Would you join me this evening
in the book of Acts? Acts chapter 1. Join me in the book of Acts chapter
1. I'd like to read the first three
verses of Acts chapter 1 tonight. and make some comments on it.
We're going to read some other verses in the Book of Acts, but
we want to use this for our beginning. It tells us here in the Book
of Acts 1, verse 1, the former treatise have I made, O Theophilus,
of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day
in which he was taken up, after that he, through the Holy Ghost,
had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen,
to whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many
infallible proofs, being seen of them 40 days and speaking
of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. During that period
of time from his resurrection until his ascension, those 40
days, he spent a great deal of time with his disciples. And
if we have time, we'd like to go to there in another service.
But he spent a lot of time teaching them. And you know, most of those
disciples had been taught some error in their Sabbath schools. Have you ever been taught any
error in your Sunday school? I look back, I was taught all
kinds of error in my Sunday school. And I had to have it corrected.
Well, those disciples had been taught some error. They had been
taught by people who did not know the gospel. Gospel people
have an interest in the truth, but if you don't know the gospel,
a lie will just agree. You just agree with it right
away. And these 12 apostles had been taught a lie in their Sabbath
school, and that was by a bunch of people who didn't know the
gospel, and they would read the Old Testament. It's all that
they had. They would read the Old Testament. and they would
look there and they would see things about the Messiah and
things about the kingdom and they could only see it through
fleshly eyes. And so they brought that all
forward to those apostles and those apostles had some air about
Jesus Christ setting up a kingdom. They had to be corrected on that. They had to see that it was not
a physical kingdom that Jesus Christ came to set up. He came
to be a savior of his people. He came to atone for his people.
He came to do that. So we find that the Lord had
forever had plans His plans never changed, but thank God the thoughts
and the ideas that the apostles had about the Lord Jesus Christ
changed. And he was very careful to teach
them the truth about this. You and it's amazing in the scriptures
that the apostle Peter would make a confession and I love
going to that confession. I've been talking to a couple
of young men for a long time, over a period of time, and we're
always going to that Matthew chapter 16, where the Lord Jesus
Christ asked Peter, he asked the rest of the disciples, but
he asked Peter, who do you say that I am? And Peter said, thou
art the Christ, the son of the living God. And we say, hallelujah,
because that's what we confess. Thou art the Messiah. We believe
you to be the Messiah. Everything comes down to you
as the Messiah. And in about four verses of scripture,
we read that the apostle Peter was going to take the Lord Jesus
Christ aside and instruct him that he's making an error. Turn with me, if you would, to
the book of Matthew chapter 16, and read with me there. And we
find that this was so prominent, and Jesus Christ was going to
be very careful to instruct them in the ways of God more perfectly. So here in the book of Matthew
chapter 16, we read here in verses 21, 22, and 23, Matthew chapter 16 verses 21,
22, and 23. Now this is just a few verses
from that wonderful confession that the Apostle Peter has made.
And I can see the rest of the Apostles, except for Judas, saying,
Amen! Amen! That's exactly what we
believe. Gee, thou art the Christ, the
Son of the Living God. And then it tells us in verse
21 of that same chapter, just a short period of time later,
from that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples. Now,
this is not the first time. He has been going over this time
and time and time again, why he came to this earth. He came
to this earth to become a ransom for his people. He came to this
earth to be a ransom for many. He came to this earth to lay
down his life a ransom for many. He came down to fulfill the covenant
of grace. He came down to shed his precious
blood on the cross of Calvary on behalf of the sheep. I lay
down my life for the sheep. So here he is, he's instructing
them and he's just showing to his disciples how that he must
go into Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders, chief
priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the
third day." And you know, today the church says, well, hallelujah.
