Dienstag, 6. November 2012

Acts26,3 and especially so because you are well acquainted with all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore, I beg you to listen to me patiently. > He is so polide!
4 The Jews all know the way I have lived ever since I was a child, from the beginning of my life in my own country, and also in Jerusalem. > Everybody knows me [Paul is kind of famous]
5 They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that according to the strictest sect of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee. > He was one of them
6 And now it is because of my hope in what God has promised our fathers that I am on trial today. 
7 This is the promise our twelve tribes are hoping to see fulfilled as they earnestly serve God day and night. O King, it is because of this hope that the Jews are accusing me. > He is not very explicite
8 Why should any of you consider it incredible that God raises the dead? > GOOD QUESTION TO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD!
9 I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. > ones i was like them!
10 And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the saints in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them. > Extreme change of mind!
11 Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished,> [Interesting where they could be found - WHAT ABOUT TODAY - WHEE WOULD WE BE FOUND?] and I tried to force them to blaspheme. In my obsession against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them. 
12 On one of these journeys I was going to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests. 
13 About noon,>[He never forget the time ...] O King, as I was on the road, I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, blazing around me and my companions. > They could go and ask the companions - of corse they would not do that.
14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' > Jesus in Heaven spoke Aramaic :-) / Paul sais 'We' -the others heard it too.
15 Then I asked, 'Who are you, Lord?' 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,' the Lord replied. > How intens  - the being who created heaven and earth shows up with a lot of might: people fell on the ground, they were so fearful!!! and then you would hear - laying on the ground, face down, - that you are actually fighting against this being standing in heaven! WOW - what a shock!
16 'Now get up and stand on your feet. > Take on responsibility! I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you. > The vision is already here - no waiting  - but straight forward communication - I HAVE A VISION FOR YOU! A VISION FOR A KILLER! DID HE HAD SOME ISSUES TO BE WORKED OUT? YES. But Jesus is so fast!
17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. > Jesus will do the things, Paul never did - rescue - and Jesus will do things for Paul, he did not do for the early christian - rescue!I am sending you to them > he takes on Paul - HOW POWERFUL GOD IS, COMPARED TO SATAN. HE JUST WINS PAUL OVER in 2 or 3 sentances
18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.> The desire of God is to bring people into the light. GOD'S DESIRE IS TO FORGIVE!!!

Do i desire to forgive? Do i have vision for people what ever they had done before? Do i have a dream of people who come into the light? 
I think Jesus has the big picture - {i want to think about this dialog again}

19 So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven. 
20 First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles also, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and prove their repentance by their deeds. 
21 That is why the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me. 
22 But I have had God's help to this very day, and so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen- 
23 that the Christ would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to his own people and to the Gentiles. 
24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defence. You are out of your mind, Paul! he shouted. Your great learning is driving you insane. 
25 I am not insane, most excellent Festus, Paul replied. What I am saying is true and reasonable. 
26 The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner. 
27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do. 
28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian? 
29 Paul replied, Short time or long- I pray God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains. 
30 The king rose, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them. 
31 They left the room, and while talking with one another, they said, This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment. 
32 Agrippa said to Festus, This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.

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