The Power of Regeneration — Keith Malcomson

The Power of Regeneration in Acts 9

Acts chapter 9 here this morning and my message the power of regeneration. Acts chapter 9 reading from verse 1 to verse 9 this morning. Acts chapter 9 verse 1. And Saul that is Paul who wrote many of the letters in the New Testament and Saul yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord went on to the high priest and desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues.

And if he found any of this way whether they were men or women he might bring them bond unto Jerusalem. And as he journeyed he came near Damascus and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven and he fell to the earth.

And he heard a voice saying unto him Saul Saul why persecutest thou me. And he said who art thou Lord. And the Lord said I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And he trembling and astonished said Lord wilt thou have me. What wilt thou have me to do. And the Lord said unto him arise go into the city and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless hearing a voice and seeing no man.

And Saul arose from the earth and when his eyes were open he saw no man but they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight and neither did eat nor drink. Let's pray here this morning father we pray for the blessing of the Spirit of God upon your word.

What is the blessing we asked for this morning. It is the genuine mighty powerful nor God wholly convicting wholly changing Spirit of God. We look for the blessing of the Holy Spirit of God. We look for the moving and the power and the search and the dealing.

We believe that your Holy Spirit moving upon the word has power to do miracles power to change lives nor God. Power to forgive power to regenerate. And Lord God make old men new men nor God. You have the power this morning right here in this gathering to forgive every sin.

Nor God to set men free nor God to set us at Liberty. We do believe in the power of your Holy Spirit that breathes upon the Word of God. And we ask for it right now. Will you breathe not only upon the Word of God but apply it to the hearts of every individual in this room this morning we bless you.

We exalt Christ and we give Christ all the glory and all the praise and all the honor this morning. Amen. Amen. My message here from Acts chapter 9 is the power of regeneration. The word regeneration in our English version of the Bible is only used twice in our New Testament.

Regeneration as New Creation and Salvation

It's once used in Matthew chapter 19 and verse 28. For what is going to happen to our world. It is a prophetic verse. And when it talks about regeneration it is talking what's going to happen to our entire world on that day when Christ comes on the clouds of heaven.

You know what he's saying. This world is going to be regenerated. That's what it says in Matthew 19 verse 28. But that's not the regeneration we're talking about. That's going to be a regeneration of our entire world.

When Christ returns again and he is returning again he is actually going to come. And I assure you when Christ places his feet upon that mountain this entire world is going to utterly change. It will never be the same.

The glory of the knowledge of the Lord is going to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. I mean every nation is going to be blanketed with the knowledge of who Christ is. All governments are going to bow the knee.

All thrones are going to be thrown at his feet. That is regeneration. What is going to happen in the future on a global worldwide scale. But I'm not talking about that. I am talking about regeneration.

Yes. But I'm not talking about that particular regeneration. I am talking about something that happens now to an individual one man one woman very personally. And it's like the world being regenerated.

But it's on a personal individual basis. Listen to me very carefully. Don't turn there. But I want you to listen this. This is the second time the word is used in our Bible in Titus chapter 3 and verse 5.

Listen carefully what it says. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he saved us. This verse is talking about salvation getting saved that God shows an individual mercy and he saves them.

But listen the next sentence. How does he save you. How does he reveal his mercy to you. How does he reach down and show you mercy. Or how does he save you from your sin. And from yourself and from the devil and from an eternity in hell.

How does he do it. Well he tells you by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost. How does he save you by regeneration or by renewing. Another words this word regeneration is talking about getting saved or have an experience with Jesus Christ where you are radically changed.

And the next verse it goes on which he shed upon us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior. Please notice here this scripture that's talking about regeneration or the power of regeneration. It's the same as being saved or being renewed by the Holy Ghost.

Or in verse 7 it says that being justified by his grace it is being justified or made righteous or put in a right relationship with God. Now hold this all for a second. I'm going somewhere. I'm going to Acts chapter 9 but I've got to explain this.

What is regeneration. It's an old-fashioned term we have used in every spiritual revival for 500 years apart from our generation. In my lifetime they threw it out they updated the language and don't talk about regeneration anymore.

Do you know what regeneration is. It's the born-again experience. It is being saved by the grace of God. It is a divine encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ where all of your sins are forgiven and you are radically changed.