Everyone that is in the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Savior
rejoices in what Jesus Christ shared with us in that very verse
of scripture. It must happen this way. It was
purposed in the covenant of grace. It was prophesied in the Old
Testament. It was fulfilled in time by the
Lord Jesus Christ. And he came out of that tomb
victorious over sin, death, hell, and the grave. As a result of
him going to the cross, he came out victorious. And just in a
few short time, 40 days after that, we're going to read in
the book of Acts that he is welcome back to glory. He is welcome
back to the Father. You know what? He's going to
be a high priest that gets to sit down. at the right hand of
the father because his work is finished. He said it's finished,
it is finished. He died for his people. All right,
then Peter. Now notice this. Can you imagine
for a moment a child of God grabbing a hold of the arm of his savior
and getting prepared to rebuke him? Peter does this. And Jesus Christ
must come back. And he's going to train them
for those 40 days on this very subject. He says, and Peter took
him and began to rebuke him. Have you ever read that before? I says, oh my goodness. And you
know, it hasn't been until recently that I went through and said,
well, that just happened after he said that great confession.
And here he says, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, Be it
far from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. You know what
he had? He and the rest of the disciples,
these disciples had long repelled the thought of Jesus Christ's
death, which they clearly perceived must be a death blow to all their
Jewish dreams and their practice. They had been taught all along
by those false teachers that the Messiah, when he comes, is
going to set up a kingdom, and that kingdom is going to be,
take the place of Rome, and they'll be back like it was, and Jesus
said, no way. I never came for that purpose.
You know what we read over in the book of Romans? Jump over
there to the book of Romans chapter 14 with me if you would for just
a moment. In the book of Romans chapter 14, we read here in Romans
chapter 14 about the kingdom of God, the same kingdom. And
it tells us here in Romans chapter 14 and verse 7, the scriptures
share this. 17, oh, chapter 14, verse 17, there we
go. For the kingdom of God, Romans
chapter 14, verse 17, for the kingdom of God is not meat and
drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. What's that? It's not a what,
it's a who. That's who the kingdom of God
is. That's the Lord Jesus Christ and all his saints together.
So he was going to be careful to instruct them that he came
for the purpose of not setting up an earthly kingdom, but he
was going to set up and had always set up, and had always had this
in mind, that this is my job, my business, is to lay down my
life, a ransom, and by it I will give righteousness and peace
and joy in the Holy Ghost, and that's what we enjoy today, this
very thing. So, those 12, those 11, Judas
takes care of himself, The Lord is going to take special preparation
for all the minds of his apostles, which may be described in two
ways. He's going to teach them orally.
And he's going to spend some time teaching them. Aren't you
thankful that God spends time with us teaching us? He does
it through His Word, He does it through the preaching of His
Word, He does it through us reading His Word, but He's going to teach
us about Himself through His Word. And when someone throws
in, let me tell you about my experience, we have to say, is
it found in the Word of God? Is it right here? Because if
it's not in the Word of God, it's not sound. We have to have the
Word of God. So, and secondly, he is going
to deal with them by the coming of the Holy Spirit. Now, the
Holy Spirit is going to come in a very, very special way on
the day of Pentecost. It used to really, I'd listen
to what people had to think about that coming, and I'd say, you
know, it just doesn't make sense what they're saying about this.
And so, as we look into the Word of God, We find out that God
is going to demand continuity from the time of the Lord Jesus
Christ until after the time of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
Holy Spirit is going to make sure that there is continuity
of the truth of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He is going
to teach those disciples the truth about the cross. He's going
to teach them a truth about the kingdom of God. He's going to
teach them. So he is going to teach them in such a manner.
And you know that teaching went on in such care and such capacity
until the Word of God was finished. Now it doesn't mean that we don't
have the Holy Spirit, but now we can go to the Word of God
and make sure what we believe is from the Word of God. It has
to be from the word of God. If we don't have that, we don't
have anything. And that's what religion teaches
us, nothing. There's no truth in religion,
but there is only truth in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, as we get over here into the book of Acts, we find there
in chapter one, verses one, two, and three, I'd like to spend
a little time there now. In the book of Acts, chapter
one, beginning with verse one, we find that there is this former
treatise have I made. And most of us, most of you know
that that's the book of Luke. The book of Luke and the book
of Acts were written to the same person. Now, it's interesting. We have two books of the Bible
that were written to an individual, Theophilus. But I find his name
very interesting. His name is made up of two Greek
words. One of them is friend and the other one is God. And
his name means friend of God. I like that. And you know what?
