Jesus is calling us to put our sinful nature to death and be raised to new life—not just once, but daily. In this message, we look at someone who embraced this truth: Saul of Tarsus.
Notes:
Focus verses – Acts 7–9
Being friends with your kids is a reward you receive after being a good parent.
It is biblical to think about death.
James 4:14 (ESV)
Psalm 90:12 (NKJV)
Christopher Laurie pointed others to Jesus.
Jesus wants us to put our sinful nature to death and raise us to new life, daily.
Read Acts 7:57–8:4 (NKJV)
#1 A Man of Death
Saul cast his vote; he oversaw and led the stoning of Stephen.
Acts 26:11 (NKJV)
Saul was a man of death.
Saul was sincere. Yet he was sincerely wrong.
Saul depended on his own righteousness, and not on the righteousness of God.
Jesus saw a future apostle, a bold witness; Jesus saw Paul.
1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV)
Nobody is beyond the reach of God.
Saul was a man of death, but Jesus was calling him to put that life to death
so that he might truly live.
#2 A Man Who Had to Die
Acts 9:1–5 (NKJV)
Jesus didn’t just reform Saul, He replaced him.
Saul became Paul.
Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good.
He came to make dead people live.
Philippians 3:8–11 (MSG)
#3 A Man Who Died Daily
Romans 8:13–18 (NKJV)
“I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.”
1 Corinthians 15:31 (NKJV)
The Christian life is a daily burial of the old self.
Jesus came to make you new.
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