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Acts 9:5

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Saul said, “Who are you, Lord?” The voice answered, “I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting.

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In the past I insulted Christ. As a proud and violent man, I persecuted his people. But God gave me mercy because I did not know what I was doing. I did that before I became a believer.

God is so wise and powerful that no one could oppose him and survive.

“I used to think that I should do everything I could against Jesus from Nazareth.

“Look at these people! They are arguing with the one who made them. Look at them argue with me. They are like pieces of clay from a broken pot. Clay does not say to the one molding it, ‘Man, what are you doing?’ Things that are made don’t have the power to question the one who makes them.

Doing that would make the Lord jealous. Do you really want to do that? Do you think we are stronger than he is?

But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them. You might even be fighting against God himself!” The Jewish leaders agreed with what Gamaliel said.

Show that you are loyal to his son, or the Lord will be angry and destroy you. He is almost angry enough to do that now, but those who go to him for protection will be blessed.

“But Jeshurun became fat and kicked like a bull. (Yes, you people were fed well and became full and fat.) They left the God who made them! They ran away from the Rock who saved them.

He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me?”

Get up now and go into the city. Someone there will tell you what you must do.”

But Peter said, “I can’t do that, Lord! I have never eaten anything that is not pure or fit to be used for food.”

We all fell to the ground. Then I heard a voice talking to me in Aramaic. The voice said, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are only hurting yourself by fighting me.’

I don’t mean that I am exactly what God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal. But I continue trying to reach it and make it mine. That’s what Christ Jesus wants me to do. It is the reason he made me his.




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