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III. Conversion. Prof. M. M. Ninan. SAUL PAUL. God gave him a new heart. He became:. “The builder and the Architect of the Church” Liturgy of St.Jacob. Jerusalem. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

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  1. III Conversion Prof. M. M. Ninan

  2. SAUL PAUL God gave him a new heart. He became: “The builder and the Architect of the Church”Liturgy of St.Jacob

  3. Jerusalem

  4. Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

  5. Act 2:3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. • Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

  6. Act 2:2 And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. Act 2:3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. Act 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance

  7. Day of Pentecost (Acts 2) Apostles proclaimed the mesia to the Jewish nation.

  8. Peter’s Sermon • Act 2:36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."

  9. Act 2:44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common Christian Commune

  10. Jerusalem Experiment Failed

  11. Stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:59) After 3 years 1/2

  12. "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." Stoning of Stephen

  13. Change of Plan? "Go not into the way of the Gentiles....but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."  (Matthew 10:7)

  14. Plan D temperarily halted Plan E activated Recruit new personals

  15. No, the gospel is not to be preached to the Gentiles and Samaritans. Yes, the gospel is to be preached to everyone, including the Gentiles and Samaritans Mt.28:19 Mk.16:15 Mt.10:5-6 Mt.15:24 Acts 15:3 Acts 15:3 Acts 22:21 Acts 28:28

  16. Act 10:1-8, 24-48 “Tell Peter that the project plan has changed”

  17. Peter, We have a change of Plan

  18. Amos 9:7 "Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?" says the LORD. • "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,and the Philistines from Caphtor • and the Syrians from Kir? Plan A failed Plan D failed failed Plan B Plan C failed

  19. PAUL'S CONVERSION AND FOLLOWING EVENTS [31-45 AD] • Acts 9:1-19 • Paul seeks to arrest Christians--vv. 1-2 • Blinded by light from heaven; hears Jesus' voice--vv. 3-9 • Paul visited by Ananias; sight restored--vv. 10--19

  20. According to Josephus, Damascus was founded by Uz, grandson of Shem who was the son of Noah.

  21. New Project Manager recruited

  22. baptized

  23. Painting attributed to Francesco Xanto Avelli; place of production uncertainShallow bowl on low foot with the Conversion of Saul, c. 1525Widener Collection

  24. Saul of Tarsus met the Risen Christ on the Damascus Road. He was thrown to the ground and blinded by the brightness of the Risen Son of God!!

  25. 3 Days of Paul Act 9:9 And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank. Rom 6:4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

  26. Act 9:18 And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized; • Acts 9:17-19

  27. Kinesat Hanaiya (Chapel of Ananias) in the Christian Quarter of the Old City; reputedly the place where Ananias laid his hands on Saul to restore his eyesight.

  28. According to Paul's own account in his Letter to the Galatians 1:17, he then went away to Arabia, before returning to Damascus.

  29. ? Paul went to Sinai mountains like Moses and Elijah to commune with God

  30. Gal 4:25 "Now this Hagar is Mt. Sinai in Arabia,...". Jebel al-Lawz St. Catherine's Monastery and Mt. Sinai

  31. Petra in NaboteaAlternate suggested place where Saul went

  32. Petra inNabotea Was it here?

  33. Petra Nabotea Mount Sinai

  34. "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven" (2 Cor. 12:2) Heaven = Non material dimension

  35. II Corinthians 12:2-4

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