This—all this—Paul knows. He knows it by faith. He knows it by Jesus. Paul has been called by Jesus, He has been made new by Jesus, and He has been shown just how much he must suffer for the name of Jesus . . . and in so many different aspects of his life and ministry, Paul has come to reflect Jesus . . . because Jesus has made His home in Paul. Paul has been crucified with Christ, and now Paul no longer lives, but the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ now lives in and through him.

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The resurrected Lord Jesus Christ meets Paul face to face, and in that one moment Saul recognizes the depth of his spiritual blindness, his entire theological worldview comes crumbling down, and he is on the ground before the Lord God of the Universe . . . whom he has been actively persecuting by persecuting those who are called by His name.

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What God has done, man cannot overturn. The Apostles preach boldly in public, they speak from within the Temple itself, and declare the wonders of God and His Son Jesus Christ.

And so it is, with one eye over our shoulder on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we might wonder just who has power in the world now? Who rules over all now? When the agents of evil, the agents of Satan, seek to silence the Lord’s chosen spokesmen, when they bring all of their power against them . . . who is victorious?

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