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Hey, what is up? Hope you all had a great weekend. My name is Bro, and this is the Daily Drive, where we spend

a few minutes diving into God's Word Monday through Friday,

and we have been going through the fifth book of the New Testament called the Book of Acts,

and today we hit chapter 9. It's the story of a guy who we met a few episodes back. His name is Saul,

and he is a passionate and treacherous guy. He is so steeped in religion that he

really doesn't know God. And you know what? That can happen to anyone. Saul is a religious

rulekeeper, but he's also bigoted, prideful, angry, and extremely dangerous. He is determined to

eradicate this new thing called the Church of Jesus Christ, because he hates all things Jesus.

That is, until he meets him.

So Saul is hunting down anybody who wants to belong to what's referred to as the way.

He has been directed by the religious leaders to do whatever he has to do to put an end to this. But God has other plans.

Saul is taking his tour of terror on the road, and he's headed to a place called Damascus when a

bright light from heaven blinds him, like knocks him off his horse.

And he and all those who are with him, they hear a voice from heaven asking,

Saul, they saw, why are you persecuting me?

And Saul comes back with, who are you?

And the voice says, I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting. Then he tells him to get up and go to the city

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