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“Heaven Is My Throne: When Truth Confronts Resistance” Acts 7:50–60 (NKJV) · His Hop Radio Podcast

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  Speaker 1: as I said in the opening, this is Stephan's defense.
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  Speaker 1: This is where he's going to serve them a conviction sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the work of the Holy Spirit. We
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  Speaker 1: really have to pay attention and zoom in on how
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit operates in our hearts, in our lives. Right.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit, you know, we come back lies with truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the only way we're really going to get the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual truth is through the Word of God and that
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  Speaker 1: power or the Holy Spirit working in and through us.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Word of God will show us who
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  Speaker 1: we are. It's like a mirror, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: happened here. The Nation of Israel looked in the mirror,
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  Speaker 1: and they did not like what they saw, but belove it.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't like what we see, let's respond the
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  Speaker 1: correct way. And as we're about to read, they responded
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  Speaker 1: it incorrectly, incorrectly, that God wanted to move and bless
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  Speaker 1: them and bring them into salvation. They completely refused, and
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  Speaker 1: let that not be our story. Amen, all right? So
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  Speaker 1: Stephen's defense and first fifty, and remember the charges they
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  Speaker 1: charged him of violating the law of Moses and conspiring
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus to destroy the temple. And he's talking about
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  Speaker 1: how ridiculous is it to destroy a temple? Then there
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  Speaker 1: is no building that we could build that can contain
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  Speaker 1: God a man. So that's where we pick it up
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  Speaker 1: in verse fifty, and it says, has my hand not
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  Speaker 1: made all things? Hallelujah? Now Stephan is quoting Isaiah sixty
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  Speaker 1: six right here, and he's reminding the Sanhedrin. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is the same court that tried Jesus himself, right that
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  Speaker 1: God cannot be contained in building systems or even rituals. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Israel had begun to worship the simple instead of the substance.
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  Speaker 1: The temple was never meant to replace our obedience. Let
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  Speaker 1: me say that again. The building, the temple is it's
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  Speaker 1: never meant to replace our obedience. Now, this verse shuts
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  Speaker 1: down religious pride. Is what's going on here. Stephan is singing.
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  Speaker 1: You think you own God because you own a building.
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  Speaker 1: God made everything, not just the temple, and the moment
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  Speaker 1: we think God belongs to our system. We are already wrong,
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  Speaker 1: a man, We're already wrong. We think we have the
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  Speaker 1: exclusive on God. I've seen it. I've seen religions, and
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  Speaker 1: I've seen people say, if you're not baptized in our church,
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  Speaker 1: then you're not saved. Or if you don't do what
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  Speaker 1: we say or how we do it, or if you're
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  Speaker 1: not with us, then you're not saved. Basically, God is
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  Speaker 1: not with you. He's just with us. And that's a
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  Speaker 1: cultic mentality a man. God is not into division. He
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  Speaker 1: wants us to come together in unity as brothers and
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  Speaker 1: as sisters. Amen. Now verse fifty one, Ye, stiff necked
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  Speaker 1: in uncircumcised and heart and ears, you do always resist
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost as your fathers did. So do ye.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going back from the old King James and new
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  Speaker 1: King James. You stiff necked in uncircumcised in heart and years.
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  Speaker 1: You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did,
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  Speaker 1: so do you. Wow, that is a sad place to
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  Speaker 1: be in because the Holy Spirit always testifies of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We can't get saved without the Holy Spirit. This right here,
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  Speaker 1: If you resist the Holy Spirit, you are sealing your doom. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the way he's speaking at this point is prophetic. It's
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  Speaker 1: prophetic language, echoeing Moses and the prophets Moses. He's echoing
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  Speaker 1: Moses and the Prophets. Stiff necked describes an os that
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  Speaker 1: refuses to be guided. It could be good in some areas,
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  Speaker 1: but is not good in our relationship with God. Is
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  Speaker 1: never good to be stiff necked in our walk with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. This issue is in ignorance, its resistance. They
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  Speaker 1: knew what they were doing for the most part. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Stephan just crossed the line. But it was a holy
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  Speaker 1: line right here. It was a line that needed to
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  Speaker 1: be crossed. Now, circumcision was physical, but God always wanted
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  Speaker 1: the heart. They had ears, but refused to hear knowledge
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  Speaker 1: without submission. Now, let's be honest. You could be saved
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  Speaker 1: and still resist the Holy Spirit. Man, This is so true,
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  Speaker 1: and it is scary amen. Verse fifty two. Which other
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  Speaker 1: prophets have you not your father's persecuted? And they have
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  Speaker 1: slain them which shoot before the coming of the Just One,
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  Speaker 1: of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers?
