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Classic Christianity – Book of Romans P63 (03-12-25)

Faith in Jesus is The Only Way to Have Life

~ “Know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.” Galatians 2:16

There is only ONE WAY for a person to be saved, whether a TRUE HEBREW or Gentile, and that is by FAITH in JESUS. The early church, made of mostly born again HEBREWS, were known as followers of the WAY. And the word of God has been mistranslated intentionally to replace the original language words that were originally translated as Hebrews, Israelites, Judeans, with the word “J.” And regardless of that, there still is only ONE WAY to be saved, and that is to place faith in Jesus, God who became a Man, who was born a HEBREW/ISRAELITE, born of the tribe of JUDAH. Most are not aware of that truth, because of the teaching of Man that says Jesus is a “J.” And most of the time we repeat the lies without even realizing it, due to ignorance. The made-up ‘J’ word was added to the scriptures and replaced the original words Yahudah and Ioudaios in the 18th century. You can even check this for yourself, to see if those words are in the original Greek or the Hebrew text and to see how they are mistranslated in ALL the English translations. And you will see the pattern, that it does NOT even come close to matching this modern “J” word today. So how did this happen? It was done intentionally, to keep people away from the knowledge of Truth. And look at the details on this, for the details matter in everything. And as a reminder, Bob said, “not to believe him [Bob], but check everything out for yourself in the WORD of GOD.” And he said, “He could be wrong or lying to us” even though it was out of ignorance. And remember, Bob also admitted that he was wrong to begin with where he himself, early as a Christian, had also had fallen for the lie of ongoing forgiveness by God, where he repented (changed his mind) and started teaching the Truth of forgiveness. And as a reminder, most all of us fell for Satan’s lie too, at some point early in our lives, where we believed in ongoing forgiveness by God. And that teaching is still very prevalent today. And those of us who NOW know the Truth of total forgiveness at the cross, realize that nearly every brick and mortar church pastor is teaching this same lie of continual ongoing get your sins forgiven by God. And many of you have first hand knowledge of how hard pressed it is to find a local church to fellowship with TRUE believers that believe in the total forgiveness of God that occurred at the cross. For if a pastor went to a theological seminary (ALL seminaries are corrupted beyond measure), they are indoctrinated to the max by “J” teaching. And most churches have elders that also believe the lies, which hire the pastors for the local churches, so you are not going to find one that teaches Truth in the forgiveness area of doctrine, let alone the proper “J” teaching. Because seminaries themselves are nothing but cemeteries, where the dead teach others the hand-me-down lies of Satan and demons. And folks, these are not simply errors in teaching, but are definite LIES. We need to call them like they are, they are lies of the devil. They were done intentionally to lead us away from Truth, Truth of the word of God.

“Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.” John 17:17

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And a certain ruler asked Him, saying, “Good Teacher, having done what, will I inherit eternal life?”
And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good, except God alone.

~ “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.” 1 John 5:12

~ Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life; the one believing in Me, even if he should die, he will live. And everyone living and believing in Me shall never die, to the age. Do you believe this?” John 11:25,26
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We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.” For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Now may the God who gives endurance and encouragement grant you harmony with one another in Christ Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring glory to God. For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written:

“Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles;

I will sing hymns to Your name.”

Again, it says:

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

And again:

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,

and extol Him, all you peoples.”

And once more, Isaiah says:

“The Root of Jesse will appear,

One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles;

in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another. However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God. I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, and by the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

In this way I have aspired to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. Rather, as it is written:

“Those who were not told about Him will see,

and those who have not heard will understand.”

That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

But now that there are no further opportunities for me in these regions, and since I have longed for many years to visit you, I hope to see you on my way to Spain. And after I have enjoyed your company for a while, you can equip me for my journey.

Now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem to serve the saints there. For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.

So after I have completed this service and have safely delivered this bounty to them, I will set off to Spain by way of you. I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Now I urge you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there, so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and together with you be refreshed.

