Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and it's impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

How to know the will of God. Now take God's word and find the Book of Acts, A-C-T-S, and turn, if you would, to Chapter 9,

the Book of Acts, Chapter 9.

I want to ask you a question.

If Jesus Christ were to meet you face-to- face, literally, bodily, physically.

We're to appear in this room to you.

Well, first of all, you'd fall on your face and worship an adoration.

But suppose you could say, Lord Jesus, there's one thing I want to ask you.

What would it be?

Suppose he said to you, what do you want to know?

What would you ask him? What would your question be? Do you know what I think it would be?

I think you would ask him this question. Lord, what would you have me to do? What do you want me to do?

Now, that episode literally happened.

He appeared to a man named Saul, and that's what Saul asked him.

Look, if you will.

Verse one, in Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord went unto the

high priest and desired of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, that if he found

any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

In plain English, that means he had authorization to take Christians, put them in chains, and bring them

back to Jerusalem to be persecuted.

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