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Forgetting Our Regrettable Past and Looking to Our Future
Philippians 3:13 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
13 Brothers, I do not count myself as having laid hold of it: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are ahead,
When the apostle Paul was a young Pharisee, he did some extremely regrettable things. For example, he went throughout out the land with a vengeance persecuting Christ’s disciples. Immediately after he supported the martyrdom of Stephen, “But Saul [later known as Paul] was ravaging the congregation, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and would put them in prison.” (Acts 8:3) As a devout Jew, Saul [Paul] believed that it was his God-given responsibility to eradicate and destroy Christianity. Therefore, he pursued the Christians with brutal cruelty, “breathing threats and murder against the disciples of…
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