Sermon Notes April 26, 2015
“God’s Grace Meets the Worst Sinner” (Acts 9:1-19)
I. The church has a powerful _______________.
A. Paul’s persecution was ____________ what the
early Christians could stand against by
themselves. (Acts 8:1)
B. The church has a powerful ally who is above and
beyond the ____________. (Matthew 28:18;
Romans 8:31; Romans 8:38-39)
C. God will ____________ prevail.
II. When we _______________ God, we hurt
ourselves. (Acts 26:14)
A. Paul was following his ____________ … but it was
wrong. (Acts 26:9; 1 Timothy 1:13)
B. God had tried several times to get Paul’s
attention.
1. The first involved his old ____________.
(Acts 5:38-39)
2. The second way God tried to get Paul’s
attention was through ____________. (Acts
7:60)
3. Paul was blind to the truth of the
____________ of the early Christians.
III.A lesson about God’s _______________ and
forgiveness.
A. Paul ____________ punishment from God.
B. Instead Paul received grace and forgiveness from
the One he had been ____________.
C. God ____________ Paul for his persecutions and
____________ him an apostle to the whole world.
(Acts 9:15; Romans 5:6-8; 1 Corinthians 15:7-
10; 1 Timothy 1:12-16)