Tag: Paul
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Barnabas
Barnabas did what Jesus asked the rich young man to do, he sold all that he had and have it to the apostles and spent his life in gospel service. According to the Bible Dictionary he was regarded like an apostle even though he wasn’t numbered among the twelve. Barnabas reminds me that priesthood manliness…
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Paul
The lesson from Paul isn’t his conversion, miraculous as that was, but rather his earnest devotion to what he thought was right both before and after his conversion. Paul threw himself 100% into whatever he felt was right. When he thought the Christians were perverting the law of Moses he persecuted then with gusto. When…
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Ananias
What kind of faith was required for Ananias to voluntarily go to Saul who he knew to be very antagonistic to the saints? I’m sure he worried about whether he would be caught and persecuted by going to Saul. He choose to exercise faith and follow the instructions he had been given. The result was…
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Philip
Philip was another of the seven and while we know less of him than we do of Stephen we do know that he was still around to give Paul a place to stay during one of his journeys and Paul testifies to the way he raised his children by the fact that his daughters had…
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Stephen
I believe that Stephen was the first martyr for Christianity. He was apparently very well versed in the gospel as he was the first to proclaim to the Jews that the law of Moses was fulfilled in Christ. This must have incensed Saul at that time although later it was a central message in the…