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GRACE, Exploring Its Riches

Galatians 1:13-14
“For you have heard of my former conduct in
Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God
beyond measure and tried to destroy it. And I
advanced in Judaism beyond many of my
contemporaries in my own nation, being more
exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my
fathers.”

However, the moment Paul met Jesus, who turned his life
around, he thereafter passionately sought nothing else but
to fulfil his divine destiny, the heavenly vision. In his
invocative recall in Acts 26:9-21, Paul explained to King
Agrippa to whose royal council Paul had been summoned.

“Indeed, I myself thought I must do many things
contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. This I
also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints I
shut up in prison, having received authority from
the chief priests; and when they were put to death,
I cast my vote against them. And I punished them
often in every synagogue and compelled them to
blaspheme; and being exceedingly enraged against
them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
“While thus occupied, as I journeyed to
Damascus with authority and commission from
the chief priests, at midday, O king, along the road

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