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Thank you. insight.org slash donate. The Book of Acts includes a story about Paul who stood in chains before his accusers.

The men in royal robes were morally compromised. The man in shackles was spiritually free. What an irony. Well today,

on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall recounts the dramatic courtroom showdown and the speech

that Paul delivered. It's a masterful picture of choosing conviction over convenience.

Let's pick up the study in Acts chapter 26 26 verse 12. Paul was in the middle of his

speech to King Agrippa. Chuck titled his message, Standing Tall as Paul stood.

Well, so engaged as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O King, I saw something and then I heard something and then I did something.

This is a testimony from a man whose life has been transformed. And I believe it was

delivered in the most gentle, sensible manner one could imagine. I was on my way to Damascus,

pursuing Christians that may have been hiding out in the far reaches of our boundaries. And on the way, at midday, there was a light that I saw,

brighter than the sun shining all around me and those journeying with me.

And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect,

I heard it in Aramaic, my mother tongue, and he knew my name.

He called me Saul, Saul.

Why are you persecuting me?

And I said, Tisicier, who are you, sir?

Who are you, Lord?

And he said, Ego, I meet Jesus.

I am Jesus.

I saw him. I heard him.

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