Today we are reading Acts 9. In this chapter we read about Saul’s conversion. ”and taking food, he was strengthened. For some days he was with the disciples at Damascus. And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.” And all who heard him were amazed and said, “Is not this the man who made havoc in Jerusalem of those who called upon this name? And has he not come here for this purpose, to bring them bound before the chief priests?” But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ. When many days had passed, the Jews plotted to kill him, but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him, but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.“
Acts 9:19-25 ESV Saul went from being champion of the persecution to champion of the Gospel. The reaction of people around him is amazing! The ones he went to persecute became his friends. The former colleagues wanted to kill him. As much as he hated the Christians prior to his conversion, he was now hated by his former partners. All for Jesus. What have you endured for Jesus? Pastor Tim
