Title: Jesus Is Persecuted / Acts 9:1-6
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Jesus is persecuted / Acts 9:1-6
Saul went to the high priest with threats and murders against the disciples of the Lord and went to Damascus.
I asked for an official letter to go to the synagogue, because if I meet anyone who follows that way, I will bind them both men and women.
W, to bring them to Jerusalem. So Saul went as he approached Damascus, and suddenly he came up from heaven.
The light shone all around him, and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, Saul, Saul, you
Why are you persecuting me?" He answered, "Who are you, Lord?" He said, "I am the one you persecute.
Jesus said, “Get up and go into the city, and someone will tell you what to do.”
Jesus gave up the throne of heavenly glory and came into this world as a lowly and weak human body.
you have suffered Jesus also came to save His people from sin, curse, suffering, and death.
So he came to his own land, but he was not accepted by his people, but rather suffered persecution and suffering.
He received it and ultimately died on the cross. But Jesus will never be bound by death
Because God was impossible, He rose from the dead three days later. and forty in this land
After one day, he ascended to heaven and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Therefore, all the sufferings of Jesus
It's easy to think that it's over now, but Jesus' suffering was never over. Us
will see the persecution of Jesus through today's words, and Jesus
You will see your work.
Saul went to Damascus to bind the believers in Jesus. I must have come close to the stone
Then Jesus appears to him. “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
Jesus appeared to Saul, who was persecuting him. Why did Jesus tell Saul to persecute
did you show up? “Arise, go into the city, and someone will tell you what to do.”
Jesus appeared to entrust a new task to Saul, who persecuted him. Jesus
When he entrusts his work, he entrusts him with a holy work. holy work is only
Only the rich can do it. Of course, God calls the unholy to be holy first.
He makes you do it and entrusts you with a holy work. Even when God appeared to Moses
You did. Moses was never holy, even when God appeared to Moses.
I did. But God appeared to Moses, and the place where you are is holy,
told you to take it off. He set up unholy Moses in a holy place.
Now, Jesus has appeared to Saul and is going to entrust him with what to do. What Saul
is it? Jesus, who kills believers and takes the lead in arresting and imprisoning the saints
He is a persecutor. Jesus appeared to those who persecuted Him. persecute and persecute the saints
He appeared to Saul, who was persecuting the congregation. To make him holy. him
to entrust him with his holy work. Jesus persecuted Himself while being persecuted
He came to sanctify him and to entrust him with holy work.
Jesus always did. He prayed for Peter who denied and cursed himself,
He asked forgiveness for the sins of those who crucified Him.
The same goes for us. Jesus saw us righteous and holy and told us
You didn't come. When we disobey God and walk in our sins, Jesus came to us
will be To sanctify us and to entrust us with holy work. this
It's grace. We who are unholy, we who are not righteous, justified, sanctified,
It is the love of God and the boundless grace of Jesus for entrusting us with a glorious and glorious work.
Jesus appeared to Saul. And you said ‘Saul, Saul, what are you doing?
Are you persecuting me?” Who was Saul persecuting? Are you Jesus? no. four
Wool did not persecute Jesus. Jesus has already risen and ascended into heaven. Saul Pip
It was not Jesus, but a believer in Jesus. But why did Jesus say, Saul, Saul?
You didn't say, "Why do you persecute the saints who believe in me?" he said, "Persecution of me."
would you like Or would he not have said, ‘Do you persecute my name?
how? Of course, when Jesus ate the Passover with the disciples he loved earlier, he said, 'The world has
If you hate me, you must know that you hated me first.' So believers in Jesus
To persecute the people would be to persecute Jesus. But Saul is not the name of Jesus.
They are really persecuting Jesus right now. Jesus is persecuted in us
that you are saying. When we are persecuted in this world in the name of Jesus, Jesus
See us from the throne, comfort and help us? Do you think only in minutes? Of course, comfort
You help. But Jesus is certainly with us through the Holy Spirit. jesus in me
If I am persecuted because you are with me, I will be persecuted with you within me, and I will suffer.
If you do, you suffer with me now, and if I weep, you weep with me.
is. If Jesus doesn't feel and share our persecution, He who is in us
The Holy Spirit would not have a Godhead. The living God is real
Because you are We certainly believe and believe in the Holy Spirit as a living being.
Now the saints who are being persecuted by Saul and by the Jews are running around in hiding and enduring
Enduring. It is patience with faith. But Jesus couldn't take it any longer.
He appears to you and speaks to you. “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
I mean. Because the pain of the Lord who suffers with me is greater than the pain I suffer.
All. The Lord suffers the same when we suffer, but Jesus who loves us
It is because the heartache that you feel when you see the suffering of your loved ones is also great.
We remember the writings of a poet well. Looking back on the journey I've walked, it's flat
When I was walking down the good path, there were only two footsteps I walked, but it was difficult and difficult to walk on the path of hardship.
At that time, one footstep was gone. He complained and complained to God. 'week
Lord, when I am in peace and joy, you are with me, and when I am tired and sad, you leave me.
You're gone'. But then the Lord said 'Baby, you're going down the hard road
When you are sad, when you are walking on a difficult and difficult road, I carry you because I am afraid that you will suffer a lot and suffer a lot.
that it has come That one footprint is mine, not yours'.
Romans 8:26 says, “In the same way the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness.
we do not know, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”
I am writing Why does the Holy Spirit intercede with groanings that cannot be uttered? it is we
We can no longer endure the suffering we face together, and the persecution we suffer together.
He is praying with groanings that cannot be uttered because of unbearable pain and sorrow. if my
How can you pray with groanings that cannot be uttered if you do not know the pain you are going through?
Saints!
Because of Jesus, because of believing in Jesus, doing the Lord’s work, I suffer persecution in the name of Jesus
and suffering, loneliness and sorrow? Don't be lonely. that I'm alone
Don't think. Even now, Jesus is with me through all the hardships, persecutions, sorrows, and hardships.
there is So comfort me, and therefore make intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered.
that you are saying. Receive comfort through Jesus who is with me, and groan beyond words
May you always be victorious through the grace of intercession for us.