My Chosen Instrument (Acts 9:10-15) 12/13/2020
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My Chosen Instrument (Acts 9:10-15) 12/13/2020
God used Paul, who persecuted and tormented the church and its believers, as the evangelist that saved the age. In our standards, it is difficult to understand. It is especially hard to understand from the perspective of the victims. That is because it is God’s heart and God’s method. Saving, healing, and blessing me in order to save, heal, and bless the world is God’s heart and His method. Here, we are able to see God’s absolute love (Romans 5:9), absolute grace (1Corinthians 15:10), absolute power (Romans 1:16-17), absolute authority (Matthew 28:18-20), and absolute conclusion (Acts 1:8). God will give this blessing through His son Christ. That is called the gospel and covenant.
- God’s absolute love and absolute grace is the heart of God.
1) God does not want anyone to fall into judgement and destruction (John 3:16).
The Bible says that God is love (1John 4:8, 16). Jesus is compassionate toward people who are suffering (Matthew 9:35-36). He lowered himself and went through all kinds of suffering to sympathize with us (Hebrews 4:15).
2) When we realize the heart of God through our problems, our pain, and our failures, we will get to see our mission. We must see ourselves truthfully. As someone who is receiving this love and grace, what must we live for and what must we do with our lives? Paul regarded his life worth nothing if for this gospel of grace (Acts 20:24).
3) Those who truly realize God’s heart can persevere through all problems and failures.
Our pasts do not matter. Our weaknesses and incompetence do not matter. There is only one conclusion. You will save people like you. In a way, all your pain, tears, illnesses, failures, and everything else will be your specialized ministry. Having studied diligently without any pain or suffering is specialized knowledge, not specialized ministry. Paul from the passage also specialized knowledge. But with just that, you cannot save a single individual. Paul was initially a persecutor of the church. Stephen spoke about his in Acts 7. He was used as he walked through his own 40 years of wilderness.
- All we need to do is hold onto and enjoy God’s absolute power and absolute authority.
1) God has given us all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18).
① What is authority of heaven? It is the authority to meet and connect with God. How do we connect with God if we are full of sin and transgressions? That is why Christ died for us (Priest), became the way to meet God (Prophet), and crushed the power of Satan that blocks us (King).
② What is the authority of earth? It is the authority to overcome the forces that are leading this world into corruption, darkness, and pain (1John 3:8, Luke 10:19, Romans 16:20).
2) Enjoying this authority of heaven and earth is gospelization, establishment of the throne, and establishment of the summit of this age.
Why was Paul transformed at Damascus? It is because Ananias, who enjoyed the mystery of prayer, was there.
① Is it not just the gospel. It is not just knowing the gospel. It is the blessing of gospelization.
Paul experienced the gospel in his life, and the standard of his thoughts and judgement as well as his lifestyle were transformed into the gospel lifestyle. In our normal standards, Paul is not someone who we can work with. However, if He is someone that God has chosen, to do things that God desires to do, then our standards are not important (Galatians 2:20). God gives His word to those people to save others and abandoned fields, and He fulfills His word (Mark 16:20).
② Not only will we enjoy the background of heaven, but we will be able to realize the deep things of God (1Corinthians 2:10-12). This is the blessing of the establishment of the throne.
Ananias heard God’s voice in a vision. It is not important what he saw. You can feel connected to the throne while you listen to His word. You may feel God’s presence while you pray for a bit of grace.
③ We are not talking about success at the worldly level. We will become a spiritual summit that will save the world. This is the blessing of the establishment of the summit of the age.
More accurately speaking, blessings of the throne will be upon the evangelists (Matthew 28L18-20, Mark 16:20). Ananias, who have been enjoying this blessing within prayer, prayed for Paul and things like scales disappeared from his eyes. Paul was previously full of his own standards, legalistic standards, and secular standards, but in that moment, his spiritual eyes opened. Ananias helped make this happen. Joseph lived a similar life (Genesis 41:38). Samuel’s words never fell to the ground (1Samuel 3:19). Such works arose for David, who praised God (1Samuel 16:23). Individuals who experienced the blessing of spirituality were used in an important place that for the work of saving the age.
3) The blessing of the evangelist is not simply about evangelizing.
① They are full-fledged ambassadors of Christ(IICorinthians5:20). Depending on which ambassador you are, your attitude towards different nations and the work that you do will vary.
We possess the authority of Christ, break down the forces of darkness in our fields, and pray for the kingdom of God (1Peter 2:9). In this age that we live in, depression, panic disorders, addiction, psychopathic and sociopathic disorders are very serious illnesses.
② Only we, who have this gospel, can do this. God has sent us to save all people of all nations.
To Ananias who believed and prayed, God attached Paul who will be used as a historic evangelist.
③ Then, God’s absolute financial blessings will also be restored (economy of light, economy of missions, economy of the future).
- Interpret everything through God’s conclusion: evangelism (evangelism 24).
1) Through your pain, see God’s pain, and through your problems, open up your eyes to see the world.
It is the reason God named Paul His chosen instrument (verse 15). The Gentiles and the Kings of Israel who were failing without the gospel was Paul’s own past life.
2) With everyone you meet, think about whether God has a plan to save them through you (Acts 13:48).
Surely, not everyone is prepared. That is why we must always train to receive the guidance of the Holy Spirit for evangelism. It may be crucial to wait for them to open up to you, gain their trust, and wait for their time schedule. If there are things you have lost or yielded because of the gospel, you will receive a hundred-fold, and it will be stored up in heaven (Mark 10:29-30).
3) We must receive healing, answers and be used by God in order to experience the five systems of evangelism in our lives. If you enjoy the gospel even by yourself, upper room evangelism will take place. Even if you just meet one person to go with, it will become team evangelism. Your house will become a mission home for mission home evangelism. At your workplace, specialized ministry will take place. You will begin to change the spiritual flow of your region and establish a regional church.
Conclusion – Saved people of God with the gospel are the chosen ones to save this world. May you enjoy God’s absolute blessing of evangelism.