The God of peace be with all of you. Amen. Romans 15:1-33

Pray to God:

Do you really want to know the WHOLE Truth of what is going on today?

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7

Lord Jesus, teach me the truth of the world today and give me the wisdom to know the truth and identify the lies of the devil. Thank you God.”

~ “We’re going to turn to the 22nd chapter of the book of Acts that is in the New Testament. So I don’t know where to get there. We actually are teaching in the book of Romans, but as we approach the next to the last chapter, it was a time where the apostle Paul in the book of Romans was saying to them, to the people in Jerusalem, that I am heading in your way as we kind of review for a moment, Paul had collected a very large offering from the many of the Gentile churches, and he was going to deliver that offering to the church in Jerusalem, headed up by James the Lord’s half brother. And so last week, we talked about how, as Paul arrived in Jerusalem, that he met with James, had an audience with James and many of the leaders, and began to explain to them all of the wonderful things that had happened to the Gentile believers. We all know that Paul was the apostle that was sent to the Gentiles, and how he had gone to the Gentile world, and there was a terrific response to the gospel, and so he shared this with the church in Jerusalem.” ~ Bob George

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We’re going to turn to the 22nd chapter of the book of Acts that is in the New Testament. So I don’t know where to get there. We actually are teaching in the book of Romans, but as we approach the next to the last chapter, it was a time where the apostle Paul in the book of Romans was saying to them, to the people in Jerusalem, that I am heading in your way as we kind of review for a moment, Paul had collected a very large offering from the many of the Gentile churches, and he was going to deliver that offering to the church in Jerusalem, headed up by James the Lord’s half brother. And so last week, we talked about how, as Paul arrived in Jerusalem, that he met with James, had an audience with James and many of the leaders, and began to explain to them all of the wonderful things that had happened to the Gentile believers. We all know that Paul was the apostle that was sent to the Gentiles, and how he had gone to the Gentile world, and there was a terrific response to the gospel, and so he shared this with the church in Jerusalem.

It’s interesting to me that as we read that story, that immediately after he had shared the good news as to what had happened with the Gentiles, that James and the legalistic people in Jerusalem immediately said, Well, you know, we Hebrews have come to the Lord too, and God’s doing great things and mighty works among us, and doing good deeds and and if you just hear somebody in a bragamoni session telling about all the good Things have been taking place. I don’t care what happened those Gentiles, but here’s what took place here in Jerusalem. And again, guys, we have to again, keep in mind that you had the Hebrew world that prior to Christ’s coming, was really the only voice on the face of the earth that was dealing with teaching the one true God. Now they called God by many names, but they referred to him as, I believe as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That’s pretty much how they identified who they believed in. And until Jesus came, we really never knew the makeup of God, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, was an unknown teaching until Jesus came.

They knew that there was a plurality in the Godhead. In the beginning, God created the word is Elohim and the I Am is plural. Let us go down and confuse their language, who in the world is the US in the confusing of their language? Let us make man in our image, who in the world is the US and the OUR? And the old rabbis used to sit there, I’m sure, and scratch their heads wondering, what is this? Because it is obviously a plurality of some kind in the Godhead. And yet we believe, with all of our heart, mind and soul, that there is only one God, none before and none after. And so that was a mystery. It was acknowledged as so but it was a mystery, and it could not be explained until Jesus came. And when Jesus came, He identified the one true God as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

