stephen

Acts 7:45-60 is not a soft passage. Stephen is standing before religious men who believe they are defending God, Moses, the temple, and the truth. But Stephen shows them from their own Scriptures that they are not defending God at all. They are resisting Him. That is what makes this passage so...

You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and...