EGW SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6

Chapter 22

3, 4. See EGW on 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. 6BC 1065.6

3, 25-28. See EGW on ch. 21:39. 6BC 1065.7

4. See EGW on ch. 9:1, 2. 6BC 1065.8

5-16 (ch. 26:9-16). Paul Never Forgot His Remarkable Conversion—The apostle could never forget his conversion from a persecutor of all who believe on Christ, to a believer in Him. What a bearing this conversion had on all his afterlife! What an encouragement it was as he worked on the side of Him whom he once ridiculed and despised. He could never forget the assurance conveyed to him in the first part of his ministry. He could speak intelligently because he had an experience, a personal knowledge, of the Lord Jesus Christ. He had a living, abiding faith, for he cultivated a sense of the presence of Christ in all his works. He received strength in prayer, and as a faithful soldier of Christ he ever looked to his Captain for orders. No amount of obstacles piled up before him, could cause him to regard the work as an impossibility, for he realized that “all things are possible to them that believe” (Manuscript 114, 1897). 6BC 1065.9

In every place where the apostle Paul was called to go after his conversion, he gave a vivid presentation of the ministration of heavenly angels in his conversion (Manuscript 29, 1900). 6BC 1065.10