Wednesday night, we'll continue our through the Bible study, Acts chapter 7. Would you turn there?

We're going to draw our text from the upcoming Wednesday study from Acts chapter 7.

Tonight, we sort of shift gears as we have a sermon, and it's quite a sermon, and we'll look

at the whole sermon on Wednesday night, Lord willing, but it's the sermon of the first martyr

of the Christian faith.

You know, I've had sermons that have gotten me into trouble, but nothing like Stephen.

Stephen's going to preach this sermon, and they're going to stone him to death for it.

But does he lose the battle, or does he win?

We're going to see Stephen's going to come out victorious, as it turns out,

even though he's like, Brett, dead is kind of final, not if you're a Christian.

And so Stephen's got, I can't wait to meet this guy in heaven.

But Stephen goes into a little history lesson with the religious guys there on the Temple

Mount in Jerusalem. And that's what I'd like to do is kind of take a little section of this,

because as it turns out, the history lesson that Stephen's giving to the children of Israel

there in Jerusalem

during the first century, it would be very pertinent to what they were talking about.

And Stephen's going to make a real powerful point at the end of his sermon that we're going to

see on Wednesday night. But it's amazing to me, the very thing Stephen's talking about in his

sermon, it's the same thing the world is raging

about today.

The world is angry.

People are killing people over something that Stephen's talking about, and it's still a problem.

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