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  Speaker 1: Which other prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they
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  Speaker 1: killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One,
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  Speaker 1: of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers
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  Speaker 1: of Wow, Wow, Wow Wow. Now Stephan traces a consistent
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  Speaker 1: pattern here. God sends messengers, people reject them. God vindicates
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  Speaker 1: the messenger, Jesus. This was the the accumulation, excuse me
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  Speaker 1: of that rejection Jesus was accumulation of all that. It
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  Speaker 1: was all leading up to Jesus himself. They rejected their
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  Speaker 1: very own Messiah. Now this his heart right here. They
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  Speaker 1: honored dead prophets, but killed living prophets. They killed the
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  Speaker 1: living truth, Jesus himself. Stephan exposes hypocrisy. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. You decorate the graves of prophets, but crucify
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: That is.
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  Speaker 1: Hypocrisy at its highest. Man. We have to guard our
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  Speaker 1: hearts because we all have the potential to behave this
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  Speaker 1: way fifty three, who have received a law by the
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  Speaker 1: disposition of angels and have not kept it? Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is convicted right here, who received the law by the
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  Speaker 1: direction of angels and have not kept the law? Now,
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  Speaker 1: the law was divinely delivered to the nation of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: but humanity broken. It was delivered by angels, but it
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  Speaker 1: was broken by humans. Law without grace condemns. Law is
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  Speaker 1: what makes us guilty. Law is what revives sin in us. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this can be devastating. They prided themselves on having the law,
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  Speaker 1: but never lived it out, never obeyed it. Truth you
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  Speaker 1: don't obey becomes judgment. Let me say that again. Truth.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't obey, it becomes judgment. Wow I am.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about y'all, but I'm convicted. Amen, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to verse fifty four. Or when
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  Speaker 1: they heard these things, they were cut to the heart,
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  Speaker 1: and they gnashed on him with their teeth, Y King James,
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  Speaker 1: and they heard this thing, They were cut to the heart,
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  Speaker 1: and they gnashed at him with their teeth. Man almost
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  Speaker 1: worded exactly the same. Now, being cut to the heart
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always lead to repentance, right sometimes it leads to rage.
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  Speaker 1: Conviction rejected becomes violence. Let me say that again. Conviction
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  Speaker 1: when it's rejected becomes violence. You can tell when someone
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  Speaker 1: is fighting against the Holy Spirit. But there's still hope
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  Speaker 1: because I think of the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: became violent when he resisted the Holy Spirit. Even Jesus
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  Speaker 1: himself said, isn't it hard to kick against the golds?
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  Speaker 1: And he began to arrest the church and persecute and
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  Speaker 1: put people to death. But God was still able to
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  Speaker 1: reach him a man. So if you have a family member,
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  Speaker 1: a loved one right now, we have a family member
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  Speaker 1: who is all out rebelling against God right now and
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  Speaker 1: has perpetrated violence, and it's doing a lot of destructive things.
