Oakwood Community Church

“But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord… if he found any belonging to the Way… he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.”
Acts 9:1-2

“I not only locked up many of the saints in prison… but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them. And I punished them often in all the synagogues… I persecuted them even to foreign cities.”
Acts 26:10-11

“Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shown around him. And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’”
Acts 9:3-4

How Jesus Calls You:

1. Jesus Confronts your sins against Him

“And falling to the ground he heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’” Acts 9:3-4

How Jesus Calls You:

1. Jesus Confronts your sins against Him

“Truly, I say to you, as you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” Matthew 25:40

How Jesus Calls You:

1. Jesus Confronts your sins against Him

“Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.”
Matthew 25:46

How Jesus Calls You:

2. Jesus Commands your total surrender to Him

“Suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground… he said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’”
Acts 9:3-4

How Jesus Calls You:

2. Jesus Commands your total surrender to Him

“Rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.” Acts 9:6

How Jesus Calls You:

2. Jesus Commands your total surrender to Him

“He is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles… I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” Acts 9:15-16

“Knowing by most painful experience what deep depression of spirit means, being visited therewith at seasons by no means few or far between, I thought it might be consolatory to some of my brethren if I gave my thoughts thereon, that younger men might not fancy that some strange thing had happened to them when they became for a season possessed by melancholy; and that sadder men might know that one upon whom the sun has shone right joyously did not always walk in the light.”
~ Charles Spurgeon

How Jesus Calls You:

2. Jesus Commands your total surrender to Him

“When the gold knows why and wherefore it is in the fire...[it] will thank the Refiner for putting it into the crucible, and will find a sweet satisfaction even in the flames.”
~ Charles Spurgeon

How Jesus Calls You:

3. Jesus Commissions you to serve Him

“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to… the Gentiles… to open their eyes…” Acts 26:16-17

How Jesus Calls You:

3. Jesus Commissions you to serve Him

“I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus... and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles.”
Acts 26:19-20

How Jesus Calls You:

3. Jesus Commissions you to serve Him

“Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul.” Acts 9:11

“Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” Acts 9:15-16