A chosen vessel – Preaching
Preaching Outline on Acts 9:15 – “But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this is a chosen vessel for me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.”
Introduction to Acts 9:15
This text takes place after the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, a man who until then had persecuted the Church of the Lord Jesus and consented to the death of God’s servants. Now he had an experience on the road to Damascus with the Lord Jesus.
We can see how God changes the trajectory of man’s life when he has an encounter with the project of Salvation. At that moment another “vessel was chosen” by God to carry his message of salvation.
Development
A chosen vessel, not “the chosen vessel”, is the expression that shows that Paul was a member of the body, among so many others that God had already chosen and would yet choose. This expression was used by God about a man who at that moment was already in Judas’ house, on the street called Straight, in the city of Damascus, the place where Saul was taken by the Lord Jesus’ direction in verse 6.
He was not a vessel chosen by Ananias (verses 13-14), but a vessel chosen by God, because “for me” is the expression of the Election made by God, according to 1 Peter 1:2. Paul was called a “vessel” because the servant is an instrument in the Lord’s hands to make of him what the Lord, as the potter, wishes to make. In the expression: “to bear my name…” is the character of instrumentality in Paul’s salvation.
Conclusion
We praise the Lord for choosing us just as Paul did. We have the privilege of being the bearers of the message of salvation.
Preaching Outline on Acts 9:15 – “But the Lord said to him, “Go, for this is a chosen vessel for me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.”
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