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  Speaker 1: But I believe she doesn't know it, but she is
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  Speaker 1: fighting against the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I pray
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  Speaker 1: that God will arrest her heart. Amen. See truth though
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't always produce tears, sometimes it produces teeth grinding anger.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same gospel, but it's a different heart. And
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  Speaker 1: when I was teaching this at my home church, fresh Wind,
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the difference between this crowd and Peter's crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Remember at the Day of Pentecost, those men were moved
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  Speaker 1: and convicted by their hearts as well. But their response
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  Speaker 1: was how must we be saved? Like, what must we
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  Speaker 1: do this one? They're gnashing their teeth at Stephan ay
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  Speaker 1: Man verse fifty five. But he, being full of the Holygos,
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  Speaker 1: looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of
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  Speaker 1: God and Jesus standing on the right hand of the Father. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and
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  Speaker 1: saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of God, and said, look, I see the
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  Speaker 1: heavens open, and the Son of Man standing at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of God. Amen. Back to the King James
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  Speaker 1: and staid, behold, I see that heaven's open and the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man standing on the right hand of God. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is amazing right here.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is always described as sitting at the right hand
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  Speaker 1: of the Father. Here he is standing honoring his first
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  Speaker 1: faithful witness. Heaven opens to earth's persecution. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: that you gave your life to Christ and the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you see is Christ standing at the right hand
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  Speaker 1: of the Father. The first thing you're gonna think is
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  Speaker 1: it was worth it all? Amen? Now this is powerful.
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  Speaker 1: While they're losing control, Stephan is filled with the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Earth is raging, Heaven is open, Jesus is standing. That's
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  Speaker 1: a t shirt. The earth is raging, Heaven is open,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is standing. Hallelujah. Let that be our story, Allow
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  Speaker 1: that to be our experience, Amen, Verse fifty seven. Then
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  Speaker 1: they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears,
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  Speaker 1: and ran upon him with one accord. While then they
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  Speaker 1: cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and
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  Speaker 1: ran at him with one accord. And they cast him
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  Speaker 1: out of the city and stoned him a man. And
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  Speaker 1: they cast him out of the city and stoned him.
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  Speaker 1: And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the young
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  Speaker 1: man's feet, whose name is Saul. Now this is the
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  Speaker 1: first mention of the apostle, Paul right here. His name
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  Speaker 1: is Saul. He goes to become the apostle. But let's
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  Speaker 1: not get ahead of ourselves. Now they've literally stopped their ears.
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  Speaker 1: A physical picture of spiritual refusal. Man, how stubborn can
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  Speaker 1: you be?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Religion without the spirit becomes very dangerous. And we can
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  Speaker 1: see that around the world today. Amen. Now they didn't
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  Speaker 1: debict him, they silenced him. When truth threatens power, violence
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  Speaker 1: will follow. Let me say that again. When truth threatens power,
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  Speaker 1: they will try to silence you. They will come at
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  Speaker 1: you with violence. All right, let's finish this out Acts
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  Speaker 1: Chapter seven, verse fifty nine and sixty. And they stone Stephan,
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  Speaker 1: calling upon God and saying, Lord, Jesus, receive my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: And he kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: laying out this sin to their charge. And when he
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  Speaker 1: had said this, he fell asleep. Amen. The new King,
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  Speaker 1: James says, And they stoned Stephan as he was calling
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  Speaker 1: on God and saying, Lord, Jesus, receive my spirits. Then
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  Speaker 1: he kneeled down and cried out with a loud voice, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: do not charge them with this sin. And when he
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  Speaker 1: had said this, he fell asleep. Amen. Now Stephan mirrors
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  Speaker 1: Jesus exactly, trusting God and forgiving his enemies. Now this
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  Speaker 1: is called the ultimate evidence of the Holy Spirit's power.
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  Speaker 1: Only by the Holy Spirit could this have been done.
