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Acts 7:2–4 · 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.’
7:4 So Abraham left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. After his father died, God brought him out of that place and into this land where you are now living.
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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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…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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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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…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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…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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…through 41, Paul preaches a lengthy sermon. Not going to read it or go into the details except to say it's very similar to the sermon of Stephen inActs chapter 7. By the way, when Stephen preached that sermon right before he died, guess who was standing there holding people's coats? Saul of Tarsus. It seems…
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…about how the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, and how for all of history, it's very much modeled a little bit after Stephen's uh sermon inActs chapter 7, I think it is. And it's just amazing how the rehearsing the history of how God has been in pursuit of a people he can call his own, just continues…
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Let's open our Bibles. Let's go toActs chapter 7this morning. If you're a guest with us here at Central Church, this is our habit. We just go, we go through sections of Scripture, books of the…
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…we're past the point of a threat. This is active persecution that the church is facing. And up to this point in the book of Acts, so we remember inActs chapter 7, we had the stoning of Stephen. But between the stoning of Stephen and the events that we're going to see today, a few years has passed. And…
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…to become A butterfly, and how they are completely changed. You see, Jesus can change our heart like that. And so when we find Saul, we find him inActs chapter 7. And we see that the church is being persecuted. Stephen is the first martyr of the early church, and we see in chapter 7, verse 58, that they…
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