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Share Your Story - Acts 26
Locations & Times
Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 8:00 AM
Share Your Story
1. Before Jesus
2. Meeting Jesus
3. After Jesus
1. Before Jesus
2. Meeting Jesus
3. After Jesus
Part 1 – Before Jesus
“My manner of life from my youth… according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.”
Acts 26:5
“My manner of life from my youth… according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.”
Acts 26:5
Part 1 – Before Jesus
• Empty Religion
“My manner of life from my youth… according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.”
Acts 26:5
• Empty Religion
“My manner of life from my youth… according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.”
Acts 26:5
Part 1 – Before Jesus
• Chaotic Violence
“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.” Acts 26:9
• Chaotic Violence
“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.” Acts 26:9
Part 1 – Before Jesus
• Chaotic Violence
“I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.”
Acts 26:11
• Chaotic Violence
“I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.”
Acts 26:11
Part 2 – Meeting Jesus
“I journeyed to Damascus… At midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun…”
Acts 26:12-13
“I journeyed to Damascus… At midday, O King, I saw on the way a light from heaven, brighter than the sun…”
Acts 26:12-13
Part 2 – Meeting Jesus
• Calling your Name
“When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying… ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’”
Acts 26:14
• Calling your Name
“When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying… ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’”
Acts 26:14
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Part 2 – Meeting Jesus
• Confronting your Sin
“I said, ‘Who are you Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.’” Acts 26:15
• Confronting your Sin
“I said, ‘Who are you Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.’” Acts 26:15
Part 2 – Meeting Jesus
• How did Jesus call your name?
• How did He confront your sin?
• How did He comfort you with grace?
• How did Jesus call your name?
• How did He confront your sin?
• How did He comfort you with grace?
Part 2 – Meeting Jesus
• Comforting you with Grace
“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness… that they may receive forgiveness of sins…”
Acts 26:16,18
• Comforting you with Grace
“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness… that they may receive forgiveness of sins…”
Acts 26:16,18
Part 3 – After Jesus
• Personal Relationship
“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen in me.”
Acts 26:16
• Personal Relationship
“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen in me.”
Acts 26:16
Part 3 – After Jesus
• Personal Relationship
“To appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen in me and to those in which I will appear to you.” Acts 26:16
• Personal Relationship
“To appoint you as a servant and witness to the things in which you have seen in me and to those in which I will appear to you.” Acts 26:16
Part 3 – After Jesus
• Peaceful Purpose
“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness… I am sending you.” Acts 26:16-17
• Peaceful Purpose
“I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant and witness… I am sending you.” Acts 26:16-17
Part 3 – After Jesus
• Peaceful Purpose
“I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem…”
Acts 26:19-20
• Peaceful Purpose
“I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem…”
Acts 26:19-20
Part 3 – After Jesus
• Peaceful Purpose
“I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.”
Acts 26:17-18
• Peaceful Purpose
“I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God.”
Acts 26:17-18
Part 3 – After Jesus
• Peaceful Purpose
“That they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
Acts 26:18
• Peaceful Purpose
“That they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
Acts 26:18
Paul’s Story:
• From empty religion to personal relationship
• From chaotic violence to peaceful purpose
• From empty religion to personal relationship
• From chaotic violence to peaceful purpose
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