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  Speaker 1: This is not weakness, this is Christ's likeness. Right here,
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  Speaker 1: Stephan dies praying for his killers. Man, how many of
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  Speaker 1: us could do the same thing. That's the Gospel lived,
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  Speaker 1: not just preached. Man, And I want to believe one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent that our brothers and sisters abroad who are
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  Speaker 1: giving their lives for the Gospel, they are probably following
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. I doubt that they are dying cursing
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  Speaker 1: their enemies, but forgiving them, praying for them, and loving them. Oh, God,
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  Speaker 1: give us the same spirit. Now, as we closed this book,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things I wanted to point out. And
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really get a chance to come to a
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  Speaker 1: conclusion when I was teaching that fresh Win. But if
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  Speaker 1: I mean asked some great questions if you listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: available to listen to in the archives right here. But
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  Speaker 1: one point I wanted to point out was the fact
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  Speaker 1: that these men were empowered by the Holy Spirit. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to point out how the Apostles, especially Peter, denied Christ.
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  Speaker 1: He was basically afraid of a servant girl and now
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  Speaker 1: transformed into a powerful witness, and Stephan receives the same spirit. Now,
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  Speaker 1: remember they say that he did wonders in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of the people of Israel, and miracles and signs. Now
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  Speaker 1: when they were killing him, I believe he had the
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  Speaker 1: power to curse that whole crowd. He could have cursed everyone,
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  Speaker 1: because remember Jesus says that we have been given the
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  Speaker 1: keys of the kingdom. If we forgive those, their sins
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  Speaker 1: will be forgiven. But if we charge those, then their
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  Speaker 1: sins will remain. Like the Lord has given that power
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  Speaker 1: in our hands. Now, I imagine if Stephan was of
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  Speaker 1: a different spirit decided to curse the crowd. Guess who
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  Speaker 1: is in that crowd. That's right, the Apostle Paul himself.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is just my opinion, and Stephan would have
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  Speaker 1: cursed that whole crowd. We probably would not have had
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul, and I believe a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: books in the New Testament would have been missing because
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  Speaker 1: Paul would have been exed out of the whole race.
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  Speaker 1: And so application time, who are you withholding forgiveness from
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  Speaker 1: this man forgave his killers as they were in the
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  Speaker 1: act of doing so. Not just one killer, a group
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  Speaker 1: of killers, a group of murderers. His life was leaving
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  Speaker 1: his body, and his last breath was forgive them. Do
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  Speaker 1: not lay this sin at their charge, just like Jesus Christ, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: love it. This is where we need to be and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm there. I got some work to do.
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  Speaker 1: But this right here, it's Christ's likeness. Which apostle Paul
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  Speaker 1: in your life? Are you holding in chains? Release your
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul. The world needs him forgive that person so
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  Speaker 1: they can go on and do the work of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Be right back.
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  Speaker 6: I can't let nobody stop it stop. I can't let
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  Speaker 6: nobody stop me. No, I can't let nobody stop me.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't let nobody stop me now.
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  Speaker 2: I can't let nobody stop me. Not be doing this.
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  Speaker 2: I long to feel like winning. Just so Ivy Nod
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  Speaker 2: came from the trenches, or did it? Independent settle? He
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  Speaker 2: got his big headed cap don't fit it.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't no lives in them speaking on it only tell
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  Speaker 6: the truth so much shorter on me. Now wipe me
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  Speaker 6: down like some a suit. We've been really in the
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  Speaker 6: field finning, finally eat the food. Don't you try to
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  Speaker 6: touch my meal? Mop you old my loop and my
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  Speaker 6: dogs put in work, be stepping.
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  Speaker 2: On your turf.
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  Speaker 6: We've been really at their neck, and we findlam make
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  Speaker 6: it worse. If they really trying to stop me, better
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  Speaker 6: put me in a horse track and mud all their
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  Speaker 6: house because we got it out the dirt we were
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  Speaker 6: talking about.
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  Speaker 5: I can't let nobody stop me trying to catch a
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  Speaker 5: blessing for I.
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  Speaker 2: Catch a body.
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  Speaker 3: Come.
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  Speaker 2: My whole team with me.
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  Speaker 5: Know they got me and nobody righty righty like nobody doro.
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  Speaker 2: I can't let nobody stop me stop. I can't let.
