Who is this Paul? Part one.

Saul of Taursus. Also kinown as Paul the Apostle show in his life the wonderful work of God. Saul/Paul was a cosmopolitan Jew of his time who regarded himself as a defender of the purity of Judaism. As a defender of his religious faith, he was willing to go to extreme lengths in order to keep Judaism pure and separated from contamination by the Hellenist-Gentiles of his day. Todays broadcast will llok at Saul/Paul from the perspective of the end looking back at the beginning. Christians believe that the events of Pauls early encounter with the resurrected Jesus are determinative of Pauls thinking about man, about God and about the interaction between mankind and God as revealed in the Incarnation of Jesus. Saul was a man of high learning, who was going to teach others what they should do. He was a man who thought that he saw the truth when others did not. He was so convined of the rightness of his thinking that he was willing to travel great distances in order to lay hands on people who believed in Jesus as the Messiah. Either they would seeit his way or they would be arrested and maybe, as with Stephen, they would be stoned to death. Listen to the program and learn what God did to this Big little guy and how we may all need to get knocked off our high horses and learn life from the ground up.