christ in the lamb. Saul. Saul, why are you persecuting me? And let me be very clear. Here's another way to say it.

To persecute a follower of the master is to persecute the master himself. This is why Jesus said in Luke 1016 to his disciples, he who rejects you, rejects me.

Do you belong to a local church? I don't see how a person can have assurance of salvation and go long stretches of time not connected to the body of Christ. In fact, the Bible says in one John 513, I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, Jesus, that you may know you have eternal life. So just right there, the scriptures teach that you can know you're going to heaven when you die. You can know that you have a relationship with God.

You can know you're one of his children. And part of the knowing is having the believers in your church vouch for your testimony and your living faith. You see, if I wanted to know whether you have a real faith in God, I should be able to ask the people in your small group. I should be able to ask your husband or your wife, your children, or the believers in the church that are closest to you, and they should be able to say to me, yes, let me tell you about the spiritual fruit I see from them over and over. Do you have that?

Because I want to tell you that Jesus says, if you want me, the church comes with me. You believe in me and you trust in me and you walk with me. And if you read your bible, it will tell you can't do it without a local church, can't do it without the saints of God, where you love them and you serve with them and you obey all those one another commands with the church. It's the first truth. Jesus Christ taught Saul of Tarsus, this wasn't month number three, discipleship book number four.

Here's verse five. So Saul still is not real sure who he is. He says, who are you, Lord Jesus? Then the Lord said, I am Jesus whom you're persecuting. It's hard for you to kick against the goads.

Here's what I think Saul did in that moment. I think he put his hands on his head and I think he said, oh, no.

Jesus of Nazareth is risen from the dead.

Oh, my goodness. Stephen, the guy I wanted to die, was telling the truth when he bore witness to the son of man standing at God's right hand in acts 750. Oh no, now there's going to be some other oh no's. And by the grace of God, I hope it's not you given the. But there's going to be some other o no's.

Because you know. Do you know what Jesus said? He said, many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast out many demons in your name? And he will say to them, depart from me, workers of iniquity. I never knew you.

And those who thought they had a real faith will hear from the son of man that they didn't. And they'll say, well, it's too late. Oh no.

I think Jesus is a really good savior, and I think that he's not going to lose any that the father has given him. So I think it's my job to say to you, to examine yourself, to see whether you're in the faith, make sure that you're one of those that God gave to Jesus.

And your salvation is going to look dramatic, like Saul of Tarsus. You'll be that different on the other side of meeting the real Jesus. So it'd be hard for me to try to figure out how these words must have struck Saul when he heard, completely refuted everything that made him who he was. That voice from heaven might as well have said, saul, you've been wrong about everything. And not only that, you've messed it all up with violence.

And now I'm really your enemy.

This is what Saul's mentor, the rabbi Gamaliel, meant. Do you know about Gamaliel, man? Gamaliel was one of the pharisees, and he was never a Christian, but he was an incredible old Testament Bible scholar. And even though he wasn't regenerate, he did have some worldly wisdom about him. And Peter and John heal a man.

In acts chapter three, the religious leaders arrest them for it. They're in prison. In acts chapter four, the church prays for them. God brings a miracle, gets them out of prison. The religious leaders say, never preach in this name again.

And the apostles say, we must obey God rather than men. Do you remember this? After the we must obey God rather than men moment, which was basically, we have a higher government than you. Momentous. All those religious leaders went into private session together and they're discussing, what are we going to do with these guys?

And do you remember what Gamaliel said, it's incredible. Acts 538 and 39. And now I say to you, keep away from these men and let them alone. For if this plan or this work of men, it will come to nothing. But if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest you even be found to fight against God.

And now, in living color, four chapters of the book of acts. Later, the rabbi Gamaliel's worst fears are realized. When the Lord Jesus says from heaven, I am Jesus, whom you're persecuting. It's hard for you to kick against the goads. You're fighting a battle you can't win.

