Host WG introduces Testify Tuesday, a new weekly series of testimonies about people coming from unbelief to faith in Jesus Christ. He walks through key Scriptures on passing from death to life, reflects on the Ethiopian eunuch's story, and invites listeners to share their own.

Introducing Testify Tuesday: Stories of Grace and the Gospel WG introduces Testify Tuesday, a series about how people come to faith in Jesus Christ and the testimonies of God’s work in their lives. He explains how future episodes may share personal stories, guest conversations, and accounts drawn from online articles, then reflects on what Scripture says about passing from death to life through faith.

• WG plans to feature guests sharing their lives before and after coming to faith, along with his own testimony in a future episode.
• Other Testify Tuesday episodes may discuss online accounts of people from different backgrounds, including former atheists and a former Muslim imam, who came to believe in the gospel.
• WG shares that he grew up around Christian teaching but says his earlier belief was mental assent rather than personal trust in Jesus. He describes his own story as one of God’s grace.
• Romans 6:23 and John 8:24 frame the episode’s central contrast: the wages of sin is death, while eternal life is offered in Christ.
• WG connects these passages with verses including John 5:24, John 6:47, John 11:25-26, Romans 10:9, and Ephesians 2:4-5.
• He compares Genesis 2:17’s warning about death with Jesus’ promise in John 6:47 that the one who believes has eternal life.
• The Ethiopian eunuch’s encounter with Philip in Acts is presented as a scriptural testimony of someone hearing the gospel and responding in faith.
• WG encourages believers to reflect prayerfully on how God is shaping their testimony and to share it with others.

Timestamps00:00 - The podcast’s theme and Revelation 14:6
00:55 - What to expect from Testify Tuesday
02:04 - Testimonies from people of different backgrounds
04:23 - WG’s background and future personal testimony
07:54 - Romans 6:23 and the move from death to life
10:56 - Testimonies across Scripture and history
13:32 - Biblical passages on faith and eternal life
16:06 - Comparing the warning in Genesis with Jesus’ promise
19:25 - Paul, the apostles, and transformed lives
22:09 - The Ethiopian eunuch’s response to the gospel
24:37 - Encouragement for believers and reading Scripture
26:11 - Reflecting on faith and sharing a testimony

• Revelation 14:6 – The eternal gospel proclaimed to every nation, tribe, tongue and people. The podcast's theme verse.
• Romans 6:23 – The wages of sin is death; the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• John 8:24 – Unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.
• John 1 – The Word was with God and the Word was God; the Word became flesh.
• 2 Peter 3:9 – The Lord is patient, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
• John 6:47 – The one believing has eternal life.
• John 5:24 – The one hearing and believing has passed out of death into life.
• John 11:25-26 – I am the resurrection and the life.
• 1 John 3:14 – We have passed out of death into life because we love the brothers.
• 1 John 5:11-12 – This life is in His Son; the one having the Son has life.
• Romans 10:9 – Confess Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead.
• Ephesians 2:4-5 – God, rich in mercy, made us alive together with Christ.
• 1 Peter 1:23 – Born again of incorruptible seed through the living and abiding word of God.
• Acts 13:39 – Everyone believing is justified.
• Acts 16:31 – Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.
• James 1:18 – He brought us forth by the word of truth.
• Jude 21 – Keep yourselves in the love of God.
• Genesis 2:17 – The warning given to Adam.
• Acts 8 – Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch, including the Isaiah passage he was reading.

Historic Witness - Apostle Paul Continued. In this episode, WG continues the Historic Witness series with a closer look at the Apostle Paul’s conversion, calling, and sufferings. The focus is on what Acts and Paul’s letters actually say - especially the Damascus Road encounter, Paul’s names Saul and Paul, and the hardships that marked his ministry. WG also corrects two points from the prior episode: the Damascus Road event was not merely a vision, and Jesus did not directly rename Saul to Paul. The episode closes by connecting Paul’s story to the encouragement in 2 Corinthians: Christ’s grace is sufficient in weakness.

Key topics

• In this episode: WG clarifies that Paul’s Damascus Road experience in Acts 9 was a real encounter with the risen Jesus Christ, not just a vision.
• WG reads and compares Acts 9:1-6, Acts 9:17-19, and Acts 22:6-10 to show how the conversion account is repeated and confirmed in Scripture.
• The episode explains that Saul and Paul were both names Paul already had - Saul as his Hebrew name and Paul as his Roman name.
• WG says the text does not show Jesus formally changing Saul’s name on the road to Damascus; the shift to Paul appears later in Acts 13:9.
• The episode examines Paul’s missionary sufferings in 2 Corinthians 11:23-27, including five whippings, three beatings with rods, imprisonment, hunger, thirst, sleeplessness, cold, and shipwrecks.
• WG highlights Acts 9:16 - “I will show him how much he must suffer for my name’s sake” - as a key statement about Paul’s calling.
• The episode connects Paul’s hardships to his perseverance, emphasizing that he continued preaching despite repeated persecution and physical danger.
• WG turns to 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 to discuss Paul being caught up to the third heaven and receiving the “thorn in the flesh.”
• The episode stresses Paul’s humility, noting that he did not want people to exalt him but to focus on Christ, the gospel, and the cross.
• WG closes by applying Paul’s example to listeners today, urging trust in the words of Jesus: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

Timestamps00:00 - Podcast update and the purpose of Historic Witness
01:14 - Why the release schedule is being reduced to three episodes per week
03:11 - Episode 4 is a micro look at Paul after the macro overview in episode 3
04:38 - Correcting the “vision” wording for Paul’s Damascus Road encounter
06:50 - Clarifying that Jesus did not directly rename Saul to Paul
07:52 - Saul and Paul as two names used in Roman and Jewish contexts
13:05 - Reading Acts 9:1-6 - Paul meets the risen Lord on the road to Damascus
14:22 - Reading Acts 9:17-19 - Ananias restores Paul’s sight and baptizes him
15:04 - Reading Acts 22:6-10 - Paul retells the Damascus Road account
16:34 - Paul’s physical sufferings begin the deeper dive
17:30 - Beaten with rods three times, including the Philippi account in Acts 16
20:53 - Acts 9:16 and the warning that Paul must suffer for Christ’s name
22:26 - Paul’s calling includes persecution, trials, and continued gospel work
24:45 - Summary of Paul’s whippings, stoning, shipwrecks, and imprisonment
26:06 - Ongoing threats, betrayal, sleeplessness, hunger, thirst, and cold
40:04 - Shifting to Paul’s later vision of being caught up to the third heaven
43:36 - The thorn in the flesh and Christ’s answer: “My grace is sufficient”
44:45 - Paul’s humility and refusal to glorify himself
47:17 - Applying Christ’s sufficiency to believers and nonbelievers today
48:43 - Encouragement to study Paul’s life in Acts and his epistles
50:32 - Final exhortation to meditate on Christ’s words about grace and weakness

Bibliography/Sources/Credit BibleHub, Bible App, Biblegateway, The Holy Bible, New International Version. (2011). Zondervan. (Original work published 1978).Historical/Cultural context on Roman-Jewish naming conventions: Harrill, J. A. (2012). Paul the Apostle: His life and legacy in their Roman context. Cambridge University Press.)