[Music] laughing girl [Music] Bible Jesus's disciples were very busy in Jerusalem the Holy Spirit had come and they were boldly sharing the good news Jesus died for our sins with everybody I'd like to follow Jesus I'd like to follow Jesus too wow so many followers yep and now it was time to spread the good news all over the Roman world how would they do that oh God had someone special in mind for the job Peter nope John no Andrew Matthew James Simon Bartholomew no it was a man named Saul also known as Paul Saul was
his Hebrew name but outside of Israel people knew him as Paul so Saul was Paul yep and he was also a Pharisee and like all good Pharisees I want to make sure everybody follows all the rules all the time remember the Pharisees thought Jesus was Breaking All the [Music] Rules y so they had worked with the Sadducees to have him arrested they wanted to hurt Jesus and they did right well Saul was so concerned about the rules that after Jesus died he made it his job to arrest him arrest her arrest them I'm making it
my job to arrest this many of Jesus's followers as I can so Saul who was Paul was a FY and an enemy of Jesus but how could God use an enemy of Jesus to spread the good news about him all over the world because even though Paul was going one way God was about to turn him around how by stopping him in his tracks you see one day Saul was traveling to a town called Damascus hoping to find more of Jesus's disciples I'm going to arrest them I'm going to lock them up I'm going toest
when suddenly a bright light hit him right in the face oh a bright light a very bright light and then a voice from Heaven said saw why are you trying to hurt me who was it that's what Saul wanted to know and the voice replied I am Jesus the one you are trying to hurt Jesus was talking to Saul uh I mean Paul wow he must have been so surprised and even more so when he realized that I can't see I can't see a thing so suddenly Saul was blind then Jesus told him to go
to Damascus anyway and wait there why because Jesus had a follower there named ananas Jesus spoke to ananas in a dream and told him to go find Saul you mean the man that came to arrest us the one who hasn't stopped making trouble that mean man why do you want me to find him then Jesus said he is the one I'm going to use to spread the good news about me to everyone to Jews and those that aren't Jews and even to Kings so what did ananas do he trusted Jesus so when he found Sol
he prayed for him and something amazing [Music] happened I can see I can see wow then something even more amazing happened what Saul became a follower of Jesus double wow and then something even way more amazing happened what could that be hey hey Jesus is the son of God hey you Jesus is the son of God he started telling everyone about Jesus so Saul went from being Jesus his enemy to be Paul Jesus's friend and more importantly a disciple I've got to tell everybody about Jesus anywhere everywhere whatever Paul did he did with his whole
heart and now that he met Jesus he was ready for God to use him to turn the Roman world upside down first of all Paul was really smart as a Pharisee he had spent years studying and memorizing God's law and the stories of Israel second he spoke Hebrew the language of Israel Shalom and he also spoke Greek the language of the Roman Empire here and there was one more thing that made Paul perfect for the job really what he was a Roman citizen which meant I can travel anywhere Paul could go everywhere in the Roman
world and talk to anyone about Jesus right so Paul grabbed his things and I'm hitting the road ciao see you because of Paul's travels groups of Jesus followers were popping up everywhere they were given a new name Christians which means little christs and they began meeting together in groups We Now call churches wow how great is that very great though it wasn't always great it wasn't sometimes Paul was attacked by people that wanted him to stop talking about Jesus other times he was arrested and thrown in jail that that's terrible yes but God help helped
Paul in those Hard Times really yep one time he was on a ship and guess what happened uh-oh don't tell me it sank it did it did but Paul and the crew made it to an island where the local people helped them pH that was nice it was but then as Paul was building a fire he got bit by a point is a snake oh no a snake that's really terrible he's a guner but you know what Paul did he trusted God he shook the snake off and kept on working he did uh-huh when nothing
happened to Paul the people realized that they had seen a miracle they were so excited that they brought sick people to PO and God healed them wow so you see even in the hard times Paul was filled with joy God gave Paul the strength to be happy if he was full or if he was hungry if he had money or if he had none if he was free or if he was in jail no matter how many hard things happened to Paul he could be happy knowing god was with him the Pharisees and the Sadducees
on the other hand were not happy and you know why Paul was supposed to be arresting Jesus's followers yes but instead he was helping churches grow all over the place so the Pharisees and Sadducees had Paul thrown in jail and there he found out something really bad uh-oh what they were planning to kill him that's the most terrible what did Paul do I am a Roman citizen I appeal unto Caesar appeal to Caesar what does that mean I'll explain remember that Paul was a Roman citizen by appealing to Caesar the Roman ruler at the time
he was asking for Roman protection so Paul was sent all the way to Rome where Caesar lived now all he had to do was wait for his turn to tell Caesar about Jesus but Caesar was a little busy so Paul sat in jail for two whole years two years what did he do all that time since he couldn't go out and tell people about Jesus I wrote letters what letters yes lots of letters that help churches learn how to be followers of Jesus you've probably seen some of Paul's letters in the Bible like Galatians Ephesians
Philippians and Colossians oh what's Philippians about that one was all about joy and it was written to the Christians in Philippi because Paul was full of joy no matter what it sure sounds like he stayed busy yes busy for Jesus even when he was in jail well God really helped Paul turn something that was terrible into something very good yes he did and in one of those letters Paul wrote We Are justified by grace through faith something wrong it's just that well I have no idea what that means oh that's okay some of Paul's letters
were a little hard to understand I'll explain what Paul meant when he said we are justified by grace through faith let's begin with the word Justified let's say someone goes to the store to get some bananas these bananas are great put the bananas down okay you didn't pay for those bananas I sure did you heard the alarm you did not I did did not you are wrong I am no she's right here's the receipt she paid for the bananas it's right for her to take them home oh I see so she's not wrong she's right
she is Justified it's Justified done nothing wrong it seemed like the girl did something wrong but the owner said that what she did was right so she was justified right and what about Grace what does that mean the word Grace means undeserved favor those are just more big words I still don't get it well favor me means kindness so Grace or undeserved favor means you have been given a kindness a gift that you didn't earn for example I finished mowing the lawn Grandpa and you've done a great job here's the money I said I'd pay
you Yahoo did the boy deserve that money for sure he earned it yes he did now what if if this happens you're such a wonderful grandson here's a little money for you to buy something you like it's just a gift because I love you wow thanks Grandpa did the boy earn the money this time no the money was a gift right and that's exactly what Grace is a gift that you didn't earn and what is the gift that Paul was talking about that we haven't earned well it's much better than money the gift we haven't
earned is friendship with God friendship with God yes a forever kind of friendship today tomorrow and someday in a world without sadness or sickness a world made right that sounds amazing it is God wants to spend forever with us and only one thing will keep us away from this forever kind of friendship what is that sin remember that sin turns us away from God it breaks our friendship with him to be friends with God we need to have our labels changed from wrong to right like the girl in the supermarket yes but you see we
can't change our own labels that is why Jesus came it's why he died on the cross when Jesus took our he took our labels that said wrong and put them on himself then he took his own label that said right and put it on us Jesus Justified us wow Jesus loves us so much he does and because of what he did we are justified by grace through faith and what is faith faith is Trust trusting that Jesus will do what he said he would do faith is believing the good news about Jesus and the forever
kind of friendship that we can have with him our labels are changed from wrong to right right wow I'm so glad Jesus loves us so [Music] much do you want more laugh and grow Bible what do you mean sign up for minnow and get more Bible stories and loads more amazing shows wow how cool is that minnow is a great place to stream Christian shows for kids amazing download The Minnow app and start your free trial today [Music] yay
