Acts 22:1-3ab
“Brethren and fathers, hear my defense which I now offer to you.” 2 And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Hebrew dialect, they became even more quiet; and he said, 3 “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated under Gamaliel, strictly according to the law of our fathers,

5 Forces that Shaped Paul
1. His Race: “I am a Jew.”

5 Forces that Shaped Paul
1. His Race: “I am a Jew.”
2. His Culture: “brought up in this city”

5 Forces that Shaped Paul
1. His Race: “I am a Jew.”
2. His Culture: “brought up in this city”
3. His Education: “educated under Gamaliel”

5 Forces that Shaped Paul
4. His Professional Associations

Acts 22:4-5
I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,5 as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

5 Forces that Shaped Paul
5. His Feelings.

Acts 23:1 “I have lived my life up to this day with a perfectly good conscience.”

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Text PRAYER to 619-375-0805
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