Listen carefully here as we just introduced this message the word regeneration is the Greek word palen jessania. Get that Genesis in there palen jessania. What does the word regeneration means. Do you know what they how they use this word in the first century in the days of Christ and the Apostles.

Listen they use this word palen jessia all across the Roman Empire in the Greek language. Do you know how they used it when springtime came. In other words it was the change that took place right across nature when winter is left behind and spring begins.

That is palen jessia. Or that is regeneration when that season of death of barrenness of darkness of coldness is left behind and a new season begins to break anew. What this word regeneration means is a break and forth of new life.

It means a new beginning or a new season or a time to begin to grow. The Greek word regeneration means rebirth restoration or a total renovation of everything. I mean when it happens to an individual your emotions are going to be renovated.

Your choices your will is going to be renovated. Your desires are renovated. How you think is renovated. Your speech is renovated. Your actions are renovated. This is regeneration. Or we could also say to be born again of the Spirit of God.

Do you know Christ said you must be born again. Do you know Peter the Apostle talked about being reborn of the Spirit of God. John the Apostle preached many times over to be born of God. There is a experience of being birthed of God or being born again.

We know right across our cities and our nations and even in our families. Most of you sitting before me were sprinkled as as little babies. Do you know what the priest or minister said over you as he sprinkled that little bit of water upon your blessed blessed head.

I can assure you he actually said this child is regenerated. This child is made new. This child is now a member of the body of Christ. This child has a new nature. That's what the church out there says that a child sprinkled by water can become regenerate within him.

I want to show you by good experience in Limerick City of the thousands I've met who have had water sprinkled on their head. They still blaspheme Christ. They still hate their neighbor. They're filled with bitterness anger adultery immorality fornication.

They curse like a trooper. The old this. I have never known a nation like Ireland for blasphemy amongst the older generation. The little granny who's the most religious person on the whole street. She blasphemes more than British soldiers do.

I promise you that is the truth. I have never heard a nation blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ more than this particular one. Well they're all regenerate. Aren't they. Or are they. They're absolutely not my friends as I bring you to Acts chapter 9 here this morning what it is regeneration.

It is the new birth or an experience with Christ where he changes everything. Or regeneration is the life of God within your soul. It is a resurrection from the dead. It is the Spirit of God coming to live within you.

It is the life of God coming to change your life in a radical and a simple way. From Acts chapter 9. I have three points for you here this morning. And my first point in showing you what regeneration is and the conversion of soul of Tarsus.

Saul of Tarsus as a Religious Sinner

And this my first point. A portrait of a sinner. A portrait of a sinner. I believe Acts chapter 19. Acts chapter 9 is painting a portrait of what it means for a sinner or somewhat. A portrait of a sinner is revealing what a sinner looks like.

Who's gonna be regenerate. Who was Saul. Who we find in Acts chapter 9 experiencing regeneration. Let me tell you. He was a Jew. I mean a Jew. I mean a religious man. He was a Hebrew of the Hebrews. He was of the tribe of Benjamin.

And notice with me he was called Saul of Tarsus. Do you realize. King Saul was from his tribe. And there was only ever one King came out of Benjamin. And that was King Saul in the Old Testament. And here you have this little baby as a child circumcised on the eighth day was called Saul after King Saul of the tribe of Benjamin.

He was a son of a Pharisee trained under Emilio the greatest Bible teacher of that generation. He was very close to the Sanhedrin the 70 religious leaders over all of Judaism. He was more than that. He was not an atheist.

He was not a lawbreaker. He was a trained theologian. He devoured the Bible that we have in our hands the Old Testament. He knew it inside out back to front. He believed that he prayed that he left that he was zealous over it.

I mean he was a trained theologian. He could quote up entire books if not entire chapters. He was a religious zealot. He was fanatical about the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. He was fanatical about keeping the Ten Commandments.

You're not to lie. You're not to commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not envy a man's wife. He was utterly consumed with morality and righteousness. He believed in God. He believed in a judgment day.

He believed in heaven and hell. He believed there was going to be a reckoning with the real God. He believed in repentance. He believed in holiness. But do you know who this sinner was in Acts chapter 9.

