ENCOUNTERS
- WELCOME – SERIES ON ENCOUNTERS
- STARTED 3 WEEKS AGO PALM SUNDAY
JESUS ENCOUNTERED THE PHARISEES- LAST WEEK- HYPOCRITES
- WEEK 2– MARY (SEEMED MES FAR FROM GOD- 7 DEMONS)
- WEEK 3– 2 ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS- EYES WERE OPEN
WEEK 4: BEFORE GET TO TODAYS MAIN ENCOUNTER
- LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS ENCOUNTER
ENCOUNTER: UNEXPECTED, UNPLANNED SUDDEN MEETING
- VIDEO SHOWS JESUS ENCOUNTER WITH MATTHEW
MATTHEW WAS A TAX COLLECTOR- HATED BY ALL
- MATTHEW A JEW RIPPING OFF JEWS FOR ROMANS
DEMOCRATS DIDN’T LIKE HIM- REPUBLICANS DIDN’T
MATTHEW 9:9
9. AS JESUS WENT ON FROM THERE, HE SAW A MAN NAMED MATTHEW SITTING AT THE TAX COLLETOR’S BOOTH. “FOLLOW ME,” HE TOLD HIM, AND MATTHEW GOT UP AND FOLLOWED HIM.
- “SAW” MEANS HERE- DIDN’T SPOKE TO
- DIDN’T WALK PAST
- NOTICE– GLANCE AT
- OBSERVE- RED SHIRT/JEANS
- MEANS TO RECOGNIZE AND FULLY KNOW
HE SAW AND KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT ME
MATTHEW DOESN’T MENTION THIS TILL CHAPTER 9
- KIDS WATCHED CERTAIN MOVIES OVER AND OVER
- JAS WAS YOUNG SHE WATCH SOUL SURFER A LOT
- SOUL SURFER TRUE STORY BETHANY HAMILTON
- 13 YEAR OLD BETHANY HAMILTON SURFING
- SHARK ATTACK- LOSES HER ARM
- RETURNS TO COMPETITVE SURFING
- JAS WATCHED AND WATCHED- LOVED STORY
- WET GREY RAINY DAY IN JUNE IN OCNJ
- JAS IS PROB 8 YEARS OLD
- MY PARENTS/JAS/ME. OFF IN DISTANCE NO ONE ELSE
- LOOKING DOWN BEACH-A COUPLE PEOPLE
- LITTLE GIRL- CAMERA MAN- SURFING BOARD
- THEY GET IN WATER- WE WAIT
- BEACH IS TOTALLY EMPTY
- MY DAD WALKS DOWN AND ASKS CAMERA GUY
JAS /BETHANY HAMILTON
- JAS ENCOUNTERS BETHANY HAMILTON
- UNEXPECTED/UNPLANNED MEETING
- AWE STRUCK- WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?
JEREMIAH SAW THE PICTURE-
WHY YOU SHOWING THIS- SERIES ON ENCOUNTERS
HE SAYS “YOU KNOW
- IF YOU WANNA TELL A STORY ABOUT ME- YOU CAN SHARE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE ENCOUNTER ME”
JEREMIAH
- FRIENDS MAYCEE AND ALI ENCOUNTER JERRY
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ENCOUNTERS EVER
- TO SET THIS UP AND TO SHARE
SCRIPTURE ACTS 7:54
54 When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 7:55
55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 7:56
56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
SCRIPTURE ACTS 7:57-58
57 At this they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all rushed at him, 58 dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 7:59
59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
SCRIPTURE ACTS 7:60
60 Then he fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
STEPHEN STONING
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:1
- “MEANWHILE, SAUL WAS STILL BREATHING OUT MURDEROUS THREATS AGAINST THE LORD’S DISCIPLES. HE WENT TO THE HIGH PRIEST.
Acts 9 NLT
9 Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers. So he went to the high priest.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:2
- AND ASKED HIM FOR LETTERS TO THE SYNAGOGUES IN DAMASCUS, SO THAT IF FOUND ANY THERE WHO BELONGED TO THE WAY, WHETHER MEN OR WOMEN, HE MIGHT TAKE THEM AS PRISONERS TO JERUSALEM.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9: 3-4
- AS HE NEARED DAMASCUS ON HIS JOURNEY, SUDDENLY A LIGHT FROM HEAVEN FLASHED AROUND HIM. HE FELL TO THE GROUND AND HEARD A VOICE SAY TO HIM, “SAUL, SAUL, WY DO YOU PERSECUTE ME?”
LATER MID DAY ACTS 26:13 KING AGRIPA SUPER BRIGHT
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:5-6
“WHO ARE YOU, LORD?” SAUL ASKED. “I AM JESUS, WHOM YOU ARE PERSECUTING,” HE REPLIED. 6. “NOW GET UP AND GO INTO THE CITY, AND YOU WLL BE TOLD WHAT YOU MUST DO.”
