Paul’s Conversion and Calling: The Life and Theology of Paul with Guy Waters

Paul was on his way to Damascus to apprehend Christians fleeing from persecution. Yet little did he realize that the Lord had been shaping his entire life for this decisive moment. In this message, Guy Waters considers the details of Paul’s conversion and calling on the Damascus road and draws connections between this event and the testimony of every Christian.
This message is from Dr. Waters’ 12-part teaching series The Life and Theology of Paul. Learn more: www.ligonier.o...

[@ogmakefirefiregood]

I was strung out, homeless, and alone. I began to contemplate the perfection of Jesus. Then it was if I had touched the hym of His garments. KABOOM! LIKE A LIGHTNING BOLT! The Lord saved me. Looking back, I can still feel the echoes of that moment reverberating through eternity. Praise God for His glorious Grace!

[@michellecheriekjv4115]

Amen...Wow that's incredible you said that....that's exactly what l wrote in my Book....when the Holy Spirit came...it was like a trumpet blast echoing thru Eternity. God Bless...📖🌷

[@Robert-is5dz]

Each believer's conversion is submission of their heart and soul to Christ which regenerates our Hearts to turn to the Grace and Will of God

[@rhondae8222]

Thanks for sharing the story of Paul's conversion.

[@jessyjonas4988]

Paul preached that KNOWING CHRIST IS ABOVE ALL

[@jessyjonas4988]

“ Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. “ Philippians 3:8 Paul was gloriously saved and henceforth preached JESUS CHRIST alone

[@stuartjohnson5686]

"I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards; and He must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why He should have looked upon me with special love." - Charles Spurgeon "Election makes known the fact that salvation is God’s free gift, gratuitously bestowed upon whom He pleases. This must be so, for those who receive it are themselves no different from and no better than those who receive it not. Election allows some to go to hell, to show that all deserved to perish. But grace comes in like a dragnet and draws out from a ruined humanity a little flock, to be throughout eternity the monument of God’s sovereign mercy." ~ Arthur Pink, "The Doctrine of Election" "God is Sovereign in the exercise of His love. Ah! that is a hard saying, who then can receive it? It is written, 'A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from Heaven" (John 3:27). When we say that God is Sovereign in the exercise of His love, we mean that He loves whom He chooses. God does not love everybody; if He did, He would love the Devil. Why does not God love the Devil? Because there is nothing in him to love; because there is nothing in him to attract the heart of God. Nor is there anything to attract God's love in any of the fallen sons of Adam, for all of them are, by nature, "children of wrath" (Eph. 2:3). If then there is nothing in any member of the human race to attract God's love, and if, notwithstanding, He does love some, then it necessarily follows that the cause of His love must be found in Himself, which is only another way of saying that the exercise of God's love towards the fallen sons of men is according to His own good pleasure." -- A. W. Pink

[@jessyjonas4988]

“Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.” Philippians 3

[@kengreene5212]

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[@burningheartsministriesmis1488]

Is conversion the New birth? Or was he born again when he was baptized in water and filled with the Spirit? JN 3:5 Titus 3:6-6

[@keananfischer8113]

With Saul/Paul he was born again when Jesus opened his eyes on Damascus and had the apostle set hands on him to give him his sight back as a sign to him because he was a Jew. God did the same thing (born again) slightly diffrent for the Jew and Gentile for signs to His people. The Jews seemed to need to be baptized and or hands layed on them to recieve the Spirit most of the time. And the Gentiles recieve the Spirit right away and then get water baptized. Paul said for we all have been babtized into one baptism (baptism of the Holy Spirit). Thats the only babtism we really need to be considered with. (Not taking away the commandment of the Lord for water babtism though). Either way it's all God's doing to call you out of darkness and make you born again! He called Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Paul, anyone he has ever saved. Not by our works or even our knowledge of him because we all fall short and sin. He calls us from his Grace and Mercy!

[@sandman9390]

🤔 If we look @ John 3:3 it seems as though we must be born again...i.e. "from above" to even "...see the kingdom of God"...without God God drawing us first(Jn.6:44) & regenerating us, or causing us to be born from above, then how can we be saved?....obedience FOLLOWS regeneration (Ephesians 2:8-10)