#762 – Union with Christ (Acts 9:5)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 10 September 2019
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We rejoice that we are united to Christ through His death and resurrection. We know that even when there are those who are against us, God is for us. He identifies with us.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | Acts chapter 9 verse 5 |
| 0:09.0 | and he said, who are you Lord? |
| 0:12.0 | And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. |
| 0:17.6 | So here is Jesus confronting Saul on the road to Damascus. |
| 0:24.8 | And as he does, Saul has this vision |
| 0:30.0 | where he hears this voice saying, |
| 0:32.6 | Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? |
| 0:36.4 | And Saul says, who are you? |
| 0:39.4 | And Jesus said, I am Jesus, |
| 0:41.7 | whom you are persecuting. |
| 0:43.2 | Now what's interesting is we don't have any accounts of Saul persecuting Jesus. |
| 0:49.8 | Instead we have accounts of Saul persecuting followers of Jesus. |
| 0:56.0 | And that is what is so beautiful about the language here in Acts Chapter 9. Because when you persecute followers of Jesus, you are persecuting Jesus. |
| 1:10.0 | Jesus identifies with his people. |
| 1:13.6 | Isn't that an awesome picture? |
| 1:16.0 | Like when our brothers and sisters who are being persecuted around the world right now |
| 1:22.1 | in North Korea, Somalia, Pakistan, different places in the world |
| 1:29.9 | where they are being persecuted, Jesus identifies with them. |
| 1:35.8 | It's almost like when I think about my kids, |
| 1:39.1 | like if you were to try to harm my kids, |
| 1:42.2 | you would be harming me. You try to harm my kids, you would be harming me. |
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