# SAUMC VB Sunday School 2022-10-02 MTC Did You Hear What Happened to Paul Lesson #7 Canonical watch page: https://twitch-nude.com/watch/22-10-02-mtc-did-you-hear-what-happened-to-paul-lesson-7-v162500 Language: en Published: 2022-10-03T16:18:59+00:00 Source creator: SAUMCVB Online Duration: 3119 seconds ## Description Adult Bible Study Lesson Series Outline – Lesson 7 Reference: Chapter 9 More Than A Carpenter by Josh McDowell I. Did you hear what happened to Saul? A. The Resurrection is the most important aspect of our faith. B. We do not have eyewitnesses that observed the resurrection Sunday morning. So how do we convince ourselves that the resurrection is not a hoax but an historical event? II. Circumstantial evidence. This is evidence that when considered in total, persuades us that the resurrection happened. A. The conversion of skeptics is one of the most powerful pieces of circumstantial evidence that the resurrection is an historical event. 1. James, the half-brother of Jesus was a skeptic and did not believe Jesus was the Messiah. 2. Paul was not only a skeptic but also a persecutor of the Way. a. Why was Paul so vehemently anti-Christian. b. Something happened to Paul that changed him. How did he change? Scripture and references Part II.A.1 James, the half-brother of Jesus, was a skeptic who did not believe Christ was the Messiah. John 7:1-5 James and his brothers made fun of Jesus ministry. They did not believe in the miracles or His mission before His crucifixion. I Corinthians 15:3-8 Paul says James saw Jesus alive after the resurrection. This is the reason he changed what he believed about his brother. James became a leader of the Christian church in Jerusalem, wrote the Epistle of James in our New Testament, and died a martyr in 62AD. Part II.A.2 Paul was a skeptic and persecutor of the Way. Acts 21:37-40 Paul was raised in a Hellenistic culture, which gave him education, the opportunity of privilege, and the ability to speak at least three languages. Acts 25:6-12 Paul was a Roman citizen. Acts 22:3-5 He was educated in the school of Gamaliel, a leading Pharisee and member of the Sanhedrin Acts 23:6 At one point, Paul was a member of Jerusalem’s Sanhedrin. Acts 7:54-60 He was part of the crowd that stoned Steven, the first Christian martyr. II.A.2.a Why was Paul so vehemently anti-Christian? Paul was devoted to the Law, which was his way to salvation. The Christian’s belief in Christ as the way for salvation robbed Paul of his. Galatians 1:13 He was passionate in exterminating Christians. Acts 26:9-11 Paul pursued the death of Christians. Acts 8:3 Paul literally laid waste to the Christian church. II.A.2.b How did Paul’s conversion change him? Acts 9:1-12 Paul saw Christ alive on the road to Damascus and was changed forever. Acts 9:17-22 Paul’s relationships with Jesus’s followers went from persecutor to friend and colleague. Acts 9:26-30 His life’s mission changed from persecuting the Christians to winning people for Christ, especially among the Gentiles. His intellectual convictions changed from his rabbinic Messianic ideas to understanding the significance of Jesus’s resurrection. He went form a Gentile “hater” to a missionary to the Gentiles. Paul spent his entire life doing everything opposite of who he was before meeting the resurrected Jesus. I Corinthians 9:1 He called himself an Apostle because he had seen Christ alive. Galatians 1_11-12 The Gospel he taught was not something he made up. He received it directly from the risen Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:21-31 No one was more Jewish than Paul. Yet he gave up his Pharisaic beliefs, enduring lashes, shipwrecks, jail time, starvation, thirst, cold, nakedness, death threats, and dangers from men because he believed in a risen Lord. This page provides video metadata, not a transcript. Watch the video on the canonical page.