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Acts 7:59 · BSB
7:59 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
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…might remember that before Christ excuse me, before Christ meeting Christ, paul was a persecutor of the church. As a matter of fact, you go back toActs, chapter 7, and it was Paul. And in the chapter 8, it was Paul who condoned the first, the execution of the first Christian martyr, namely Stephen. So at this…
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…7, 14, they did face intense persecution from their own countrymen. The original persecutors of the church was not Rome, it was the Jews. InActs chapter 7, you see Stephen, the first martyr of the church. Here's a Jew preaching to Jews and they took up rocks and hurled him till he died. In Acts…
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…had something to say how is it that these unlearned men are so proficient well they figured out they had been with Jesus I think about Stephen inActs chapter 7brought with false accusation and any of you who have read Stephen's little brief sermon know that he starts out with just a wonderful recitation…
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…resurrection, he was someone who wanted to crush the church wherever he could find it. And one of the saddest references we have is at the end ofActs chapter 7, when Stephen is speaking before the Sanhedrin, and is then stoned to death. And in the book of Acts chapter 8, it says that Saul approved of his…
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…remain standing for the reading of God's Word. I'm reading in Acts, chapter 6, beginning with verse 8, 8 through 15, and then a few verses inActs, chapter 7. And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the…
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…continue to live godly, generous lives. What had happened was that those outside the church. Began to understand the message. And from now on. FromActs chapter 7. Until the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel goes forward. And the church goes forward. In the face of deep opposition. When you…
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…things that I'll share with you that I think it's really important to know about that church number one it was a church that was birthed in pain inActs chapter 7Steven gets stoned and as a result of the stoning of stepen the church scatters all throughout and some of those people who were ended up getting…
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…then could I blasphemy the name of my king, the one who saved me? How about Stephen when he's being martyred for his faith? The very first one inActs Chapter 7, he looks up into the heavens. He says he saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God and all he has to say is Lord lay not their sin to their…
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…the way it is, Jesus, Jesus is at the right hand of God. He is in charge. And we're reminded of that in a wonderful way in the book of Acts. And inActs chapter 7, where we see Stephen. And as Stephen was stoned to death, what you read of there in verse 55 of Acts 7, what does Stephen see? Well, as he looked,…
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…him about his ministry. They want nothing to do with it. And it's not unique to Paul. My mind went to another man of God that is testified of inActs Chapter 7. We're still in Acts. Scroll back to Chapter 7 and notice how Stephen recounts the life and ministry of Moses. And I want you to see something with…
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…mean and how was Saul converted? Who was Saul of Tarsus? Well, if you remember, luke tells us that Saul was in a position of authority and back inActs, chapter 7, he consented to the disciple Stephen's death, trying to stamp out Christianity. Who is he? Well, saul was born in Asia Minor, in the city of…
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…work. He moves people out of the city of Jerusalem so that the gospel will go from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria. The church faced persecution inActs chapter 7in the beginning of Acts chapter 8. That stress didn't drive the apostles out of the city, but it drove many other people out of the city. And as…
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…get very different answers. Colby spoke to this a little bit last week in the life of Paul, but you can get very different answers. Look with me inActs, chapter 7, for one answer of who Paul is. There's a moment when, after Pentecost, the church is beginning to expand. People are seeing and experiencing the…
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…heaven? He'll come back on a cloud. What Luke does is here, he relays this historic event, and he locates Jesus in heaven. And if you'd flip toActs chapter 7, this is the account of when Stephen was martyred, and in verses 54 and 55, we read this. Now, when they heard these things, the Jews, they were…
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…after Jesus rose from the den and he was using the same themes as Jesus did. And at the very end of his sermon, notice what Stephen says inActs chapter 7. You stiff-necked people. He didn't mince words, did he? Now he's not just being a jerk. That's Old Testament language that God used to condemn…
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…would not receive this honour. An Angel of the Lord is sent to save Simon, an Angel of the Lord. This comes to mind. St. Stephen the first Deacon,Acts Chapter 7. When he was being stoned to death, he lifted up his head, his face was bright and shining, and he looked up into heaven, and he saw Jesus…
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…church soon discovered that every believer in Jesus has been given a mission to fulfill from Jesus, individually and corporately. Last time, inActs, chapter 7, after Stephen was killed, things began to radically change for Christians, the early Christians, and again God was shaping, conforming them,…
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…wooden doors, wooden wheels and wooden seats. Then he put the wooden key in the wooden ignition and it wouldn't start. I know, okay. Last time inActs, chapter 7, we'll have Stephen standing before the Sanhedrin. The religious Jewish council charge of everything in Jerusalem in answer charges that he was…
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…Then they drug him before the council to stand trial for blasphemy, which was the death penalty. That brings us to the beginning of chapter 7,acts, chapter 7. In Acts 7-1, as Stephen stood before the council, the high priest asked him one question Are these things so? The high priest asked him one…
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…was standing for truth just like we talked about in Sabbath school this morning and there was someone else there if you remember at the very end ofActs chapter 7as Stephen is breathing up his last and he says, Father don't hold this sin against them echoing those words of Jesus. But then we see in Acts 8…
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