The Grace of Jesus Christ (Acts 9:1-20)

We continue our look at the seven vows we make at our baptism through the text of the book of Acts.  Today we see in Saul's conversion that the acto of baptism is an acknowledgment of the complete transformation that we undergo when we put off the old person and put on Christ.  Certainly no better example of that radical transformation can be seen than here in these twenty verses.  Whereas Saul begins at verse 1 breathing murderous threats towards those who follow Christ, by verse 20 he is proclaiming Christ as the Son of God.  So the question we must face today is, have we undergone such a transformation at our own conversion?  It's a hard question, and one that deserves our consideration.

Recorded at Hudson UMC on April 10, 2016