From Darkness To Light - 4

From Darkness to Light

• Galatians 1:13

There is no darkness like religious darkness

• Matthew 6:22-23

Paul’s conversion is a “pattern” to those who are brought to Christ

• I Timothy 1:16

What did God do first?

• He stripped him from his religion

Paul gives his conversion story in Six Statements

Everything begins with God (Galatians 1:15)

• Man began with God – Genesis 1:1, 26
• Kingdom of Grace – II Thessalonians 2:13
• Love – I John 4:19
• Christ came from God – Galatians 4:4-5 
• God sent Christ – John 3:16
• The death of Christ came from God – Isaiah 53:10
• The preaching of the Gospel came from God – I Corinthians 1:21

He was the object of God’s Grace (Galatians 1:15)

• Those who are the objects of God’s grace now always have been the objects of God’s grace
• God does not change!
• Malachi 3:6
• Isaiah 46:10

God knows it because He decreed it

• Acts 2:23
• Jeremiah 1:5
• Romans 5:8
• John 6:37-39
• Romans 8:29-35
• Romans 9:21-24