“THE JEWS PLOTTED TO KILL HIM!”

Acts 9:1-3                                           (ESV)

“1 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the LORD, went to the high priest

2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the WAY, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

3 Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a LIGHT from heaven shone around him. 

23 When many days had passed, “THE JEWS PLOTTED TO KILL HIM”,

24 but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates DAY and NIGHT in order TO KILL HIM,

25 but his disciples took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.”

After we leave “this world”, we continue to live through the legacy we leave in everyone we come in contact with. Our children , grandchildren, family and friends, even our enemies have the chance of exhibiting traits that are passed on by knowing us.  My maternal great-grandparents, my maternal grandparents, my mother all passed down traits that were engrafted into my life, helping form the personality I have today.  While it is true that the Brain Hemorrhage “changed” me, some say dramatically, the core person has been the same since January 08, 1978 when JESUS began the transformation process that continues to this day.  

In Acts 9:1 Saul was “still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the LORD”!  As little as 23 verses later in the chapter, Saul was being targeted by “the Jews” to be murdered because he was radically transformed and saved by JESUS!  He was the same person who WAS killing Believers, now he was being sought by “the Jews” to be silenced because of his testimony for CHRIST!  

We ALL are going to make an exodus from “this world”.  This is definitely NOT the end of our roads.  Some of us are going to hear from our CREATOR “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy LORD”, while many others will hear “I never knew you: depart from ME, ye that work iniquity.”  Imagine the ONE WHO spoke these worlds into existence declaring that HE never knew you!  Evidently some people believe that there is plenty of time for them to decide to yield to the MASTER???  

No one knows when, how, nor where their end will arrive.  “THE JEWS PLOTTED TO KILL HIM” (Saul), but he escaped their evil intentions.  According to the CDC, 2,813,503 people die every year in the United States.   That is a little over 7,700 people in America every day that don’t make it.  When is your day coming???  Have you prepared for the JUDGEMENT?  “THE JEWS PLOTTED TO KILL HIM”, but Saul became Paul, one of the greatest servants ever recorded.  What will your legacy be???