Now, as I said before, there’s illustrations in regard to the Trinity that I believe help us a little bit to understand the Trinity, although God is Spirit, and you must worship Him in spirit and in truth, and so you can’t put flesh and blood on spirit. And here’s what that’s where people run into problems, and you have all kinds of people teaching Jesus only doctrines, and all kinds of doctrines denying the Trinity, because we know there’s not three gods, and yet we can’t bring to our minds the three in one. And so as a result of that, we try to rationalize these things or come up with our understanding of and where the fact of the matter is you cannot put flesh and blood on spirit, and there’s where you make the problem. What does the spirit look like? We don’t have a clue. What does God look like? We don’t have a clue. But God has revealed to us that He exists in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We immediately have one guy with a big beard, and then Jesus and then the Holy Spirit. We don’t have a clue what kind of clothes to put on him, but we put some kind on him. But the issue is that God is Spirit. You can’t clothe him. He’s spirit. He was before all things. And so there’s where we run into difficulty. I’ve said to people that many times, an illustration of that is an egg. You have an egg that’s a white and a shell and a yolk. Which one’s the egg? And you say, Well, what is it? Well, it’s the yolk of the egg, the white of the egg and the shell of the egg. But yet, how many eggs are there? There’s only one. And as I said, if you had an egg in the attic and there were some people messed up down the kitchen, and the egg made a decision to send the yolk down into the kitchen to save those people, would there be any less of an egg in the house? None at all. And there was no less God. When Jesus was here on this earth, the yoke just came to this earth and dwelt among us as the only begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. And so there was nothing unusual about that. We can kind of understand that a little bit with the egg illustration. It helps with eggs. I don’t know whether it helps with God or not, but we’re trying. All illustrations fall flat on its face when it comes to the magnitude of God, but it is an illustration that we can hang on to and understand that there’s a Trinity involved in many, many things. Water as an example is another example of it.

And so what we what the Hebrews, did, was to represent this one true God on the face of the earth. Now the opposite, as we’ve talked so many times, of a Jew, is not a Christian. The opposite of a Hebrew is a Gentile. And you had lost Gentiles and you had saved Gentiles, and you had saved Hebrews and you had saved Gentiles. But the opposite of a Hebrew is not a Christian. It’s a Gentile. And all of the early Christians were all Hebrewish, as far as we know is about 18 years until Cornelius was converted, and he was the first Gentile that we know of that was converted. And so all of the early Christians for 18 some years were all out of a Hebrew background. And so today we’ve got kind of the very opposite of that, where all of the original Christians were all Hebrews and there was a remnant of Gentiles. Today you’ve got the majority of Christians that are Gentiles with kind of a remnant of Hebrews. But the issue is, there was a conflict between the two, just like today, anti semitism in many times, I believe, is built into the Lost man’s heart, because there’s no room for anti semitism in the heart of a Christian, and we have to understand that our Lord was HEBREW.

And the issue is, though there was problem between the Gentile world and the Hebrew world. The Hebrew world as an example going, if they were taking their trek from Nazareth as an example into Jerusalem, they would go way out of their way to bypass Samaria, because Samaria, Samaria was made up of people who were cross bred, so to speak, the Hebrews and Gentiles marrying each other and a Gentile type community, they wouldn’t even go through it. You couldn’t eat with a Gentile. A Gentile could not go into the into the the temple in Jerusalem, outside of the of the hall of the Gentiles, so to speak. And so they were not thought of as religious people. They were heathenistic. Most of us came out of a Gentile background, and our roots are total heathenistic, idol worshiping, heathenistic people. That’s our roots. We want to go back to our roots. It’s amazing these people who believe in predestination, that you were alive before you were born. If they always, they always were a queen of some kind. You know, always were the Yeah, it was some kind of, I was a royalty of some kind. Never a heathenistic Gentile worshiping. But that’s our roots, guys. Now there was hatred between the two. The Hebrews hated the Gentiles, the Gentiles hated the Hebrews. And so the plan of God, which Paul spells out so clearly in the book of Romans and in the book of Ephesians, that what predestination is, is that God predestined that the Gentiles would come to Christ the same way the Hebrews would. And all you have to do is read the book of Ephesians, and you’ll see that as clear as a nose on your face, that He predestined in his mind that this Gentile, heathenistic, Gentile world was going to come to Christ the same way that the religious Hebrew was, and that’s by faith in Christ, Jesus, not by their works, but by grace. It. And this was the plan of God, which is spelled out in the book of Ephesians. And if you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so with that in mind that this is what this is talking about. When you who are so far away, the Gentiles have come near, and you who are near, the Hebrews have also come near one way, by faith in Christ, Jesus. And it is a marvelous message of unity. When you see what things like predestination and election are, it’s a message of unity that he chose, that me, a hedonistic Gentile, could come to know the same God as the religious Hebrew.

