Side Characters

Fresh Life Church

Pastor Levi Lusko

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Feeling overlooked, unqualified, or unsure of what God's calling you to? Looking at the story of Saul and Ananias (a man mentioned in only a few verses who changed the course of history by his obedience) in Acts 9, Tim Ross shows us three life-altering truths: God sees what people skip, obedience doesn't require agreement, and you're not the star (and that's actually a relief!). Learn why embracing "side character energy" frees you to be powerfully used by God without the pressure of being the main character.

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0:00.0	If you have your Bibles, I'm so excited that I get to do this twice. Like, I've already
0:05.7	preached this message, but the fact that God gave it to me for fresh life, I'm just too
0:12.1	excited about it. So, Acts chapter number nine, if you go to the book of Acts chapter
0:19.2	number nine, I'm going to read this story to you.
0:22.2	It's 19 verses.
0:23.9	Deal with that.
0:24.8	I'm going to read 19 verses of the Bible, okay?
0:28.1	I have literally been at churches where the pastor apologizes for reading scripture, which is ridiculous.
0:36.9	That would be like going to a restaurant and the chef's like,
0:40.1	I'm so sorry, I'm going to put this steak on the grill. Like, I'm just cook it a little bit for
0:44.5	you. Like, what are you talking about? I expect you to do this, right? So I'm going to read the
0:49.3	Bible. But this is a story that is going to find all of us today.
0:56.2	I don't have to kind of assume that.
0:58.4	I know it's a story that found me.
1:00.4	I know it's going to find us as well.
1:03.1	So Acts chapter number nine, starting at the first word.
1:05.7	I'm reading from the Tree of Life version of the Bible.
1:08.8	It's very, very Jewish.
1:14.3	And so you were going to hear me say some terms that are literally the Hebrew terms, but I'll tell you what they mean. They're not like
1:21.5	mysterious or anything. Starting from verse number one, here's what it says. Now, Saul, still breathing out threats and murder against the Lord's disciples,
1:32.6	went to the Cohen Godal.
1:34.5	That is the high priest.
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