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Acts 7:2–3 · BSB
7:2 And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
7:3 and told him, ‘Leave your country and your kindred and go to the land I will show you.’
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…or a son of the devil himself. Then Jesus deals with the sin of blasphemy the Holy Ghost. Later on in this text, this nation committed that inActs chapter 7. He'd warned them, but yet they still, even though they discredited him and disrespected him, that was not the greatest thing. You see that thief…
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…Season. And we're seeing God's sovereignty over our suffering. We're seeing God's plan in the midst of our pain. Stephen has just been stoned inActs chapter 7. That's the context. Don't tell me that's good. Don't tell me that's a good thing. Don't tell me the death of one of God's saints is a positive, a…
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…Peter put his hands on Stephen and said, Lord, be with this man to serve in the church. He did that in Acts chapter 6. Then in Acts chapter 8 orActs chapter 7, at the end thereof, Paul said, Kill Stephen! And they killed him. And then years later, whenever Peter is referring to Apostle Paul, he says, Our…
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…Paul is, Paul himself is a broken pottery piece. He was a uh a persecutor of Christians. Uh, you can read about that in the in the book of Acts. InActs chapter 7, he stands uh giving endorsement to the murder of the first Christian martyr, a man called Stephen. And he is on his way to throw more Christians…
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…a pretty good reason, don't you think? Well, we better not resist the spirit. Now, Stephen came up with this problem. He faced this problem inActs chapter 7and verse 51. Oh, I wish they wouldn't prophesy so much. Well, I wouldn't God, all God's people prophesy. Because without the spiritual gifts and…
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…far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, spreading the word only among the Jews. Did you catch that? So the the big stoning of Stephen, it's a wholeActs chapter 7thing, happens. And so everybody's like, oh, they're gonna stone me. I gotta get out of here. I gotta leave. So they fly. Now this was I don't…
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…Jesus. As we've studied this book this year on Sunday mornings, we've read about the death of the first Christian martyr by the name of Stephen inActs chapter 7and 8. And now we read about another death. The text opens by telling us that King Herod Agrippa, who was incredibly powerful, incredibly well…
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Let's take our Bibles. Let's open toActs chapter 7for the last time. We're in Acts chapter 7. As you're turning there, I love the story of the two pastors on staff together. It's a worship pastor…
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…who aren't born again can't bring forth fruit. But it was sown in his heart. Over there, this makes a big difference. Over there in the end ofActs chapter 7, where Stephen was stoned to death, it says whenever he preached the gospel to them, it says they were cut to the heart. Whenever Peter preached…
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Let's take our Bibles. We're inActs chapter 7. Acts chapter 7, verse 44. If you're turning there. As you're turning there, I love the story of the mom, her child, her son, asked the question,…
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…is proof positive that he is a man filled with the Spirit because of how God used him and his willingness to be used by God. Here's what happened:Acts chapter 7, if you know your Bible. Uh Stephen, who was a man filled with the Spirit, who was one of the first ones selected as a deacon, is brought before…
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…is Stephen. There's a guy by the name of Stephen. He's a deacon in the Bible, and his account is found in Acts chapter 6 and 7. And if you readActs chapter 7, it's just a little blurb. But you see what's going on in the life of this individual. After the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the apostles, if…
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…this attraction? And how can I overcome the weakness that I feel? Well, if you're just joining us, we're in a series I've entitled Dwell. We're inActs chapter 7, and in verse 37, Stephen is giving his defense. And now he comes to Israel's heart to sin. There's a pattern. And in verse 39, he identifies the…
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…in ways they didn't anticipate. And it's really interesting. You know, we get this story in Exodus 2, but then in the New Testament, in the book ofActs, chapter 7, there's a guy named Stephen, and he gives one of these legendary speeches, and he retells the story of Exodus and gives us some color commentary…
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…number 19 that it dates back to persecution that arose over the death of the first Christian martyr by the name of Stephen, which is recorded inActs chapter 7in verse number 8. And as Stephen is murdered, and as the enemies of the Christian church begin to feel emboldened, and as they become more…
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…7, you find a gathering. The church is growing like leaps and bounds. Thousands and thousands are being saved, people are being multiplied. And inActs chapter 7, you see Stephen brought before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish council. By the way, the same Jewish council who had condemned Christ to die. Now Stephen…
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…how we fit this particular pattern that Paul says we fit, that we follow, that we are a part of. First time we read about the Apostle Paul is inActs chapter 7. In Acts chapter 7, uh Stephen preaches just a beautiful sermon on Jesus Christ and the beauties of Jesus Christ and making sure the people there…
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…to the New Jerusalem, uh, but it is uh referring to heaven in that sense. Acts 7, verse 55 and 56. This is uh when Stephen was being stoned inActs chapter 7, it says, But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of…
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…get a whole Christian. And so we tend to work through passages of the Word of God. We're in the book of Acts. In fact, we're right in the heart ofActs chapter 7. And really, let me give you some context. Stephen is correcting these Jews who have just killed Jesus, and now Stephen is experiencing persecution…
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…that happened in these first few verses. Number one is Stephen is martyred. That is where we pick up in verse one of Acts chapter 8. All ofActs chapter 7is Stephen being martyred, the first martyr in the New Testament. Okay. We see him being martyred in Acts chapter 7, and then in Acts chapter 8,…
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