Acts 22:14-16
14 Then he said, ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you that you should know His will, and see the Just One, and hear the voice of His mouth. 15 For you will be His witness to all men of what you have seen and heard. 16 And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
God chose Saul and called him out to be Paul. He was to see the Just One (Jesus our righteousness), hear His voice to reveal God's will to us (via much of the NT), and know God's will to do and to teach to the church as it grew. So Paul bore witness to the God revealed in the face of Jesus Christ after being cleansed from his sins in forgiveness as he called on the Lord’s name to salvation. The example pattern was to be called out by God, be forgiven, call on Jesus as Lord, and follow to serve according to each one’s calling and path set out to walk in after Him.
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