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Acts 7:55–56 · BSB
7:55 But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
7:56 “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
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…and to turn and serve the one living, true God that loved them and cared for them. Do you know what happened? Well, Stephen preaches a sermon inActs chapter 7, and if you ever read Acts chapter 7, for 50 verses he shares a pattern, and that pattern was a problem. And that pattern was that God would send a…
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…point or send a message, he often wraps it in a person. What do I mean? This is what I mean. Don't turn there, I'm gonna read this and be done. InActs chapter 7, and the band can come out. I want to read this to you. In Acts chapter 7, when the members of the Saint of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were…
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…for your reward is great in heaven. When I think of an example of someone who did that, who followed that just like Jesus, I think of Stephen inActs chapter 7. If you want to turn over there, look at his example. Acts chapter 7, verses 55 through 56. He gives this great sermon in front of the religious…
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…and kill men and women who identified as followers of Christ. And remember, Paul was the ringleader, okay, of the brutal killing of Stephen,Acts chapter 7, the very first Christian martyr. Paul was the ringleader of all that happened that day. And we're told there in verse 5, because of his zeal for…
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…Like, well, you're doing what God called you to do. [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you in jail? [SPEAKER_00]: because opposition is coming. [SPEAKER_00]:Acts chapter 7, Stephen has killed for his faith in Jesus, right? [SPEAKER_00]: And then Stephen, he gives one of the greatest sermons really ever right before he…
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Acts 7:1–60And the high priest said these things so. And Stephen said. Brothers and fathers, hear me, you stiff necked people. Uncircumcised in heart and…
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…religious leaders are looking on, listening. And as he's pleading with Israel to repent, he says this, or it's said it's said of him this way, inActs chapter 7and verses 54 through 58. And when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. Like they were…
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…but we're gonna be shifting our focus to a man named Saul who would later go by his Roman name Paul. Now we've seen Paul before, we've seen him inActs chapter 7during the stoning of Stephen, and later in Acts chapter 9, it's actually dedicated to the explaining of his salvation. He was on his way to a city…
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We've been walking through Acts as a church family. And we are inActs chapter 7today. And so without trying to get through all of chapters 1 through 6, what you need to know is what we're focusing on right now is a guy named…
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…man greater than John the Baptist. Well, John the Baptist was beheaded for preaching the truth of God's word. Or how about Stephen the martyr? InActs chapter 7, we read about Stephen. We've heard about Stephen who proclaiming the truth of God's word, they stoned him. They killed him. We see that suffering…
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…will become the Apostle Paul. But we've got Acts chapter 5, we've got the prison doors open, we got the apostles that are walking out. Now we're inActs chapter 7, and now Stephen is seeing heaven open, and he's not escaping, he's not getting out, there's not a rescue, there's not an angel shows up, there's…
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…Saul who would be renamed or he would be called Paul eventually. But Saul was an impossible case. In fact, we remember him all the way back inActs chapter 7. In Acts chapter 7, he was there. He was a part of Stephen's martyrdom. In fact, it says this line in Acts chapter 7 that they laid their coats,…
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…century of Jesus, people commonly spoke of the law as coming through angels. That's why we see Stephen in his speech before he was martyred inActs chapter 7, about verse 50, 52, 53, saying that the law was given by angels. The Apostle Paul says that in Galatians 3, 19. So this all is pointing back to…
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…executed. And that event, Stephen's execution, ended up being the trigger for the dispersion of the church. So what was happening is, you know, inActs chapter 7, it says Saul was there witnessing Stephen's death, and then in Acts chapter 8, we saw how Saul was ravaging the church. He was going into homes…
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…the word. This is the word of the Lord, church. Maybe seated. In case you don't remember, we are in Acts chapter 8, but last week we were inActs chapter 7, and we talked about Stephen. Okay, and Stephen was one of the seven deacons that was raised up by the apostles to help care for the needs of the…
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…nation. Uh well let's go back real quick, just lead into this ninth chapter properly. You hate to hate to go this far back, but it's necessary. UmActs chapter 7, just gonna touch a few verses here, and I let the brothers do that in their group meetings. All of the doctrines, the fundamental teaching of…
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…you just would like to talk to someone about an issue and the arguments that are there and the issue? But it's not about that. It's jealousy here.Acts chapter 7. Now, when they heard this, they were enraged. So anger. And they ground their teeth at him. That's Stephen. Stephen is outlining a glorious…
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…on speaking the gospel with our words to lost people? And this isn't just the apostles, friends, this is all disciples. We saw that with Stephen inActs chapter 7. Stephen was not an apostle, yet he opens his mouth. He opens his mouth to proclaim Christ, and we saw what that cost him. It cost him his life.…
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…people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. God needed to prepare Moses. And so God, he has been doing this in the New Testament book ofActs, chapter 7. Remember Stephen's sermon there? He is again and again talking about and reflecting on the life of Moses. And there he talks about how Moses was…
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…Spirit. We have to respond by accepting that message, agreeing with God and trusting in what he says and who the Lord Jesus Christ is alone. InActs chapter 7, we're going to come there in a few months, Stephen preaches a sermon. And at the end of the sermon, he says to the crowd that's listening to him,…
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