Il y a des moments o\u00f9 nous rencontrons des personnes qui font obstacle \u00e0 la parole de Dieu. On peut leur parler de J\u00e9sus Christ, mais elles ne pr\u00eatent pas attention et certains vont jusqu’\u00e0 combattre l’\u0153uvre de Dieu. C’est ainsi que certaines \u00e2mes sold\u00e9es au mal peuvent devenir des chr\u00e9tiens z\u00e9l\u00e9s, capables de porter la parole de Dieu au-del\u00e0 des fronti\u00e8res.<\/p>\n
Dans le livre des Actes des Ap\u00f4tres, nous d\u00e9couvrons Saul de Tarse, qui \u00e9tait avant tout un ennemi de la foi en J\u00e9sus Christ. Mais par une rencontre d\u00e9terminante, sa vie sera transform\u00e9e \u00e0 jamais. C’est de cette transformation divine que nous allons parler.<\/strong><\/p>\n Saul de Tarse \u00e9tait un Juif, originaire de Tarses en Cilicie, au nord-ouest de la Syrie, actuelle Turquie. Il voulait pers\u00e9cuter tous les disciples de J\u00e9sus Christ jusqu’\u00e0 ce qu’il rencontre lui aussi le Seigneur. Saul avait re\u00e7u une formation rigoureuse aupr\u00e8s de Gamaliel, un docteur de la loi qui le consid\u00e9rait tr\u00e8s hautement. Saul avait \u00e9t\u00e9 un fervent d\u00e9fenseur du Juda\u00efsme et il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 tr\u00e8s irrit\u00e9 par l’apparition du Christianisme. Mais la rencontre qu’il a faite avec J\u00e9sus Christ sur le chemin de Damas a boulevers\u00e9 sa vie.<\/p>\n Saul \u00e9tait parti en mission pour pers\u00e9cuter les chr\u00e9tiens \u00e0 Damas. Il avait nourri une haine profonde pour les disciples, afin de les arr\u00eater ou de les faire emprisonner. Mais en cours de route, une lumi\u00e8re \u00e9blouissante lui a fait perdre la vue. Il a donc \u00e9t\u00e9 conduit en ville par ses compagnons de voyage, o\u00f9 il a \u00e9t\u00e9 incapable de voir pendant trois jours. C’est dans cette situation que Saul a re\u00e7u une vision du Seigneur et qu’il a compris que J\u00e9sus \u00e9tait r\u00e9ellement le Fils de Dieu.<\/p>\n La transformation de Saul a pris du temps. Saul est devenu Paul. Sa conversion n’\u00e9tait pas une simple formalit\u00e9, ou une d\u00e9marche d’int\u00e9r\u00eat personnel. Sa vie a \u00e9t\u00e9 transform\u00e9e \u00e0 un niveau fondamental, \u00e0 partir de sa vision et de sa r\u00e9v\u00e9lation de J\u00e9sus Christ. Sa transformation a \u00e9t\u00e9 remarquable, et surtout divinement orchestr\u00e9e par Dieu. Le Seigneur l’a utilis\u00e9 pour porter la nouvelle de J\u00e9sus Christ aux gentils que nous sommes. Paul est devenu le prototype de l’ap\u00f4tre chr\u00e9tien, fid\u00e8le porte-parole de J\u00e9sus Christ, o\u00f9 qu’il soit all\u00e9.<\/p>\n Dieu a pris l’ennemi le plus acharn\u00e9 de l’\u00c9glise et l’a transform\u00e9 en ap\u00f4tre, afin qu’il puisse \u00eatre un instrument qui a conduit des millions de gens, de partout dans le monde \u00e0 J\u00e9sus Christ. Et nous aujourd’hui, nous pouvons voir \u00e0 travers l’histoire de Paul, que rien n’est impossible \u00e0 Dieu. Alors que nous sommes souvent confront\u00e9s aux difficult\u00e9s de la vie, cela devrait nous donner de l’espoir et de la confiance pour continuer \u00e0 croire que Dieu travaille toujours, m\u00eame dans les situations les plus difficiles.<\/p>\n The Lord is able to change every human nature, transforming a persecutor into a worshipper of God. We can all feel God's presence in our lives, the very presence that changed Paul's life.<\/strong><\/p>\n Il est important de continuer \u00e0 croire en l’\u0153uvre de Dieu dans nos vies, peu importe ce qui nous arrive. La transformation divine peut manifester dans nos vies de mani\u00e8re tr\u00e8s subtile, ou tr\u00e8s visible. Nous pouvons avoir confiance que Dieu travaille toujours, m\u00eame lorsque nous ne voyons pas Son plan dans l’instant pr\u00e9sent.<\/p>\n Let us continue to trust in Him and He will use us for His work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n May the Lord bless you abundantly.<\/p>\n Pasteur Cl\u00e9mentine<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The faithful spokesman for Jesus Christ: Saul of Tarsus was a Jew.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enseignements-biblique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paroledevie.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}