Acts 26:15-18

Faith alone pleases the Father. Our faith in Jesus sanctifies us. When we know better…we do better.

We are saved by the gift of God in the atoning, precious blood of Jesus Christ.

Acts 26:15-18

15 So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. 17 I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you, 18 to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

Paul records what Jesus said to him on the road to Damascus, elaborating both on the earlier account in Acts and what he has previously articulated during his former trials. Faithlife Bible.

Repentance indicates a complete change in thinking. Paul speaks of the “renewing of your mind.” We do what we think is best, what makes sense to us. Paul was killing Christians because he thought it was the correct course of action. Christ’s revelation changed his thoughts, but his preaching of the Good News was visible proof that he had repented of his former ways. Genuine repentance is evidenced by changed behavior.

Isaiah 35:5  Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Isaiah 42:7  To open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the prison, those who sit in darkness from the prison house.

Isaiah 42:16  I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them.

Luke 1:77  To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins,

Luke 1:79  To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”