Notes: Ministers Are Saved To Share Salvation

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Henry Reyenga

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

Childhood

14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,  15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 3:14-15

 

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

Disrupted your plans

About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me.  7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’ “ ‘Who are you, Lord?’ I asked.  “ ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting,’ he replied.

Acts 22:6-8 (cf. Acts 9:3-5)

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

You were caught.

“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

“No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

John 8:10-11

 

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

You were amazed.

Utterly amazed, they asked: “Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?  8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language?

Acts 2:7-8

 

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

Abused or tormented

and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (called Magdalene) from whom seven demons had come out;

Luke 8:2

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

You were sick and healed

 When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.”

John 11:4

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

You were Religious.

 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council.  2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him.” In reply Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.’

John 3:1-3 

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it.”

John 20:24-25

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

You were searching

The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”  Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.  “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Acts 8:29-31

 

When Did God Enter Your Salvation And Calling Narrative?

Broken

Empty

Possessed

Poverty

Alone

Unloved

Hated or hating