There's another place in the New Testament that that exact,
very exact, very exact word phrase is used, but it doesn't have
Theophilus' name. And I went over there and I found
that and I said, hallelujah. That puts me in a two. This has
written me. So if you would turn with me
to the book of James, the book of James chapter two. So here
we have another Theophilus only is not mentioned by name. His
name is Abraham in this passage of scripture in the book of James
chapter two and verse 23, the scripture share this. And the scripture was fulfilled.
I like that. I don't have to be in the dark
about it. It is so clear when the Holy Spirit shares with us
that the scripture is fulfilled. Here we go, and the scripture
was fulfilled. The book of James, chapter 2,
verse 23, the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed
God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he
was called a friend of God. You know that friend of God is
exactly the same two Greek words put together in combination as
we read about Theophilus. Friend of God. Abraham is a friend
of God. Brother Drew brought us to a
passage of scripture in the book of John today, this evening,
about this very same thing. Would you turn with me to the
book of John chapter 15? In John chapter 15, We read these words. Brother
Drew just read them to us, but I would like to read them again
because they share with us that everyone that God ever saves
is a Theophilus, a friend of God. So this book is written
to us. In fact, the Bible is written
to us. Every friend of God has the Bible written to them. Everyone
that God has ever saved. Here it tells us the book of
John, chapter 15, and there in verses 14 and 15, these words. He says, well, let's back up. Drew read verse 13, greater love
hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye are my friends. If you do whatsoever I command
you. You know that word if should have been translated since. You
know, we do because God imputes us or grants us or blesses us
with doing the right thing. We have sin, but that sin has
been paid for. It has been taken as far as the
east is from the west. It is no longer brought up. So we are privileged to go in
the freedom of God's righteousness because he imputes it to us and
we're made perfect in him. He goes on here and says, Henceforth
I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what
the Lord doeth, but I have called you friends for all things that
I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Isn't that
interesting? that he would make known unto
us all the things that the father had revealed unto him. Why? Because
he said, you are my friends. And if you are a friend of God,
you're a theophilus and the word of God has been written to you.
And we rejoice in that. Thank God he wrote his word.
And thank God he wrote it to the church. And thank God he
wrote it to every individual of the church. You know, the
voice of God spoke to Cain and said, you must bring a sacrifice. Same voice spoke to, excuse me,
same voice spoke to Abel and Abel was granted faith to offer
that sacrifice and Cain was not. He was not a friend of God. Abel was a friend of God. Abraham was a friend of God.
Theophilus is a friend of God. And it tells us here in the book
of Acts that this book was written to him so that he might know,
that we might know, going back to the book of Acts chapter 1,
it tells us there in verse 1, the former treatise have I made,
O Theophilus, friend of God, of all that Jesus began to do
and to teach. You know, Jesus was able to do
and to teach the truth all the time. Now, when we open his book
and we start reading it, we have the truth. But sometimes we falter
in doing it. So we're glad that we have the
book. That's our guide. That's what we go to, is the
book. We may falter, but it doesn't
falter, it doesn't fail. He said my word will not pass
away. So we have his word. But he was
able to always do and to say the truth and he always did and
said grace, grace, sovereign grace. Wherever he went, he was
distinguishing and publishing his free and sovereign grace.
One of my favorite scenes is him to go into the pool of Bethesda,
walk up to a man that has been crippled for all his life, and
say, would you like to be healed? And the man, it went right over
the top of him, and he said, I can't get down to the water
in time. And Jesus said, stand up, rise
up, take thy bed and walk, and instantly the man walked. Now
that's free and sovereign grace. He left the scene and hundreds
of others did not feel free grace. Through all that Jesus began
to do and to teach, until the day in which he was taken up.
Now I'd like to spend a little time tonight, the rest of the
time that I have on that little name, Jesus. You know, we turn to the book
of Matthew chapter one. When they, the discussion was
by Joseph, his stepfather. Would you turn over there to
the book of Matthew as we look at this name, Jesus. In the book
of Matthew chapter one, we read about this name, this name Jesus. Matthew chapter one, verse 21.
Joseph had had a, he was in a pickle. His fiance was found to be pregnant. And he being a good man and a
just man said, I'll put her away privately. Now that man, that
word just man means he was justified. And I'll put her away privately.