He was more than that. Listen he was a vicious persecutor of the real Church of God. Do you know about two or three years ago I was driving down a common street and I saw a site that is engraved upon my mind this morning.

I've never forgotten it. I believe I saw a soul of Tarsus who is yet to be regenerated. I believe he was the chief of sinners on this high street. In fact I believe he was one of the worst sinners this city has ever seen and I can still see the picture of him in my mind.

I'll never forget him. I'll never forget seeing him just as he walked on that high street. It is written on my mind. You say was he a drug seller. No. You say was he a murderer. Absolutely not. You say was he a liar and a blasphemer.

No. You say was he an atheist. No was he a Muslim. No do you know what he was. He was a young I would say about a 19 year old Jesuit priest. And I'll never forget the look in his eye. I wish you in this room had the look that he had in his eye.

He was holding his rosary beads. And as he walked on that street he didn't see any building didn't see any car didn't see any person. And he is determinedly walking down with his black going down to his feet.

And he's marching down that street praying holding that rosary bead. I'll never forget the look in that eye of determination of other radical fanaticism of other dedication. He is not a man playing a game.

And you know what. As soon as I saw him I didn't mock him. I'm not making fun of him this morning I said that's a man I want to see regenerate of the Spirit of God. I believe there you have the chief of sinners.

And a man for whom Christ died by his good works by his religion and by his morality. He may think that he is serving God and yet he doesn't realize how far away that he is from the God of the Bible. You see remember who this sinner is I'm telling you about.

He is a man who eventually would write 14 books of the New Testament. He would be the apostle to the Gentiles. He would raise up churches all the way from Israel through to the nation of Spain. He was the pioneer of the gospel.

He saw the crippled healed instantly the lame the dead were raised. He's seen multitudes born again of the Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit being out poured upon him. I want to paint for you briefly a portrait a picture of the true soul of Tarsus.

Because you know what you will never know the power of regeneration. You won't even believe me about the power regeneration if I do not paint a picture for you of what sort of sinner this religious theologian this radical fanatical man who believed in the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob.

If you don't see him for what he is you'll never believe my message. You see I believe regeneration isn't man's work to get to God. I don't even believe it's. It's talking about your responsibility of repentant and of believing and of seeking after Christ regeneration.

It's God's work towards a man when he saves him. I believe in repentance. You know I do. I preach it with all my heart. You know I believe to seek the Lord with all of your heart and to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

But what I'm talking to you about is God's perspective on regeneration. Listen to me as I paint a portrait of this sinner and Acts chapter 19. The first mention of Saul of Tarsus is at the end of Acts chapter 7.

And listen to me I'm gonna briefly cover 26 different scriptures that describe a portrait of a sinner called Saul of Tarsus 26 verses. And in those 26 verses are 21 actions by the sinner against the church against the truth and against Jesus Christ.

You have this story repeated in Acts 9 chapter 22. And again in chapter 26 the first mention of Saul is at the end of Acts chapter 7 and we see him assisting in the brutal murder of Stephen one of the first Christian preachers of the church at Jerusalem.

Listen to what it says. And they cast Stephen out of the city and they stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man's feet whose name was Saul. And they stoned Stephen.

The first time you see Saul what's he doing. He's standing with respect with authority with absolute radical religious determined venom. And he's 100 sincere. Never you mock the sincerity of a Muslim or a Jesuit.

I tell you God takes note of sincerity even in the heart of a sinner's heart. Those who sin against him ignorantly. He does see it. But the first time we see Saul he is there assisting the murder of Stephen.

I mean an on-fire Holy Ghost preacher a man with the power of God upon him. And what do you see of Saul. He is assisting the murder of this great preacher of the gospel. I mean Stephen was an Apostle Paul in the making.

If if he had not died I believe he would have had a greater ministry than the Apostle Paul. And yet we see him getting stoned to death for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Also we see him consenting on to death.

The Word of God said he consented on to the death of Stephen. Do you know the word consenting means with pleasure to approve of it. He was applauded the death let him die. In fact it was according to the Word of God.

You see Saul thought he was serving God. He said I've got scripture for this Deuteronomy 17. Here are the witnesses. They heard him they saw him their witnesses. We are doing this biblically and they are caught up with religious seal.

