Sermons onActs 7

Acts

• 8:56Acts 7

  And they scream, they gnash their teeth and they pick up rocks and they attack Stephen and they kill Stephen. In a fit of rage. But before they kill Stephen, they have the right mind to set aside their outer garments. And in Acts chapter 7, at the end, we know that they set their garments at the feet of a man named Saul. The same man in chapter 9 of verse 1 is doing what? He's breathing out murderous threats.

Acts

• 24:35Acts 7

  It's the same exact word used shortly in Acts chapter 7, when Stephen is dying, and he looks up, and he sees Jesus standing. It's that word, intense. So, they're looking with a fixed gaze, as if they can't take their eyes off of Stephen. Why would they do that? Because of a…

Leviticus

• 22:06Acts 7

  behalf. We cannot put the Almighty in a box and expect our efforts and our works to maintain that relationship. We must be very careful. The Lord says in Acts 7, the same book that blows these animals out of the water. He says this, what sort of house will you build for me? Or what will be my resting place? God is saying, you cannot build a system to worship me. You can't build a house to contain me.

Reformation: 5 statements that form/faith

• 14:39Acts 7

  You say, well, where do we see that else in Scripture? In Luke 2:9. The glory of the Lord shone when the angel of the Lord appeared. His glory shines. In Acts 7, Stephen gazes into heaven and he beholds what? The glory of God. Now before you say, I want to be like Stephen, why does Stephen see God? He is being stoned and he's dying for his faith. We also see this at the transfiguration when Moses and Elijah appear with Christ.

• 20:43Acts 7

  I want you guys to get a good picture of this. Verse 13 said, brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own but one thing I do, forgetting, forgetting what lies behind and straining toward what lies ahead. I want you to turn to Acts. Acts chapter 7.

• 21:56Acts 7

  laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul who would become the author of Philippians chapter 3. Now, Stephen was a young man who's preaching a message and it went brutally wrong. It went really bad for him. In Acts chapter 7, things were great at the church, in the church.

• 12:07Acts 7

  death that's where they met him if you want to look that up is acts chapter 7 fully enraged to put the church to death was his goal until that famous day on the damascus road where he was a where a transformation took place in his life and a course direction changed his life to be fully engaged in promoting the ministry to the churches and promoting the gospel of jesus christ as his savior as his savior

• 21:59Acts 7

  a different story of salvation. The high priest hears this. And again, this is the Supreme Court. This is the high priest. This isn't a district judge. Okay, this is the high priest. The Supreme Court of the nation that he's standing before. In chapter 7, verse 1. Chapter 7, verse 1, it says, And the high priest said, Are these things so? What you have in Acts, chapter 7, is one of the best courtroom scenes in the history of the world.