Paul The Apostle With The Heavenly Calling

From the teaching 1/28/12

Paul The Apostle With The Heavenly Calling

Psa. 90:2: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Jerm. 1:5: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

 6Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.



 7But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.



 8Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.



 9Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

Gal. 1:1:Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)

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:11: But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

 12For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.



 13For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
 14And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.



 15But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,



 16To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:



 17Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.



 18Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.



 19But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

Born in Tarsus, Acts 22:3:. Tarsus, A city of Silicia, the capital of the province from AD 72, and the birthplace, and the early residence of the Apostle Paul. The city stood on the Cilician Plain, a little above sea level and some ten miles inland. The Cydnus provided an exit to the sea. Tarsus was an ancient city, the seat of a provincial Governor when Persia ruled, and in the days of the Greek Syrian Kings, the center of a lumbering and linen industry. Acts 18:3, probably refers to an associated skill, the manufacturer of a rough goat hair cloth (for tent making). During the first century, before Christ, the city was the home of a Philosophical School, a university town, where the intellectual atmosphere was colored by Greek thought. Tarsus stood at a confluence of East and West. The wisdom of the Greeks, and the world-order of Rome, mingled with the good and ill of Oriental mysticism, were deep in it's consciousness. A Keen-minded Jew, born and bred at Tarsus would draw the best from more than One World.

Acts 22:14: And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

 15For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

Acts 26:13: At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

 14And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.



 15And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.



 16But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;



 17Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,



 18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.



 19Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: