Saul's life was turned upside down in that moment on the road to Damascus.

And because his life was turned upside down by the power of God, the Holy Spirit,

so the world was turned upside down.

And so we have been turned upside down through the testimony that God put in his lips and in his pen that feeds the

church even to this day.

There are no boring testimonies. Every soul saved is a miraculous work of God.

Yet the conversion of Soul of Tarsus is dramatic,

and the record of it in Acts should encourage us to continue to pray for unbelievers,

even the most ardent opponents of Christianity.

Thanks for joining us for this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your

host, Nathan W. Bingham. Every Lord's Day, we feature sermons from the preaching ministry of

R.C. Sprole, who served as the first minister of preaching and teaching at St. Andrew's Chapel,

and founded Ligonier Ministries, which produces this daily outreach,

Renewing Your Mind. We're currently in a short sermon series in the Book of Acts, and if you'd

like to study the entirety of Acts, I encourage you to request a copy of R.C. Sprole's expositional

commentary at Renewing Your Mind.org with your donation of any amount.

So what happened that turned Saul of Tarsus from a persecutor of the church to one who would

be persecuted for defending and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

Here's Dr. Spraw. Recall that when we looked at the martyrdom of St. Stephen, that Saul of Tarsus was briefly

introduced as the one who gave consent to that murderous act and who stood by and held the

garments of those who murdered Stephen.

And then briefly Saul passes from sight and from interest as Luke goes on to fill us in on the narratives of the ministry of Philip among the Samaritans and to the Ethiopian

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