• Calloused Hearts (Hard-ly Hearted)
• Almost Deaf Ears (Hardly Hearing)
• Closed Eyes (Hardly Seeing)

‘For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.  Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ (cf. Isaiah 6:9-10) 

Seeing + Hearing + Understanding = Turning + Healing

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• Looked
• Saw
• Called Out

Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, “Stand up on your feet!” At that, the man jumped up and began to walk. NIV

Paul Looked AND Saw AND Called Out (Actions in Keeping with a Man’s Faith)

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• Saw (Him)
• Stirred Up (the Whole Crowd)
• Seized (Him) with Shouting

Paul’s Enemies Claimed …

• Teaches All/Everywhere
  • Against Jewish People
  • Against Jewish Law
  • Against Jewish Temple
• Brings Gentiles into (a restricted part of the Temple
• Defiles God’s Holy Place (Temple)

When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, shouting, “Men of Israel, help us!  This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place. NIV

Paul, in a Way, Paid for His Own Mob-Riot, Arrest, Beating, and Long-Term Imprisonment when He Paid for This Group-Rate Ritual of Worship– All for One Low Price. Such a Deal He Got!

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• Know (God’s Will)
• See (the Righteous One)
• Hear (Words from God’s Mouth)

“Then he said: ‘The God of our fathers has chosen you to know his will and to see the Righteous One and to hear words from his mouth. NIV

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• Open Eyes
• Turn People from Darkness to Light
• Turn People from the Power of Satan to God

” ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.
“‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you.  I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, by faith in me.’” NIV

Paul’s Mission– Which He Chose to Accept– Did Not Self-Destruct in Five Seconds

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