You know what they're doing. He is consenting on to the death of Saul. Not only assisting but he is consenting and saying go to it guys go to it guys. I'm totally behind you. And Acts chapter 8 verse 1.

And Saul was consenting on to his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the Church of Jerusalem. Do you know at this time was the beginning of a major citywide persecution of every gathering of Christians of every preacher and of every individual Christian man or woman young or old.

Do you know who was behind it. Saul of Tarsus. He was the driving force behind this. It goes on there to say. And all the Christians were scattered abroad throughout the region of Judea and Samaria except the the Apostles.

This was a major scattering of all the Christians within a city who'd done it. Saul of Tarsus. I want you to see who he is because I'm gonna show you a man regenerate by the Spirit of God. Can God get a hold of such a man.

I mean can God break in on a sinner in this city. Absolutely. The Bible also said he voted when they were put to death. I gave my voice against them. He was very vocal. He was audible. He was voting. We talk about voting in these days.

You ought to vote. Here is Saul saying I'll vote for the death of a Christian preacher. Let him die. Let him die. It says in chapter 8 verse 8 Saul. And notice it said Saul not just one of many Saul made havoc of the church.

It means to thoroughly destroy to ravage to to utterly devastate. And to continue doing it day after day and week after week. It goes on to say that he entered into every house. He broke into homes. He bust the door in.

He walked in on a family meal. And he hailed men and women away to prison. Do you know what that old word hailing away means. It means violently pulling dragging to forcibly make them come with you. Do you know that it actually says three times that he not only done it to men he done it to women.

Three times it said that he would grab the women and drag them out of the homes and drag them off to be punished. Do you realize Saul of Tarsus was so radical. He had no thought about femininity. Men often read the letters of later on as a Christian Apostle.

And they say I think Paul had a problem with women. Oh no you don't know what this man got saved out of. I assure you he was no women's rights man before he got saved. You ladies would not have wanted to meet this man on a dark night down down an alleyway.

I can assure you you see it states that he did this on women as well. He had no respect from women. Our four women. Do you know that. That's religion. There is no respect. Show me real Christianity. And I'll show you a remarkable respect for women.

And don't tell me the world out there respect women in this generation. They are destroying what a woman is. They hate femininity. They're undermining it. So we don't know what a man and a woman is anymore.

Do you know Paul could care less about women. The weaker sex. He had no respect for them at all. And it says that he committed them to prison four times he said he threw men and women into prison. He done it.

He dragged them there. He voted against them. He had them thrown in prison. Who were they. Husbands wives fathers children's brothers sisters. I mean the best Christians in Jerusalem. You know what they've been saved and revival.

They've had outpourings of the Holy Spirit and not church. They've had twelve apostles preaching to them every week for six years. That's the church that these Christians come out of. They are born again.

They are well taught. They are filled with the Holy Spirit. They've had revival after revival after revival. And they're spreading everywhere. And you know what he's doing. He is putting them in prison.

That's what this man is doing. And soul yet breathing out threatenings in Acts chapter 9 where we come to here this morning and verse 1 soul yet breathing out. You know that word breathing what it means in the Greek.

It doesn't mean just to breathe out. It means your life. Breath to inhale. In other words every breath. This is how you live. You can't live without this. This is your breath life. This is what motivates you.

This is what makes you get up in the morning. This is what makes makes you put all your money and energy and effort. This is what it is breathing out. Threatenings. Do you know what it it's like for someone to threaten you.

If you do that I'm gonna do this to you. He actually breathed out and he inhaled and he lived by threats against Christians. I'm gonna do this to you. You know if you sat down with Saul all he ever talked about was threats.

I'm gonna destroy that church. I'm gonna put them in prison. I hate them. I'm gonna annihilate the name of Christ since I'm showing you the power of regeneration. But you've got to see a man who actually experienced real genuine regeneration.

His breath life is to breathe out threats against real Christians and slaughter. In other words he not only threatened. These weren't just words. You know I've had people before. The one morning we ran a Bible school.

We ran the school here in Limerick and we got back to Cork. And early in the morning I got up and I had about seven messages. Thank God I turned my mobile off at night. Always make sure you turn that thing off.