I don't want to make an open show of this. And God Almighty
came to him and spoke to him through the angel and said, that
woman that you're going to marry, you go ahead and do it. You stay
away from her in a husbandly way until after she bears her
firstborn son because that son is my son and he's the holy son. And you're going to call him,
one time he's told him to call him Emmanuel, God with us, and
in verse 21 we read this, and she shall bring forth the firstborn
son and Joseph thou shalt call his name Jesus. Alright? And then he goes on to tell us
why. Thou shalt call his name Jesus. for he shall save his
people from their sins. And you know what? The church
has been rejoicing in that ever since the first time we heard
it. Thou shall call his name Jesus. Now, Jesus is a Greek
word. Joshua is the Hebrew word. And there's one place in the
New Testament where the translators got that mixed up. That's in,
I believe it's in Stephen's report. He says something about Jesus
and it should have been Joshua, but they're dealing with the
same name. But this Jesus is far greater than that Joshua,
because that Joshua died. That Joshua died because of sin.
That Joshua, even though he was a great man, and had the Spirit
of God in him, and led the children of Israel in a right way, and
he came back with a good report, he still died because of sin.
But this man, Jesus, was going to die because of sin, and because
of the sin of Joshua. Let's turn with me if you would
over to the book of Philippians chapter 2 and verse 10 as we
find this name again in the book of Philippians chapter 2 and
verse 10. It shares with us in this passage
of scripture that every knee, every knee shall bow. Philippians
chapter 2 and verse 10. It says that at the name of Jesus,
that same Jesus, his name shall be called Jesus because he shall
save his people from their sins. This same Jesus, it says here
in Philippians chapter two and verse 10. that at the name of
Jesus, every knee should bow of things in heaven and things
in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue
should confess that Jesus the Messiah is Lord. Jesus Christ
is Lord to the glory of God the Father. You know, it is a blessing
to read about Saul of Tarsus bowing. It's a blessing to read
that all throughout all time, that were saved bowed the knee
to Jesus Christ. They bowed because God granted
them the grace to bow. He bent their knees for them.
He got them started. He raised them to newness of
life. And in so doing, they were caused to bow at the name of
Jesus, at the person of Jesus, at the work of Jesus, at the
blood of Jesus, at the sovereignty of God, and relish in his great
work on their behalf. Those without him, those whose
names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life, they too
shall bow, and it will not be as joyous. For they will hear
these words, Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, for I
never knew you. All right, go back to the book
of Acts for just a short period of time, if you would, and let's
look at two or three or half a dozen other places where this
name is found. You know, in the New Testament,
the name Jesus is mentioned almost a thousand times. And in the
book of Acts, it's mentioned almost 70 times. Out of these
short verses, out of these short chapters, how many times his
name is mentioned. It means something. The name
Jesus means something. He's the Son of God. He's Emmanuel. He's God with us. Jesus Christ
is Jesus the Messiah. Christ and Messiah are the same
word. One's Hebrew, one's Greek. He's
the Messiah, he's the promised one. He never came down here
to set up an earthly kingdom. He came down here to save his
people from their sins, to make them right with God, to impute
his righteousness to them, to bring them out of darkness to
his marvelous light. That's what he purposed to do,
and he did that very thing. In the book of Acts chapter one
and verse 11, it tells us here, which also said, ye men of Galilee,
this is his ascension, He's back up, he's welcome back to the
Father. Work, job, well done. Welcome back. And his disciples, they're doing
the same thing you and I would be doing. If we had him standing
in our midst and pretty soon he's rising up and goes into
the cloud, we'd be standing up there with our eyes looking up,
what in the world is going on? And these messengers of heaven
can. The men of Galilee, why stand
ye gazing up into heaven? Now notice this, this same Jesus,
did you notice that? which is taken up from you into
heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go
into heaven. Now, what does that mean? Well,
number one, he's coming visibly. I've had people tell me he came
in spirit in 1914 and he's still here. That's not true. He's going
to come back visibly. He's going to come back so that
we can see Him. So He is going as like manner
as He went. They visibly saw Him going to
heaven. We're going to visibly see Him in the clouds. We're
also going to see that He's going to be in the cloud. And we're
going to see by His own power is He coming back. Not the power
of someone else, but by His own power He's coming back. Why?
