Since the first week of July we have been learning from the first few chapters of Acts. Today will be the final message of nine messages in this series. Before proceeding let us recap what we have learnt so far.
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13 Monday Aug 2018
Posted Bible Study, Galatians
inThe letter to the Galatians has been a pivotal one in the lives of many Christians. The German reformer, Martin Luther, called the letter “my own epistle, to which I have plighted my troth; my Katie von Bora.” Katie von Bora, of course, was an ex-nun whom the ex-monk, Luther, married in 1525. I myself came to believe the gospel while reading Galatians. Without going into that, let us begin our study of the letter.
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06 Monday Aug 2018
Last week, in our series of messages from Acts, we learnt from Acts 9 what happened to Saul on his way to Damascus. We saw that what changed Saul from a persecutor of the church to a defender of the faith was a vision in which he saw the crucified Jesus, the one whom he believed was under God’s curse, at the right hand of God. Saul realized that God’s way of ruling and conquering was by allowing himself to be the target of human hatred and violence. Jesus conquered his enemies by allowing them to kill him. Jesus had placed himself under the curse of Deuteronomy 21.23, but by virtue of his innocence had transformed it into a blessing. And with this conviction Saul became Jesus’ twelfth apostle.
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