Verse 6
Why had Paul conducted himself as he did? It was because God had dispelled the darkness in his heart by illuminating it with the knowledge of Himself that comes though understanding Jesus Christ. Individual regeneration is a work of God as supernatural and powerful as the creation of the cosmos (Genesis 1:3). Now Paul wanted to share that light with others. In the physical Creation God spoke directly, but in the spiritual creation of new life He usually speaks indirectly through His servants. Nevertheless it is His Word that creates new life.
"Like the earth of Genesis 1:2, the lost sinner is formless and empty; but when he trusts Christ, he becomes a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). God then begins to form and fill the life of the person who trusts Christ, and he begins to be fruitful for the Lord. God’s, ’Let there be light!’ makes everything new." [Note: Wiersbe, 1:642.]
Paul was probably alluding to his own conversion experience on the Damascus road when he wrote this verse (cf. Acts 9:3; Acts 9:8-9; Acts 22:6; Acts 22:9; Acts 22:11; Acts 26:13; Galatians 1:15-16). It was then that the apostle saw God’s glory in the unveiled face of Jesus Christ.
The sincerity, simplicity, and steadfastness of Paul that surfaces in this passage can and should mark all ministers of Jesus Christ.
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