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Acts 7:51–53 · BSB
7:51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
7:53 you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
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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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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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…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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…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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…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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…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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Let's take our Bibles. Let's open toActs chapter 7. Acts chapter 7. If you're just joining us, our habit is to work through books of the Bible verse by verse. We find ourselves in Acts chapter 7. So…
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…we are curious about what that might be, let's just go back to Acts chapter 2, and let's read Philip's sermon. Let's see the consistency. Even readActs chapter 7in Stephen's sermon. Look at Paul's sermon to Antioch of Pisidia in Acts 13, and all the way through, you're going to see a consistent message…
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…mean? So it leads us right into the third challenge. And that's the challenge of angry listeners. And there's no way in the world we can readActs chapter 7, but a lot of it is a sermon in which Stephen, or a defense, in which he reviews Jewish history and he's going to show some certain themes that…
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…Mike, are you really going to let them have it on your way out? Maybe uh take something from Stephen's message today to his Jewish audience. Uh inActs chapter 7, Stephen says to those listening, you stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit, as your fathers did.…
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…Jesus is to sit in the place of authority, showing that he is sovereign over all things and will reign over everything, even his enemies. But inActs chapter 7, Jesus is standing. He's not seated in sovereign authority, he's standing in service. Because the resurrection and the ascension brought us a king…
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…another passage I came across this week studying that I just, man, I love this passage. This is Stephen talking about the call of Abraham inActs chapter 7. Listen to this. Verse 2. Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia. What stands…
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…about Moses. Shared a little bit about Warren Buffett. Um, great. We always worry about the text here being large enough to read. So if we look inActs chapter 7, we really see a good background in Moses and his life. And so looking in verses 20 through 23, this is what we read. And this time Moses was born,…
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