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:7
7. THE MEN TRAVELING WITH SAUL STOOD THERE SPEECHLESS; THEY HEARD THE SOUND BUT DID NOT SEE ANYONE.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9: 8-9
8. SAUL GOT UP FROM THE GROUND, BUT WHEN HE OPENED HIS EYES, HE COULD SEE NOTHING. SO THEY LED HIM BY THE HAND INTO DAMASCUS. FOR THREE DAYS HE WAS BLIND, AND DID NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING.”
NT WRIGHT PAUL PRAYING/RECITING PRAYERS
- OTHERS HAD ENCOUNTERS
WRESTLING PICTURE
- KURT ANGLE
C.S. LEWIS
CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS
AYAAN-HIRSI-ALI.
- MOVED FROM ISLAM, ATHEISM-CHRISTIANITY
2003 CONVERSION
THAT’S GREAT – JSUS ENCOUNTERED PAUL
- ENCOUNTERED SOME OF THESE PEOPLE
HE IS STILL WANTING TO ENCOUNTER PEOPLE
- ESPECIALLY PEOPLE WHO ARE FAR FROM HIM
- EVEN THOSE WHO PERCEUTED HIM
SLIDE 22: SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:11
11. “THE LORD TOLD HIM, “GO TO THE HOUSE OF JUDAS ON STRAIGHT STREET AND ASK FOR A MAN FROM TARSUS NAMED SAUL, FOR HE IS PRAYING.”
ANANIAS: REGULAR DUDE
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:12
12. “IN A VISION HE HAS SEEN A MAN NAMED ANNANIAS COME AND PLACE HIS HANDS ON HIM TO RESTORE HIS SIGHT.”
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:13
13. “LORD, ANANIAS ANSWERED, “I HAVE HEARD MANY REPORTS ABOUT THIS MAN AND ALL THE HARM HE HAS DONE TO YOUR HOLY PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM.
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:14
14. AND HE HAS COME HERE WITH AUTHORITY FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS TO ARREST ALL WHO CALL ON YOUR NAME.”
SCRIPTURE ACTS 9:15
15. BUT THE LORD SAID TO ANANIAS, “GO! THIS MAN IS MY CHOSEN INSTRUMENT TO PROCLAIM MY NAME TO THE GENTILES AND THEIR KINGS AND TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL.”
“DON’T EVER UNDER ESTIMATE THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE PERSON BROUGHT TO CHRIST. PETER MINISTERED TO THOUSANDS IN JERUSALEM, PHILIP SAW GREAT HARVEST IN SAMARIA, BUT ANNANIAS WAS SENT BY GOD TO ONE MAN. SAUL OF TARSUS BECAME PAUL THE APOSTLE, AND HIS LIFE AND MINISTRY HAVE INFLUENCED PEOPLE AND NATIONS EVER SINCE. EVEN SECULAR HISTORIANS CONFESS PAULS SIGNFIGANCE IN WORLD HISTORY.” WARREN WIERSBE
SAYING
EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST
EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE
- MATTHEW HAS ENCOUNTER-CHANGE IN DIRECTION
- PAUL HAS AN ENCOUNTER-TOTAL CHANGE
“SAUL MET THE SAVIOR AND WENT FROM PHYSICAL LIGHT TO PHYSICAL DARKNESS AND FROM SPIRITUAL DARKNESS TO SPIRITUAL LIGHT. HE WENT FROM BEING THE HIT-MAN FROM HELL TO BEING THE HOLY MAN FROM HEAVEN. GOD OPENED THE EYES OF HIS HEART.”
PAINTING VIDEO
- MAKES NO SENSE- ENCOUNTER JESUS- PICTURE MADE RIGHT
- No one came as far as Paul did to encounter Jesus, not even you.
FULLY AWARE TODAY THERE COULD BE A PAUL HERE TODAY
OR SOMEONE WHO THINKS THEY ARE JUST TOO FAR FROM GOD
- I SUSPECT THAT THERE ARE MANY HERE-
YOU HAVE SOMONE IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO ASK YOURSELF- ARE THEY TOO FAR FROM GOD?
THEY ARE SO FAR OUT THERE AND YOU ARE DOUBTFUL THEY CAN/WILL COME HOME
JESUS SAY” LOOK WHAT I DID WITH PAULS LIFE”
PAUL GETS SAVED- NEXT THING HE DOES GET BAPTIZED
BAPTISM OFFER- ITS TIME- YOU BEEN QUESTIONING- YOU BEEN WRESTLING- YOU BEEN WONDERING SHOULD I JUST DO THIS FINALLY OR I DID THIS AS A KID AND IT DIDN’T MEAN ANYTHING
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