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Acts chapter 26 verse 18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of

Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

I love those words.

This is Paul doing what he does numerous times

throughout acts as he's being tried and accused and he's basically

sharing his testimony about when he encountered Jesus. And so this is Jesus speaking to Paul here as Paul's recounting it.

How Paul said I'm appointing you to go and to preach the gospel to the Gentiles to open their eyes so they might turn from darkness to

light from the power of Satan to God they may receive the forgiveness of sins and

a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Now obviously Paul is sharing his testimony here and it's unique in the sense that

God was calling him a certain way to the Gentiles, but the picture in a sense is the same for all of us who are in Christ, right?

Like we have been sent by Jesus, every single follower of Christ, sent by Jesus, empowered by

his spirit to share the gospel so that Jesus might open eyes to see salvation in him so that people might turn from darkness to light, from the

power of Satan to God. Like we get to do this. We get to share the gospel in a way that God opens

eyes, brings people from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, and they receive

forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus.

Like Jesus has called us all to do this. He's empowered us all to do this. He's commissioned all of us to do this.

So let's do this. Like think about we get to do this. We get to share the good news of God's love for people who are on a road that leads to an internal hell.

We get to share the good news, we get to speak the good news of God's

love in Jesus in such a way that God will, as we speak, supernaturally open eyes.

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