Paul’s Job Description

<p>PAUL’S JOB DESCRIPTION </p> <p>Acts 9 :1. Saul continued to terrorize the disciples of the Lord with murderous threats. One day he went to the high priest, saying he wanted letters of authorization he could give to those in the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any followers of Jesus, men or women, he might arrest them and bring them bound as prisoners, to Jerusalem. 3. He set off on his journey, and when he was almost at Damascus, a great light from Heaven shone all around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ 5. Saul said ‘Who are you Lord?’ And the Lord said ‘ I am Jesus, the one you are persecuting. And it has been hard for you to fight against the prodding of your own conscience.  6. Astonished and shaken up by what had happened to him he said ‘Lord what do you want me to do?’ The Lord said ‘Get up and go into the city and I will tell you what you have to do.’ 7. The men who had been travelling with him stood by, speechless, because they heard a voice but did not see anyone. 8. Saul then picked himself up off the ground and when he opened his eyes he found he could not see a thing, so his companions had to lead him by the hand into Damascus. 9. He stayed blind for three days, and neither ate nor drank anything the whole time. 10. The Lord then spoke to a man called Ananias in a vision, and said ‘Ananias, Get up and go to Straight Street, to the house of Judas, and ask for a man called Saul, whom you will find praying. I’ve given Saul a vision of a man called Ananias coming in to lay hands on him, so that he might get his sight back again. Ananias answered,’ Lord I have heard about this man from many people, and how much evil and destruction he has brought upon the saints in Jerusalem. And he has obtained authority here in Damascus from the chief priests to imprison anyone who calls upon your name. But the Lord answered him ‘Do what you are told, because he is a chosen vessel of mine, to bear my name before the nations, and before kings