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Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 9:15

Acts 9:15 I. Saul is here a vessel. The word here rendered "vessel" may also be translated "instrument," but either reading gives a good sense. God is an infinite spring giving inexhaustibly forth; men are empty vessels receiving everlastingly of His fulness. II. He is a vessel unto Me. The vessel had been wrested that day from the power of the enemy; henceforth he will be a vessel separated unto and honoured in the service of Jesus Christ. III. "He is a chosen vessel unto Me." (1) This must... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 9:19-30

Acts 9:19-30 Damascus Arabia Jerusalem. We see from this chapter: I. The minute care which God has over His people. He gives to Ananias the street and the house in the great city of Damascus where Paul is sitting in his blindness, and sends him thither to his help. But though the commission came to Ananias supernaturally, we are not to imagine that similar things similar, I mean, in kind, though lower in degree are not occurring now. So let the people of God take comfort, whereever they are and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Acts 9:20

Acts 9:20 I. Promptitude is a pre-requisite and essential element of success. A beginning is only a beginning, and yet much depends on how it is made. Some beginnings are like the spring on the mountain side, gushing into life and flowing clearly. Some are like waters from a mossy soil, trickling, oozing, so little visible and so uncertain that you cannot tell where they begin. But here is a vigorous clear beginning; here is the saliency of a new life. That promptitude of Paul's saved him from... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 9:3-6

DISCOURSE: 1762CONVERSION OF ST. PAULActs 9:3-6. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou hare me to do?IT has pleased God to give us every... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Acts 9:11

DISCOURSE: 1763SAUL’S PRAYERActs 9:11. Behold, he prayeth.WHEN we speak of the grace of God as the free and only source of good to man, we are often misunderstood, as though we affirmed that man is wholly passive in the work of salvation: whereas, the truth is, that though, in the first instance, God puts into his heart the good desire, that desire immediately exerts itself in voluntary and earnest efforts for the attainment of the thing desired. This is discoverable in the conversion of Saul:... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 9:2

of this way that were of The Way, i.e. Christ. John 14:6. read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 9:4

me? The Lord identifies Himself with His people. read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 9:7

voice Cf Acts 22:9; Acts 26:14. A contradiction has been imagined. The three statements should be taken together. The men heard the "voice" as a sound ( (Greek - ἀναφωνέω ), but did not hear the "voice" as articulating the words, "Saul, Saul," etc). read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 9:20

that he is the Son of God Cf. Acts 2:36. Peter, while maintaining the deity of Jesus--"God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ"--gives especial prominence to His Messiahship. Paul, fresh from the vision of the glory, puts the emphasis on His Deity. Peter's charge was that the Jews had crucified the Son of David Acts 2:25-30 Paul's that they had crucified the Lord of glory 1 Corinthians 2:8. In the A.V. the sense is largely lost. The point was, not that the... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Acts 9:22

But Saul It seems probable that Acts 9:22-25 refer to Paul's labours in Damascus after his return from Arabia Galatians 1:17. The "many days" of verse Acts 9:23 may represent the "three years" of Galatians 1:18; Galatians 1:18 which intervened between Paul's return to Damascus and his visit to Peter. read more

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