Paul experienced the new birth. He was brought from darkness to light and it is as

one who has experienced these realities that Saul will go from the Damascus road and preach Jesus Christ to others,

and did them come to Christ that they might share in the blessings that Christ has poured out on him, first of all.

Whether you experienced a dramatic conversion to Christ like the Apostle Paul,

or you were raised in a Christian home and can't remember a time when you didn't know

and trust in Christ, every conversion is a miraculous work of God. This is the Friday

edition of renewing her mind and after spending this week in Romans 8 we're turning

our attention to the work of God in the life of the man who

wrote Romans, the Apostle Paul.

And for one day only, you can own Guy Waters' 12-part series on DVD and the companion hardcover book The Life and Theology

of Paul for donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org. So what happened to Paul to turn him from a persecutor of the church

to a proclaimer of the gospel and are there lessons there for you and me today?

Here's Guy Waters.

In this lecture, we're going to look at what happened

to Saul of Tarsus outside Damascus.

We've seen that Paul's whole life up to that point

was a grand preparation for the man that God would make him by grace.

And now we want to see how grace burst into the life

of Saul of Tarsas.

Now for Paul himself, Damascus Road,

was the decisive moment in his life.

He reflects on it in no fewer than three places in his letters.

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