There was an explorer in the jungles of South Pacific.

He found himself surrounded by bloodthirsty cannibals with spears pointed at him.

And he thought to himself, oh no, I'm doomed.

And then a ray of sunlight beamed through the clouds and a voice coming from heaven said,

pick up a rock, the rock at your feet, and bashed the chief's head in.

And he thought, wow, okay.

And he reached down, picked up the rock, and he bashed the chief's head in.

And he died right in front of everybody.

And all the cannibals were standing there bewildered with spears and everything, and what?

And the, you know, the explorer looked back at the sun and said,

okay, now what? And he said, okay, now you're doomed. I love that story. Sometimes you think

the Lord's going to save you in a certain way, but often he does it in very different ways. And sometimes it might even appear that he's not

saving you at all. But he does deliver you, just not necessarily the way you thought. I wonder if

perhaps, you know, Stephen, I don't know, this is just conjecture, but do you think Stephen wondered,

is the Lord going to get me out of this predicament? Because, you know, remember,

we had Peter and John, they were in prison and the Lord just opened the doors and they got

him out of prison. Like, like they already had seen some miracles that way. I wonder, but you say,

well, man, no, Stephen's doomed. He's doomed. But the Lord is going to save Stephen, but in a way that

we wouldn't really even think

is saved.

I mean, being stone to death doesn't sound like very much being saved, but when you're

the Christian in the story, the day of your death is the day that you can rejoice and

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