Saul, before this happened, before he became a Christian, Saul was like many men I meet today. He had decided that he would not be governed in life. There was no one who could tell him no, and he would immediately comply. He would say, look, I got my rights. I'm a grown up.

You're not the boss of me. Have you ever heard any of this stuff? And I am a man and I'm independent, and no one tells me what to do, and I do it. And God recognizes that and says, you know what? It's not going to.

It won't be an evangelist that convinces this guy. And he's my chosen instrument to the Gentiles, and I've got to have him. I've sovereignly declared that it's going to take a sign and a wonder from heaven, because he's decided no one tells him what to do. And let me just stop and say, for some of you, if that's true of you, God's not going to give you any more of these lights from heaven. I wouldn't count on it.

Not saying he can't do it, not saying he doesn't do that anymore. I'm saying you shouldn't count on it. And so that if you see yourself in Saul of Tarsus, instead of waiting for the light from heaven, you just got your light from the scriptures today, and he's spoken to you today. Don't rebel against the light of God. So we come to verses six and seven.

So he blows my mind, trembling and astonished, said, lord, what do you want me to do? The man who I just told you lived the life saying, no one orders me around. The moment he meets Jesus of Nazareth, he says, I'm all yours. What is it that you want me to do? This is the contrast.

This is the transformation Jesus makes in a sinner when he saves him or her. Have you had that transformation? Has it been dramatic? Cause I gotta tell you something. Nowhere in the Bible says, here's how you become a Christian.

Take classes at church, graduate, be confirmed, have everybody pray for you. And now you're one. Not anywhere. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, you know what. To make sure that if you die in infancy, you don't go to hell.

We're going to baptize you as a baby, declare you to be a Christian all your life. And when you get old enough, we'll tell you, hey, you're good. We've taken care of that. Boom. You're a Christian.

Nowhere in the Bible give you $1,000 if you can show it to me of my wife's money. All right, listen.

You must be born again.

And Saul of Tarsus didn't say that. The Lord Jesus said that. Somebody asked me one time about our church. Is your church full of those born again christians? You know what I said?

Are there any other kind?

There are no other kinds. If you don't have the new birth, you don't have the Lord Jesus. There's your amen. Point.

So when you preach about Saul of Tarsus coming to Christ, you have to tell the crowd, has it happened to you?

The Lord said to him, arise and go into the city, and you'll be told what you must do. That's funny to me. I don't know about you, but I want everything up front. Just tell me what I got to do. Tell me what to expect.

Tell me where to go. Tell me what it's going to cost me. Tell me what I can anticipate. And it seems like God won't do it. It seems like he's going to say, look, show me you can obey one step at a time.

Saul. Go into the city. When you get there, I'll tell you what to do next. So then. But, hey, here's a preaching point, too.

Paul wasn't traveling alone. Saul wasn't traveling alone. He's in a caravan. He's got security. He's got other men.

And they hear something, but they don't know what it means. We learn later that Saul sees something that they don't see, but they can't deny. Something's happening to this leader of ours, who's maybe the angriest guy we've ever met. Here's what it says. The men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no one.

Listen to me very carefully. Isn't it significant that these others can be present with him and yet not see what Saul sees? They know something happened. They can't really describe it. It didn't happen to them, and they don't understand it.

Hey, are you one of only maybe one or two believers in your circle of friends and family that you run around with, and they know you're not what you used to be? Something's different. They don't understand it yet, and it troubles you because I want you to think about them differently. Some of you are going, you know, my brother, my sister in law, my 29 year old daughter. They couldn't give a rip about goddess.

Never read a Bible. I'm at church. They're at home, hungover or wherever they are.

Their values are the other side of the aisle than mine. They've told me, stop doing the Jesus stuff with me. Don't talk about it. And you've thought about them. You know what?

By now, they're never going to believe.

This text in the Bible is there for you to hear rebuke from heaven saying, you can never, ever think that. Because the apostle Paul, who was Saul, says in one of his letters, I'm the chief of sinners. I persecuted the church, and I believe him. You know what that means? That means if you live your worst life, the best you can be on the sinner's list is vice chief.