But I got up early before Candace was awake and I start listening to him. There's 40 of us and we're coming to get you and the next school. You're gonna run. We're gonna destroy you. We're gonna attack.

You're not gonna run that thing. The last thing I heard he was thrown in a prison in Belfast for attacking a policeman. This is a guy who said he was born again. He talked in tongues. He prophesied cast out demons healed the sick.

But he was an absolute drunken rogue. Be very careful. You see Saul not only threatened he breathed out slaughter. That means killing and murders three times. He's associated personally with killing Christians.

He not only said it he actually done it. He went to the high priest and desired letters for Damascus. He wanted to travel to foreign cities strange cities at a distance. I'll go 200 miles. I'll travel a hundred miles.

I'll annihilate this gospel. I don't believe it. I don't believe a word of it. I believe it's heresy. I utterly rejected. I'm utterly contrary to it. This is the sort of man we're dealing with in Acts chapter 9.

You know most of us Christians we hear Paul writing in his last letters. I'm the chief of sinners. And we have sort of take that very lightly. And we say oh yes. I know what he said. We all feel like I'm the chief of sinners is not right.

We get born again ago. Oh yes I'm the chief of sinners. And we think he's saying the same. Isn't Paul being humble that great godly preacher. And he's being very humble sin. I'm the chief of sinners. I was the worst sinner.

And we assert ago he was a religious nice moral guy. No he wasn't. When he said I don't deserve to be called an apostle. I am the least of all the Apostles. He wasn't being humble. He is saying I ruined the church.

I destroyed the church. I have blood running up my hands. This is the sort of man that displayed and preached regeneration by the grace and the mercy of God. It actually says here that he bound men five times.

He says he bound them. In other words they tied their hands and their feet with fetters chains and ropes including women. He put chains on women to drag them to prison in the hope that they would die for their belief in Jesus Christ.

He actually wanted to hinder them restrict them to stop them to confine them to shut their mouths and to shut them away from influence 13 times. It says he persecuted the church. This is the first mention that he persecuted the church.

What does it mean. He's. He made them to fly away. He drove them away. He pursued them harassed them troubled them molested them. It says he done much evil against the saints of God. What is evil to do badly to them.

They are saints of God. They they will not retaliate. They will not take revenge. They don't break the law. They won't take the law into their own hands. And he hated them. You know how many Christians he saw face-to-face before they died.

Do you know how many homes he broke into. And as he separates husband from wife he must have heard their prayers. I'm praying for you Saul. I'm praying for you. We love you Saul. We God loves you. Jesus Christ died for you.

Can you imagine the enraging of this man. The anger the bitterness. I'm gonna stamp this thing out. You know it means that he abundantly done evil. He did not minimize. He did not water down his message.

I will destroy this. It says he punished them. Are you getting the picture here this morning am I painting the picture. He punished them means to take vengeance hold on. What did they ever do to you. What did those Christians ever do to you.

I'm gonna take vengeance on them. I hate them. I'm gonna kill them. What the Christian ever do to you. Do you see what happens with a sinner. When the devil gets a hold of his heart and the flesh that fall in nature is motivating them and pushing them.

They'll say I'll take vengeance against you. I'll treat you like the worst criminal in Limerick City. I love you. I'm praying for you. I care about your soul. I hate you. I am showing you what the nature of a sinner can be.

It says that he compelled them to blaspheme the name of Jesus. He forced them. He used mental torture. He manipulated their emotions. He tried to put pressure on them spiritually. And it says that he was exceedingly mad he was.

I've had a fierce rage or a fury. Do you know this man blaspheme. You say he didn't believe in blasphemy. Oh yes. He blaspheme Christ because he didn't believe Christ was God. He didn't believe Christ was the Messiah.

He was abusive evil speaking against Christ. He spoke against the Messiah the Savior. He trampled over the blood of Christ. You know one thing with regeneration. What it does. It improves the language.

It improves the language. You see I've got a full-proof way of telling how an Irishman. I mean in a split second they're gonna you lose an awful lot of their vocabulary. That's what happened to Saul of Tarsus.

I believe he was a blasphemer. But that vocab went in the bed on the day that he experienced regeneration. And it also says he was injurious that through violence he wanted to do permanent I mean permanent harm to individuals that you will never recover from.

