Stephen on Trial
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On trial for his life and surrounded by false witnesses, Stephen gazed toward heaven and saw Jesus. From his sermon series in the book of Acts, today R.C. Sproul discusses the courageous faith and bold message of the first martyr of the ancient church.
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| 0:00.0 | God and his grace gives him a taste of heaven. |
| 0:03.6 | God shows Stephen his glory. |
| 0:07.2 | The teeth of men that are being gnashed at him |
| 0:09.7 | but not worthy to be compared |
| 0:11.2 | with the blessed vision that Stephen now enjoys as he looks up into |
| 0:16.3 | heaven. Christians today and throughout church history have been persecuted for their |
| 0:27.0 | faith many even giving their lives as martyrs and today we'll hear the story of the first martyr of the early church. |
| 0:35.0 | Thank you for joining us for the Sunday edition of Renewing Her Mind. |
| 0:40.0 | Today you'll hear a sermon from our.C. Sproll's Axe Series, a sermon he preached at St Andrew's |
| 0:46.6 | Chapel in Sanford, Florida. This sermon from Acts Chapter 6 is one of over 60 that Dr Sprawl preached in this series, and it was these |
| 0:55.8 | sermons that formed the basis of his commentary on the Book of Acts. |
| 0:59.9 | And today only you can request that hard cover volume at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:05.0 | Well to take us back to the earliest days of the early church and the trial and |
| 1:10.4 | death of Stephen here's Dr Sprawl. |
| 1:15.0 | Last week we looked at the portion of the Book of Acts, |
| 1:19.0 | the told of the decision of the Apostles |
| 1:22.0 | to set apart and consecrate for ministries of mercy and service what are called |
| 1:30.1 | the seven in the book to Diaconia to service were so chosen so that |
| 1:41.0 | the apostles could be freed up to fulfill their vocation to labor in the preaching |
| 1:48.0 | and teaching of the word. |
| 1:51.4 | And Luke tells us the names of those seven who were chosen and included in that list was Stephen. |
| 2:02.0 | Now as Luke continues his narrative. was Stephen. |
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