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May 24, 2020

Encounters: Saul's Conversion

Passage: Acts 9:1-19

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Encounters with Jesus

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: love, see, darkness, change, light, serve, transform, blind, enemy

Nobody is too far for God’s Grace. The infinitely transformative power of the Gospel is enough to utterly invert even the hardest of hearts; enough to transform even me. I am not too far from Him, his arm is long enough and hands powerful enough to reach me and remake me. Are you in a Saul phase where you are in vital need of transformation? Or Ananias-phase where God wants to equip and empower to love and transform others by His Power, for His glory?

5.24.20 GBV Online Service from Grace Brevard on Vimeo.

Order of Worship

PRELUDE: True Detective

CALL TO WORSHIP: Isaiah 35:5-8 & 2 Corinthians 3:14-16

MUSIC: Trust You Jesus, The Solid Rock, We Will Feast in the House of Zion

PRAYER: Psalm 130

Central Text: Acts 9:1-19

MESSAGE: Encounters: Saul's Conversion

Benediction: John 12:46 

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • Isaiah 35
  • 2 Corinthians 3:14-16
  • Ezekiel 12:2
  • 1 Timothy 1:12-16
  • Acts 7:58-60
  • Acts 8:1 1,3
  • Galatians 1:13-14
  • Philippians 1:4-7
  • 2 Corinthians 11:22-33
  • 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

MEDIA:

5.24.20 Album

QUOTES:

  • When I was coming to Christ, I thought I was doing it all myself, and though I sought the Lord earnestly, I had no idea the Lord was seeking me. I do not think the young convert is at first aware of this. I can recall the very day and hour when first I received those truths [the doctrines of sovereign, overcoming grace] in my own soul — when they were, as John Bunyan says, burnt into my heart as with a hot iron, and I can recollect how I felt that I had grown, on a sudden, from a babe into a man — that I had made progress in Scriptural knowledge, through having found, once for all, that clue to the truth of God. One weeknight, when I was sitting in the house of God, I was not thinking much about the preacher’s sermon, for I did not believe it. The thought struck me, How did you come to be a Christian? I sought the Lord. But how did you come to seek the Lord? The truth flashed across my mind in a moment — I should not have sought Him unless there had been some previous influence in my mind to make me seek Him. I prayed, thought I, but then I asked myself, How came I to pray? I was induced to pray by reading the Scriptures. How came I to read the Scriptures? I did read them, but what led me to do so? Then, in a moment, I saw that God was at the bottom of it all, and that He was the Author of my faith, and so the whole doctrine of grace opened up to me, and from that doctrine I have not departed to this day, and I desire to make this my constant confession, “I ascribe my change wholly to God.” - Charles Spurgeon