#7 – Jesus is Interceding for Us (Acts 7:55)

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David Platt

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🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Christ's intercession gives us boldness and peace in every circumstance.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical dot net.
0:06.0	Acts chapter 7 verse 55
0:09.0	but he, Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus
0:19.8	standing at the right hand of God.
0:25.0	What an amazing scene.
0:27.8	And we see all over scripture
0:30.0	Jesus pictured as seated at the right hand of God.
0:33.3	But here we see him standing at the right hand of God.
0:37.0	In this moment where Stephen is about to be stone,
0:40.2	he's about to lose his life for being a faithful witness to Christ.
0:47.0	Full of the Holy Spirit, just like we saw in Acts Chapter 6, full of the Holy Spirit.
0:53.1	He looks up into heaven and gets this glimpse
0:57.0	of the glory of God.
0:59.7	And Jesus standing there at the right hand of God, his intercessor.
1:05.0	I just think about this passage being an illustration of
1:11.0	acts, our Romans chapter 8 8 when we are taught that Jesus himself is interceding for us at
1:17.7	God's right now.
1:18.7	Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?
1:20.9	It's God who justifies.
1:22.0	Who is that he condemns Christ, Jesus, who died
1:24.8	more than that who is raised a life and is at the right hand of God interceding for us.
1:29.9	And the verses of the follow after that, who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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