#65: Acts: Peter and Paul: A Tale of Two Men

Allen Jackson Ministries

Dillon Matheny

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Unlike Peter the unschooled fisherman, Paul was well educated, sophisticated, and an emerging leader among his people. These sound like compliments, Pastor Allen Jackson says, but until Paul met Jesus, the force of his intellect and personality was used to persecute anyone who would call on the name of Jesus or even suggest that He could be the Messiah. Like Paul, our greatest strengths have the potential to be our greatest weaknesses if we are not yielded to the lordship of Jesus. But when we do come before Him in humility, and repent and lay our lives at the foot of the cross, we are released from our bondage to sin and transformed into people who are fit for joyful service in God’s Kingdom. Finally, Pastor Jackson describes the signs that we are experiencing a spiritual struggle for the heart and soul of our nation that is far more serious than a virus. This enemy will not be overcome by the scientists or politicians, he says, but only by the redemptive work of Jesus of Nazareth.

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0:00.0	Do you have the imagination that Jesus himself chose you?
0:08.0	When he looked across the span of human history, all the names and all the people and all the faces in every age and every decade and every he chose you
0:20.4	Do you serve him in that way?
0:23.0	Are you one of those default Christians?
0:26.0	I label them generic Christians.
0:28.0	We don't declare ourselves something else.
0:29.0	I'm not Buddhist or I'm not Muslim or I'm not an atheist.
0:32.0	So yeah, you know, I'm not an atheist.
0:32.6	So yeah, you know, I'm a Christian.
0:35.6	I have some slight affiliation with church and, you know,
0:39.1	the kind of the moral thing around Christianity,
0:41.2	I'm okay with that as long as it doesn't transgress what I
0:43.8	really want to do. Or do you have the imagination that Jesus himself has chosen
0:50.7	you? He knows your height and your weight and the color of your eye, the length of your
0:56.2	nose, he knows every quirk in your character because he knew you before you ever drew
1:00.0	your first breath. He knows your darkest secret that you pray never sees the light of day and he
1:09.2	knows the maximum potential of your life if you yield to him.
1:18.0	Hey guys, this is Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this episode at Alan Jackson.com
1:22.0	slash podcast.
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1:28.0	follower, leave us one of those five star ratings.
1:30.0	Hopefully that will help others find out about them as well. Now it's on to
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