What Are You Waiting For? - John R Schroeder - June 1975

John R Schroeder

What are you waiting for?" said Ananias to Saul. "Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away..." (Acts 22:16, NIV). Now why would a Christian layman in the first century say a thing like that to Saul of Tarsus? Only three days before, Saul had been struck down by Jesus of Nazareth on his way to Damascus to torture Christians. He had spent the three days totally unseeing - blinded by the brightness of Christ's appearance. That unprecedented experience began the transformation of Saul from a self-righteous religionist into perhaps the greatest Christian of his time. Saul's future lifework was outlined rather immediately after his total about-face. But before he could become Paul, or even begin to commence to fulfill his Christ-given commission, Jesus inducted him into God's Work through the deeply symbolic ceremony of baptism. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library