And Paul had to explain these things. He explained them in many, many different ways. He said, Are you saying that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it, but we Hebrews who pursued it have not? He said, Yeah, you got it. Well, why not? Well? Because you pursued it as it were, not by faith, but you pursued it by works. And the Hebrew was trying to earn his way to heaven by his works. And the Gentile knew they didn’t have any works to earn their way to heaven. And they knew that if God was grading on the curve, they’d have to live to be at 300 to ever have more good points than bad points. And they had nothing to do except fall on their face before God and say, Lord Jesus, if you don’t save me, I won’t be saved. That was hard for the Hebrew, very easy for the Gentile. And so this, this was, this was back and forth. This this conflict. So in the book of Ephesians, and in Romans, you talk about how God made that his goal, his plan. What He predestined was to make one new man out of the two, and to save the Hebrew and the Gentile and put them into this same body of Christ, which we have here today. We have in this congregation, people out of Hebrew background, and most of us out of Gentile backgrounds. And yet he’s made us what? One in Christ, Jesus.

I’ve been working for well over 20 years with Ed heck out of a Jewish background. Never think of him being Jewish. He never thinks of me being Gentile. We’re just brothers in Christ, He made us into one, new man out of the two, and that was predestined by God. He had that in his mind all along, that God so loved the world, not just the Hebrews, but the Gentiles as well, that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life. And so Christ, Jesus came and He went to a cross. And He went to a cross in order to take upon himself the sins of the entire world. And God was in Christ reconciling the whole world unto Himself, not counting their sins against them. And where many people have made a huge mistake in their theology, is by believing that you’re saved by getting your sins forgiven. Nothing could be farther from the truth. And in Romans, it tells us that while we were yet enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son. That happened before you were ever when you were as lost as could be, you were reconciled through the death of his Son. How much more having been reconciled, shall you be saved by his what? His Life. You’re not saved by the death of Christ. You’re saved by the life of Christ.

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Now you could not be saved eternally by the life of Christ apart from the cross. The fact is, the cross is what took away the cause of spiritual death. Are we together? Death has a consequence. Sin has a consequence. What’s the consequence of sin? Death. It’s not a paddling, it’s not a woodshed, it’s death. The wages of sin. The consequence of sin is death. We were born in Adam, dead, and when you’re dead, you need what? Life. Forgiveness does not bring life. Resurrection brings life. But before he could resurrect us from our state of spiritual death, because we’re a new creation. People say, Well, we’re all created an image of God. You’ve heard that we’re all God’s children. We’re all created in the image of God. No, we’re not. Adam was created in the image of God, but in the fifth chapter of Genesis, it said, When Adam had Seth, he was born in the image of Adam. So you and I were born in the image of Adam, not created in the image of God. Adam fell, and we were born into that fallen state. Now, when are we created in the image of God? When you’re born again. If any man be in Christ, he’s what a new what? Creation, a new creation. Old things have passed away, and behold, all things have become new. So we weren’t born in the image of Christ. We had to be born again in the image of God, and that’s what happens to us when we come to Christ by faith. And when we see this testimony of Paul’s, we’re going to see that what Paul encountered was Jesus. He came face to face with Jesus, and His life was changed, born again to the Spirit of God.

