All right, hey, welcome to the Vox Podcast.

I'm just popping in here real quick to say,

hey, this is a bonus episode.

This is not part of our current series that comes out on Mondays on the sermon on the mount. This is actually

from a series Mike did a few years ago on reconciling faith and politics which we thought could be helpful for folks in this

current season that we're in right now. So we hope you enjoy it. We hope that it's helpful.

Without any further ado,

Reconciling Faith and Politics, Part 2. What we want to do is want to continue to talk politics and we want to talk

politics through the lens of Paul's conversion. In other words, Paul tells us a bit about himself

autobiographically and from what we know of Pharisees of Paul's Day, we have some confidence in making some assumptions about what Paul would have

expected and believed and been passionate about as a Pharisee prior to his meeting the Lord Jesus

and then what he was like after he certainly we certainly have much more insight on that

as he's writing to these kingdom communities he's developing

and planting all throughout Asia Minor but there's I think there are the lessons to be

learned from Paul's change of perspective for us. If you remember we've talked

about how for Paul the gospel you know and the hope of Israel and the Messianic

expectation all of that was political. It wasn't just a spiritual thing.

It was economic, it was social, it was political in the deepest, truest sense of the word.

And so Paul had certain assumptions

about what that was like.

And we talked last time, we ended the last time

we had this conversation on just noting

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