Acts 4:33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. The power with which the Apostles gave testimony to the resurrection of Christ was by the grace of God yielding the Christ-like attitude and Christ like impact of this early church.… Read More »
Submitted Suffering
Acts 5:17-18 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. The Apostles loved God dearly, were submitted to Him, were preaching the Gospel… Read More »
Closet Monster
Numbers 10:13 So they started out for the first time according to the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses. This was a very orderly movement, starting with being freed from the bondage of Egypt, to receiving the law at Mount Sinai to the giving of the instructions for the camp and the… Read More »
Excuses
Acts 6:8 And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. I think the order of the words, “faith and power” is important here. You see, the fact that faith was required means that the power was not Stephen’s, but that it was from God. It reminds us that… Read More »
Peace
Acts 7:1 Then the high priest said, “Are these things so?” Stephen was a man who knew where to find peace. The peace he found was not in other people, not in government, not in religion, but in God. This was important because Stephen had been railroaded by those of the Synagogue of the Freedmen,… Read More »
The Savior or Your Savior?
Acts 7:37 “This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.’” Stephen is being tried by the Sanhedrin on the charges of blasphemy, not against God but against the Temple. His defense is… Read More »
Two Points of View
Numbers 13:17-20 Then Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way into the South, and go up to the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they… Read More »
Works Snob
Acts 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. It wasn’t that the counsel couldn’t hear Stephen but they refused to so much as even consider what he said. They were stiff necked, meaning they could not repent or turn and… Read More »
Timely
Acts 10:28 Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean. Several days before Peter was summoned to the house of Cornelius, God… Read More »
Chosen Vessel
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. The phrase that is used here, “Chosen Vessel” or “Vessel of Choice” is a Hebraism, a distinctive phrase found in the Hebrew language, that could be… Read More »
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