And so guys, as we come to understand these truths, and we understand that had God not taken away, which he did forever the sins of the entire world. If there would been one sin that he forgot and he came and gave you life the next time you sinned that sin, you would what? Die, because the wages of sin is what? Death. The reason that I and you have eternal life is because of the eternal consequence of the cross. The only thing that could cause life to depart from you is sin. What caused the life of God to depart from Adam? Sin. What caused the life of God to depart from the physical Jesus? Sin, whose sin? Ours. What’s the only thing could cause life to depart from you? Sin, why can’t it? Not why won’t it? Why can’t it? Because of the cross, if you believe that Jesus meant what he said when he cried out from the cross, it is what? Finished. If you believe that, then there’s no sin that can cause this life to depart from you. And that’s why the issue of where you re name something and you can redefine it. Say, do you believe in eternal security? No, I believe in eternal life. You believe it’s once saved, always saved? No, I believe in eternal life. I believe that salvation is very clear, what it is, it’s life. I came that you might have what? Life I am, the WAY and the TRUTH and the LIFE. Who has the Son has life. He who does not have the Son does not have what? Life. The whole issue of salvation is bringing life to the dead. And the kind of life that he wanted to bring to the dead was called eternal life, not temporal life. And so when we come to Christ by faith and we are saved, and what are we saved from? What are we saved from guys? The consequence of sin. So what do we save from? Death by what? Life when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God did, what? Made you alive. With Christ, He forgave, what? All your sins now, that forgiveness that was provided 2000 years ago at the cross for how many people? The entire world now, see, that’s where people got into theology of saying, hey, that can’t be because if, what if, when you’re saved, just getting your sins forgiven. Why he died for the sins of the whole world? And that’d be universal salvation. We can’t have that. So he must just died for the elect. And that’s where that theology came from, out of a misunderstanding as to what salvation is, because salvation didn’t get your sins forgiven. That’s a part of it, but in and of itself, it’s not salvation. Salvation. He had to clear the deck for the divine action of bringing life to the dead. And in order to bring eternal life to the dead, he had to eternally deal with what caused death, and that was sin, and that’s why he didn’t leave one left. He took away the sins of the entire world, and not only died for our sins, but the sins of the entire what? World. Were Hitler’s sins all forgiven? Yeah, was he saved? Hope not don’t want to live with Heaven with Him.

But the issue is, were his sins taken away? Guys like I’ll be biting their elbows. The only thing that you had to do was to have brains enough to realize you were spiritually dead and accept me as life, and you were too pride and arrogant to do so. And you don’t have to be a Hitler to be pride and arrogant. You’d be sitting right in this room full of pride and arrogance, too prideful to recognize that the Bible says you’re dead and I came to give you life, and you say, I don’t want your life, you know what? If you don’t want it, he won’t give it to you. Part of the sovereignty of God was giving man a free choice. We talk about sovereignty. That’s a part of the sovereignty of God was I gave you a free will. I chose man not to be a robot. I don’t want you, Paul to love me because you have to. I want you to love me because you want to. And the Bible says that, does it not? It’s not that we love about God, but that He loved us first. God is the initiator of all things. No one initiated our salvation to God. He initiated it to me, there’s not a man alive that God did not come and try to draw him unto himself. He initiated salvation to all people. The nature testifies about it, everything testifies about it, and we respond. We’re not initiators. We’re responders. God did not make me to be an initiator. He made me to be a responder to God. And so he initiated salvation to me, and at age 36 I responded to that call of salvation and accepted Him as my Lord and Savior. And was a new creation, not just born from mom and dad, but born again by God. And so were you, each and every one of you in this room today who are in Christ, Jesus honored, above all people, to be children of the living God. Talk about blessed. And that was the plan that God had. That was the plan that he put into their minds and carried out through Jesus Christ, here on this earth.