You can only be the second worst. And God had no trouble saving the worst one. Does that make sense? If you've given up praying, believing that your friends and family that seem so far away will ever come to Jesus? Acts, chapter nine is for you, friends saying, change the way you think and pray.

This is how Jesus saves a scoundrel. Now look. Saul of Tarsus thought like a peacock with his feathers in plume. He was going to strut into Damascus, and he was going to raid the city, and he was going to show his authority, and he was going to show his ability to persuade the crowd. That's how he thought he was going into Damascus.

Do you know how he went into Damascus? Blinded and led by the hand like a little boy. Remember when I told you that gate and that narrow road and that gate small because no one strutted their way onto the narrow road? And everyone who's ever come to Christ was humbled by heaven? When they were converted, they were broken over their sins.

They didn't do it because their friends were all becoming christians. They didn't convert because their parents said they had to. No. They had a moment with Jesus that broke their heart and their will forever.

Has that happened to you?

Because when Jesus saves a man, he transforms that man, and when he saves a man, he wrecks that man. And when he saves a man, that man never forgets it and never gets over it. Is that you? Is this what you have? Here's verses eight and nine.

Saul arose from the ground. When his eyes were opened, he saw no one. They led him by the hand, brought him into Damascus. He was there three days without sight, neither ate nor drank. This is how Saul, the enemy of Jesus, enters the kingdom.

Well, what happened after he did? When the Holy Spirit grabs a person and makes them believe, grants them faith and repentance, begins to do a work in their life, he changes everything about how they think and. And what they do according to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And this is acts, chapter nine. Acts, chapter 20 is also in your Bible.

And in acts, chapter 20, Paul is about to say goodbye to some of the elders of one of his most precious church plants, and he's going to tell them, meet me at the beach in Miletus. Might as well be in a warm, friendly, breezy place, because I've got some things to tell you, and I'm going to hug and kiss you and say, and we're never going to see each other again on this side of heaven. And after they kind of had that Kumbaya moment, cry night at camp, throw the burning pine cone into the campfire and sing friends or friends forever. After that, Paul wiped away the tears, and he got a serious demeanor about him. And to those elders, here's what he said.

Acts, chapter 20, verses 28 and 29. Therefore, take heed of yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you, sparing the flock. How did he know about the savage wolves that would wreak havoc in the church? Because he was the first one.

And God turned a ravenous wolfenhe first into a sheep. And then he even gave him the character of a shepherd. And he said, the very people I wanted to destroy, you got to protect them with your life.

In Galatians, chapter one, Paul wrote, it pleased God to reveal his son in me. He says, I wasn't looking for him. He came and got me.

The great Bible scholar from England, John Stott, wrote, the grace of God so frees us from the bondage of our pride, prejudice, and self centeredness as to enable us to repent and believe. One can but magnify the grace of Goddesse. That he should have had mercy on such a rabid bigot as Saul of Tarsus. And indeed, on such proud, rebellious and wayward creatures as ourselves. If you'll look in acts chapter nine and see yourself in Saul of Tarsus, you'll be well on your way to meeting King Jesus.

And here's how we're going to apply this to our lives. At the end of the service, our prayer teams are going to come and everybody's going to go that way. But some folks are going to come for prayer. Only those who think that they don't have everything in their life fixed and who think that maybe there's some more spiritual growth, they can only if you think you haven't arrived, you should come get prayer. And you don't have to be a member of our church.

We'll pray for anybody about anything. But let me give you two things that our prayer teams can pray for you about. That applies this text to your life. Number one, pastor, I believe the lie that someone can be too far gone to ever know the Lord God's calling you to repent of that attitude and to restart your prayers for those you know and love. Or number two, pastor, I believe this about myself.

But now I see me in the story of Saul of Tarsus, and I'm ready to believe in Jesus. That's all. And that's enough. Father, don't let the enemy steal the seed as planted today. Amen.

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