Do you realize that he was the main force behind the persecution in Jerusalem. He was the main persecutor. He dominated the city of Jerusalem. He then spread out over entire regions to every city. And his name was known all across the early church.

All of them knew about him. All of them were praying for him. But very few believed he was going to be converted. You see sometimes you catch the fish and you don't believe. You've caught the fish. Because you say that could never happen.

You threw the net out and it's always empty. All of a sudden you try to pull that thing in and it's so full. I don't believe this can happen since I tell you God conceived the worst of sinners. And you stand so shocked so unbelieving so skeptical.

You say how can this possibly be. Is this not regeneration that God will save those you're praying for who you least expect. A portrait of a sinner. Secondly a portrait of a true conversion. Let me explain here what regeneration is.

What it looks like in the life of Paul. We've seen a portrait of a sinner. This is what a sinner looks like. Oh he was very moral. I'm trying to say that Jesuit. I want him for the kingdom of God. See that look in his eye.

That look in his eye. He believes what he believes. That isn't some old priest playing around with kids. No no that's that's. That's something altogether different. That isn't someone hypocritical standing down the road going through the motions of religion.

That young 19 year old Jesuit priest. He believes this radically. He will die for this. He will suffer for it. My God save him by the grace and mercy of God. But a portrait of a true conversion. Three times we have Paul's conversion in the New Testament and acts 9 acts 22 and acts 26.

And several other times he mentions it in his letters. Listen this portrait of a true conversion in chapter 9 verse 3. Let me give you several points of what is involved with regeneration. When someone like Saul gets regenerate you see you may not have the conversion of Saul.

I don't. If any of us have had a conversion quite like Saul none of us would claim that. And yet I believe they're all the marks with his conversion is what every true Christian experiences when they're converted.

All the same marks. Let's look at it here. First of all a sudden divine revelation. Verse 3. And as he journeyed he came near to Damascus. Do you realize he's just traveled about 150 to 200 miles. I'm not sure the guy even slept at night.

Maybe it took six days to travel. He traveled through the heat of the Sun every day. If the other guys must have be said come and take a break. No no. We're going to Damascus. Paul can wait. No there's no time date.

I must get to Damascus. I've gotta get there since he was just outside the city of Damascus. Look what it says in verse 3. And suddenly I believe this is one of the great marks of regeneration is a sudden divine revelation.

It says as he was outside the city just to break upon it with a fury and do what he'd done at Jerusalem. I mean he's burning. He's absolutely breathing out. Those guys are sick of hearing his threats.

But look at him outside the city it says. Suddenly there's shined around about him. This isn't his work. This is the work of the Spirit of God. This is regeneration from heaven. This is God reaching down and saying I'm gonna save a man.

You know what it says. Suddenly there's shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth. Solitarsis. This is your day of regeneration. You'll never be the same again. After this a sudden divine revelation.

Do you know what regeneration is. It comes suddenly. You're on the way to do evil. You're on your way to sin. You're doing what you've always done every day. But not on that day. Suddenly from heaven there is a power let loose from heaven.

Since I'm tired of sinners prayers. I'm tired of people said well sure. Just believe. And that's you. Fine. I believe in the power of regeneration. Where there's a work from heaven. Suddenly. Suddenly.

Oh well I'm just growing interest. No. Suddenly from heaven the heavens open. Second thing. A revelation of light. Note here it says. Suddenly there's shined around him a from heaven a light shone on him.

Not only suddenly from heaven it was light. But this light wasn't any ordinary light. You see in light there's truth always there's truth. This is God's light that shines on to a man in a moment. It says that the light shone brighter and higher than the noonday Sun.

It happened at noon in the middle of the day. Suddenly there was a light brighter than the Sun. To any of yous know anything brighter than the Sun. To anything you know. To any of yous know that there is there anything that could blind you physically quicker and easier than stopping and looking into that Sun.

Your eyes will never be the same again. No doctor will repair them. I assure you the Sun is the brightest thing. No it's not. No it's not. The Sun is as nothing compared to the light and regeneration.

When God's shines his light on an individual you see it happened suddenly. And a light comes from heaven from Christ. And it shines on a sinner. I mean he's a rebel a murderer a blasphemer. He hates Christians.