Now you had great opposition to this man, Jesus. And as I talked about a few weeks ago, about the Jewish guy, was talking about anti semitism with it, with the film, the passion. And I said, How could it be anti semitic? You’re talking about all Jews. How could that thing be? How could you even talk about anti semitism? Jesus was a HEBREW. His followers were a HEBREW. Everybody that was converted was a HEBREW, and he was hated by a bunch of Jews. So how could that be anti semitic? It wasn’t anti semitic at all. It’s either anti high priest or anti Jesus. It wasn’t anti semitic at all. It was just which Hebrew you’re going to, which Hebrew you’re going to believe, you’re going to believe the high priest all full of legalism and pomp, or you’re going to believe this man called Jesus, who came to walk on this earth in perfect love to take away the sins of the world so that we could walk in freedom. Which one are you going to accept has nothing to do with anti semitism. It has to do with which HEBREW Are you going to pick. And so this anti semitic deal is ridiculous. People just haven’t gone back to thinking through that you’re not talking about Jew and Gentile. You’re talking about in the gospels, all Hebrew, all Hebrew. And so this little this Hebrew man, born of a virgin, came to this earth and walked on this earth, and in so doing, showed you and me what pure righteousness is, because we had a perverted idea of righteousness. We had righteousness is what I am doing for God. And Jesus came down and said, No, you’re going to watch my life and see that I walk in total dependency upon Christ, Jesus. And you’re going to see righteousness as walking by faith. And the only thing that matters is faith expressing itself through love. And you’re going to see love personified when you look into the face of Christ, Jesus, and he came to this earth, and He died on a cross to take away our sins. He died for us then so that raised from the dead, He can live in us now, and we’re alive in Christ. Paul was dead, and he’s going to give his testimony about what happened to him, because he was absolutely adamant about these Christian people following this Jesus who thought he was greater than our high priests and greater than our traditions and greater than all the laws that we keep. What kind of a man is this that has the audacity of thinking He’s greater than these people? He ain’t even out of the priestly line. He’s no Levite. He’s out of another HEBREW line. Who in the world does this guy think he is, and who in the world do these followers of his think that they are going around telling people to come to Christ, Jesus and be saved. That was the attitude of the Hebrew leadership. That was the attitude of the Apostle Paul.

And now the Apostle Paul has fallen into the hands of the Judaites people and the Romans. And so he came into Jerusalem, and they saw him in there, and they accused him of things that were false. He brought Gentiles into our temple, and they came up with all kinds of accusations about him. And we’ve seen pictures of how those people can riot in that part of the country. We’ve seen that through these wars that we’ve been able to observe, and that’s the kind of of riot, type of people that were rioting against Paul and reveling against him and crying out to get rid of him. Anger mean wanting to tear him apart, if possible. And so he, he came up and said they were getting ready to beat him. Said, what are you doing beating a Roman citizen?

So let’s pick up in Acts 22 and just pick up Paul’s testimony. He said, brothers and fathers, listen to my defense. And when they heard him speak in Aramaic, they became quiet. Paul spoke in Aramaic. Prior to that time, was speaking in Greek. So Paul was not a intellectual midget. He spoke in numerous languages, and they became quiet when they heard him speaking in the language of Jerusalem. He said, I’m a HEBREW. I was born in Tarsus, in Cilicia, but I was brought up in this city. I was brought up here in Jerusalem. I was born in Tarsus, but I was brought up in Jerusalem under Gamali, who was the leading teacher of the day. And I was thoroughly trained in the law of our fathers, and was just as zealous for God as any of you are today. I persecuted the followers of this Way. That’s what they used to call the followers of Jesus. The Way, I persecuted these people to their death, arresting both men and women and throwing them into prison, as also the high priest and all the council can testify. They know that I did this. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and went there to bring these people as prisoners to Jerusalem to be punished. Now here’s going to tell his testimony. About noon, as I came near Damascus, suddenly, a bright light from Heaven flashed around me, and I fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me, Saul. Saul, why do you persecute me? His answer was, Who are you Lord? And the voice said, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting, He replied.

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