PAUL'S TESTIMONY IN JERUSALEM (Acts 21:27 to 22:16)

In today’s lesson, we will read how Paul testified to an angry mob in Jerusalem about how he was chosen by Jesus Christ to be His messenger before all people.  His entire life up to this point had been in preparation for the task the Lord had in store for him.   Paul was to be a witness.  Notice that a witness is not an attorney.  The work of a witness is simply to testify what he has seen and heard.  That was to be Paul’s life work.  He was to bear witness to all men, not just the Jews.  He was to bear witness of the things that he had seen and heard from the voice of the Lord.   He was to see “that Just One,” the Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul saw the Lord as clearly as any other man that has ever lived.  He saw the mind of Christ.  He saw the love of Christ.  He saw the grace of Christ.  He was to “hear the voice of his mouth.”  The epistles written by Paul were breathed upon him by voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul heard not the words of man as he wrote the epistles of the New Testament, but he heard the things of God.  He heard the wisdom of God.  He heard them from the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.   Paul’s unique and remarkable view of the risen and ascended Christ colored all of his thinking about Jesus.  He could never forget what he called his heavenly vision.  To Paul, the unique thing about Jesus was that He was God, over all, blessed for evermore. That though He was Man, real and human, He was seated by sovereign right as God, at God’s right hand.   God had put Jesus on the throne of the universe.  Paul put Him on the throne of his heart.  From that point forward Jesus was Lord in Paul’s heart.  The old Saul died, crucified with Christ and buried with Him forever.  The new Saul stood in Christ on resurrection ground.  Jesus was Savior and Lord of his life. Click on the link below to hear how Paul testified of his calling, and how Jesus Christ changed his life forever. This is a live recording of The Master’s Class Bible Study at LifeChange Church Wichita, KS. Amen.