Listen To Me

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Listen To Me God remained faithful through Abraham, Joseph, Moses, the prophets, and ultimately Jesus Christ Listen To Me: Lord, Do Not Hold This Sin Against Them Listen To Me: Lord, Do Not Hold This Sin Against Them Stephen, Listen To Me, he does not defend himself by attacking his accusers. Instead, he tells the story of God’s Covenant from Abraham through Moses and the prophets, showing how God repeatedly remained faithful while His people repeatedly resisted Him. Stephen then points directly to Jesus Christ, the Righteous One they betrayed and murdered. Even as Stephen is dying, his words reveal truth, grace, forgiveness, and faith. Obedience, God’s Covenant, Judgment, Fell Asleep, Anger, Truth, It Was Written, Grace, Redemption Plan, Jesus Christ God’s Story Unfolds 📖 Acts 7:1 (NIV) “7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?” Acts 7 is Stephen’s final testimony. When the high priest asks whether the accusations are true, Stephen begins with Abraham and traces God’s work through generations. God called Abraham, made a covenant with him, and promised that his descendants would possess the land. Joseph was rejected by his brothers, yet God was with him. Moses was rejected by his own people, yet God called him to become their deliverer. Stephen’s message is not simply a history lesson. It reveals a repeated pattern: God speaks, God sends, God delivers, and people sometimes resist the very person God has chosen. The people rejected Moses before God sent him back to deliver them. Their ancestors turned to idols even after God brought them out of Egypt. The prophets who spoke God’s truth were persecuted, and Stephen declares that the Righteous One—the promised Jesus Christ—was also betrayed and murdered. Stephen stands before people who are angry with him, yet he does not change the truth to save himself. Filled with the Holy Spirit, he looks toward heaven and sees Jesus standing at the right hand of God. His final words are not words of revenge. They are a prayer: “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” Then he falls asleep. Listen To Me 📖 Acts 7:1-4 (NIV) “7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?” “2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. 3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a]” “4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.” Stephen begins with a simple request: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me!” He knows the people before him are powerful, angry, and prepared to judge him. Yet he does not respond with fear or hatred. He speaks the truth. Listening matters because truth cannot change a heart that refuses to hear it. Throughout Scripture, God repeatedly sends His message through people who are willing to speak. Stephen understands that his responsibility is not to control the response. His responsibility is to tell the truth. God Called Abraham – Listen To Me 📖 Acts 7:5-8 (NIV) ” 5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child. 6 God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated. 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[b] 8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.” God appeared to Abraham and told him to leave his country and go to a land God would show him. Abraham obeyed before he could see the complete promise. He did not receive everything immediately. God was building something much larger than one man’s lifetime. This is part of God’s Covenant. God’s promises often begin before we can see how they will be fulfilled. Faith means trusting God while continuing to walk forward. God’s Covenant Stands Through Generations – Listen To Me 📖 Acts 7:9-12 (NIV) “9 “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him 10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.” “11 “Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food. 12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit. ” Abraham had no child when God promised that his descendants would possess the land. God’s Covenant did not depend upon Abraham seeing the entire promise fulfilled during his lifetime. Isaac came, then Jacob, then the twelve patriarchs. Generations passed, but God’s promise remained. Human circumstances change. People die. Kingdoms rise and fall. But God’s Covenant stands because God is faithful. Jealousy Can Change The Heart – Listen To Me 📖 Acts 7:13-16 (NIV) “13 On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family. 14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. 15 Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died. 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.:” Joseph’s brothers were

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