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feeding, which kind of man I am supporting. Saul was

supporting the wrong man and it led him to disaster at the end,

it led him to persecute the anointed man of God. So he fell

short of the full working out of what he had received here. He

is a very sobering—example for us, especially the young

people. Do not further, do not support, the wrong man; it is

very important to support the right man that is of God, created

according to God (Ephesians 4: 24).

Well, I have read the portions from Paul’s epistles to show an

example of the working out of this wonderful feature; we must

turn to another Saul, not Saul the king, but Saul of Tarsus.

He was a Benjaminite too, as was Saul, but what a difference

when we think of his early experiences. I think there were two

points which were very important. I have read the portion of 2

Corinthians about “looking on the glory of the Lord, with

unveiled face” and being

“transformed according, to the same image from glory to glory,

even as by the Lord the Spirit”. My impression is, beloved

brethren, that Saul got his first impression about this truth in

Acts 8. He saw a living example of this wonderful fact in the

stoning of Stephen; he saw somebody who was beholding the

glory of the Lord, and was transformed into the same image. I

am sure that was an impression which never vanished from

Saul’s heart. Paul’s second impression would relate to the

way, king Saul ended, that is, he persecuted the anointed of

God. In Acts 9 Saul met

the Lord Jesus and He said to him, “Why dost thou persecute

me?” (v.4). It was a wonderful experience and he turned into

quite another course.

How different is his course described in Philippians.3 from

what we have in Saul the king.