Because all power is given unto Him in heaven and in earth. He
has all power. He will come with great power,
with the voice and the trump of God and the voice and the
sound of the archangel and the trump of God, he's gonna come.
And you know, I was taught all my life, there's gonna be a secret
coming. You can't find that in the Bible. That's pretty noisy
if you ask me. He's gonna announce his coming
because he's gonna come with great glory. And then he tells
us here, with he's going to come with like majesty as he left
he left his lord he's coming back as lord he's lord now and
forever and then he will come back with a soul and a body You
know, he left with a soul and a body. He is the son of God. He is the God man. He's sitting
at the right end of the father making intercession for his people
now. And you know, I don't, I think in my own minds, I don't think
he has to say a thing. I think he just has. Look what I did. I purchased
them. I don't have to say a word. In Acts chapter 2 and verse 21
and 22, we read this name again. Acts chapter 2 and verse 21,
it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved. Ye men of Israel, hear these
words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved
of God, among you by miracles and wonders and signs which God
did by him in the midst of you as ye yourselves know." He's
preaching on the day of Pentecost about this Jesus and who he is. He is a man approved of God. Now he was disapproved of men,
but he's approved of God. Which side of the line do you
want to be on? He was approved of God as the Lamb. Which side of the line do you
want to be on? Many people disapprove of that, but God approved of
that. He approved of His Son, and which
God did by Him. In the midst of you and yourselves,
know He had many miracles and many signs, spoke many words,
and was greatly recognized by God the Father when He said,
This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye Him! And that's the Jesus that Peter
is preaching this day. You know what? There are 11 other
preachers somewhere that very day preaching the exact same
message. Now, whether they're using the
same words, I don't know, but they're preaching Christ and
Him crucified. There's 12 preachers on that day somewhere around
that area that are preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ And we find that the people that heard them says we do all
hear in our own language the wonderful works of God. It was not gibberish. It was
the grace of God proclaimed in the name of Jesus Christ. In chapter 2 and verse 32, we
read these words about Jesus. This name, this glorious name.
This Jesus hath God raised up. whereof ye, we all are witnesses. You know why God raised him up?
Because he fulfilled all the requirements of the covenant
of grace. He paid fully and completely for all the sins charged against
his people. He paid for them so greatly and
so clearly and so sufficiently that not one sin can be found. That's what God said about it.
They shall look for their sins and cannot find them. So this
God, this Lord, this Jesus, God has raised up. Why? Because he
completed all that was required. He went to the cross. He died,
not a martyr's death, a savior's death. He died on the cross,
shed his blood, was buried, and three days later he came out
victorious because God raised him from the dead. You know what
Jesus said about it? No man can take my life from
me, but I lay it down of myself that I might take it up again.
And we read the same about the Holy Spirit, the Godhead. was
involved in raising the Son back to life. And how glorious that
is. And in the book of Acts chapter
2 verse 36, we read these words. It says, therefore, let all the
house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same
Jesus whom ye have crucified. Now look what God has made him.
Both Lord and Christ. That's what God has made him.
And you know, for the church, that's what God made him for
us. He is our Lord. He is our Christ. He's our Messiah. He's the promised one. He's the
one that was promised to Adam in the Garden of Eden. to put
away sin, to deal a death blow to Satan, to do all that was
required to put us back into fellowship with the Father. So
God hath made him the same Jesus whom you crucified, both Lord
and Christ. Now the apostles understood that
what God did with Jesus was absolutely according to plan. They understood
this was purposed. You know, God straightened them
out on that kingdom thing and said, He came to save his people
from their sins. In Acts chapter 8 and verse 35,
would you go over there for just a moment? Acts chapter 8 and
verse 35. In Acts chapter 8 verse 35 we
read this name again and it's such a glorious place that we
find it. Acts chapter 8 verse 35. You
know we're introduced here, we're introduced here to a religious
man. that has a copy of the Bible.
I went into a home one time and a lady showed me her Bible there
and she says, I'm very careful not to put any other book on
top of it. She never read it. But she was
very careful not to put another book on it. Well, this man had
a copy of the Bible. He had a copy of the Old Testament.
