THE MAN YOU'D NEVER PICK / PASTOR TERRY HIGGS / THE ICONIC CHURCH

Here's a paste-ready YouTube description — hook up top, then the supporting block, with room to plug in your links: Saul hunted the church. God called him the pattern. He was a blasphemer, a persecutor, a violent man — and by his own confession, the chief of sinners. So why did God pick him to write half the New Testament? In Week 1 of The Realm of Grace, we open the story of the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 1:13–16 and discover this: God saved the man who called himself the worst — on purpose — so that nobody coming after him could ever say they were too far gone. This message is for two people. The one with the résumé who thinks they don't need grace. And the one with the record who thinks they don't deserve it. Both are wrong — and Paul is the proof. You're not the exception to grace. You're the pattern. 🕊️ In this message: What a "realm" really is — and which one you're living in Why "I am chief" (not "I was") changes everything Mercy that shows up before the cleanup How the man you'd never pick became the pattern God uses 📖 Text: 1 Timothy 1:13–16 (KJV) ✝️ Series: The Realm of Grace — a journey through the life and letters of the Apostle Paul