He had a copy of the book of Isaiah chapter 53. And God sent
Philip down there to talk to this man who had been up to Jerusalem
for to worship, but he didn't know what to worship. He was
being drawn into the religion of the Jews, but there's nothing
there to worship because the Lord himself had declared by
his death the opening up of that great, great curtain. This is over. And now God sent
a man. Now I'm a firm believer that
you and I must hear the gospel before God will ever save us. We must hear the gospel. It is
a preacher. How shall they hear without a
preacher? Today in our electronic age,
I see people in India picking up the sermon audio, I see people
in places, I have to look up on the internet, where is this? Where is this place? And we have
the gospel going out across the world in this manner. A preacher
is preaching the truth of the gospel. All right? And here,
God said, in order for this Ethiopian eunuch, who is very religious
and carrying his Bible with him, in order for him to go any further,
I must send him a preacher. And he sent unto him Philip. And Philip asked him a question,
says, do you understand what you're reading? You know what?
That man answered as honestly as the scriptures tell us, that
the natural man understandeth not the things of God, for they
are spiritually discerned. He couldn't understand. He may
understand historical events. He may understand the definition
of words, but he couldn't understand the spiritual implications of
the gospel until they're revealed to him. He has to reveal those
things to us. Faith coming by hearing and hearing
by the word of God, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God. And Jesus said, flesh and blood did not reveal this unto
you, but my Father, which is in heaven. So here we are. Philip
said, the eunuch answered Philip and said, I pray thee, of whom
speakest the prophet this, of himself or of some other man?
Then Philip opened his mouth. Oh, I love Phillips, don't you?
Those who open their mouth and have the word of God. Don't give
me works. Don't give me legalism. Don't
give me law. Don't give me all this other
stuff. Give me the word of God. That's what we need. Give me
the word of God. And he says here, he began at
the same scripture. He didn't go over to John 3.16. He stayed right there where he
was. He stayed in the 53rd chapter
of the book of Isaiah. He read it and then began at
the same place. And here we go again. Thou shall
call his name, Jesus, for he shall save his people from their
sins. Oh, and as we read over there that the name of Jesus,
every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess to the glory
of God, the father. It says here, Philip opened his
mouth and began at the same scripture and preached unto him, Jesus. the Savior, the Messiah, the
King, the Lord, the one who came on purpose, the one who had a
purpose to come for, the one who laid down his life for ransom
for many, the one who gave himself and was not taken. No man takes
my life from me. I lay it down of myself. Nobody
took his life. He gave his life. ransom and
so he made a blood atonement on the behalf of his people and
God the Father was satisfied with that blood atonement and
that's who Philip is preaching to this Ethiopian eunuch and
you know when we come to the conclusion of this story he went
on his way rejoicing. Why? Because the Lord had revealed
the Lord unto him. And that's what causes us to
rejoice. Priest unto Him, Jesus. And one
other verse I want to read, and that's in the next chapter, and
this has to do with Saul of Tarsus. Oh, mean guy. Terrible guy. You know, he's the guy we'd bolt
all our doors against. He's the guy we'd put bars over
our windows to protect our home from this guy. He's a religious
fanatic. He is breathing out threatenings
and slaughter and he means it. And God sent him to Damascus. You know he didn't make up his
mind to go to Damascus. God herded him down there. herded
him towards Damascus to go after some people that he didn't like,
God's people down in Damascus. And on the way down to Damascus,
God did something that he does to every person that he ever
saves, and that is he stops us and arrests us. He caused us
to stop in our tracks and to look at him. He said here, Verse
five, who art thou Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus. Now he heard about him. We go
back just a little bit, chapter seven, and we find out there
was a wonderful preacher of grace. His name was Stephen. And he
went down through the history of Israel and bringing out all
of their nonsense from the Old Testament. He said, you do always
resist the Holy Spirit. Your nature is that way. And
they stoned him to death and laid their coats at a young man's
name, by the name of Saul. And this man got arrested on
the way to Damascus. And you know what? When he heard
about this name Jesus, from Jesus, God broke him. He called him
Lord. And he went down there to Damascus,
a totally different man, broken. And you know what the next thing
he does after he's baptized and his eyes are open? Preached Jesus,
the only Savior. At the name of Jesus, every knee
shall bow and every tongue shall confess to the glory of God the
Father.