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  Speaker 6: Nobody stop me. No, yeah, I can't let nobody stop me.
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  Speaker 6: But I can't let nobody stop me.
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  Speaker 2: Now shot start.
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  Speaker 5: I can't let nobody standing start trying to catch a
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  Speaker 5: blessing for I catch a boddy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a whole team.
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  Speaker 5: Women know they got me thinking and nobody righty righty
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  Speaker 5: like nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Jump.
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  Speaker 2: I can't let nobody stop it. Get you stop. I
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  Speaker 2: can't let nobody stop me.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't let nobody stop it.
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  Speaker 6: I can't let nobody stop me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, we are back from that break.
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  Speaker 1: That is our brother Derek Minor. Ain't let nobody stop us.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, y'all, this is the gospel. All right. We
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  Speaker 1: just finished Acts chapter seven with Stephan's defense. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be taking a look at the apostle Paul right here.
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  Speaker 1: But Stephan gave his blessing. He released these men from
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  Speaker 1: this sin. And look at how the gospel spread in
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  Speaker 1: that area in a major way. Amen, hallelujah. All right,
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  Speaker 1: now it's time for the accountability partner. This is where
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  Speaker 1: we pray for each other. This is where we confess
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  Speaker 1: our weaknesses, where we confess our struggles. This is where
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  Speaker 1: we hold each other accountable. Right, It only works as
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  Speaker 1: if we're honest. We have integrity, and it's great, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's great to come together and agree in prayer because
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  Speaker 1: there's power and agreement. Some things in our lives will
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  Speaker 1: not be broken until we agree with our brother and
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  Speaker 1: sister in prayer. Look it up, study it up, read
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  Speaker 1: it out. The Bible says one can chase a thousand,
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  Speaker 1: but two can chase ten thousands. So there's always power
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• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you are either facing a problem, you're coming out of
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  Speaker 1: And so today's challenge for the Accountability Partner, or should
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  Speaker 1: are you resisting the Holy Spirit right now? Right? It's
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  Speaker 1: difficult to be in perfect surrender, perfect submission. Is it forgiveness?
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  Speaker 1: Are you refusing to forgive someone? Our pastorally says, are
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  Speaker 1: you better than God? Are you bigger than God? If
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  Speaker 1: God can forgive, who are you to withhold it? Are
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you resisting the Holy Spirit on your obedience? Are we
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: refusing to obey in a certain area of our lives?
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  Speaker 1: Or could it be letting go of tradition? It could
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  Speaker 1: was present at Stephen's stoning and later became a major
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  Speaker 1: figure in the church. Let me ask that again. Who
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: was present at stephen stoning? And later he wrote two
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: thirds of the New Testament? Amen I actually mentioned him
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: in this segment, so that should be an easy one.
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• 40:32
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  Speaker 1: Stephan didn't die defeated. This was not a defeat for
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  Speaker 1: Stephan or for the Early Church. He died because he
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  Speaker 1: was faithful, faithful and loyal to our Savior Jesus. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: if you want the same boldness as Stephan, and if
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you want a heart that is like Christ, now is
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  Speaker 1: the time. Now pray with me, because we can't close
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  Speaker 1: out this say without prayer together. And the first thing
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  Speaker 1: we need to do is to repent. Ask God for forgiveness,
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  Speaker 1: not just because of the things that we've done that
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  Speaker 1: we're wrong, but the things that we should have done
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  Speaker 1: and didn't do. It's called the sins of omission and comission.
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  Speaker 1: So let's pray, Heavenly Father, forgive us for our sins
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  Speaker 1: this day. Forgive us for failing to be faithful, even
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  Speaker 1: in the small areas. Forgive us for giving into temptation
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  Speaker 1: the things that we failed to do, and for the
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  Speaker 1: things that we did do the words we've said, our attitudes,
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  Speaker 1: the conviction of the Holy Spirit. We apply the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, Oh God. Right now, Lord, I applied on
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  Speaker 1: myself and on everyone listening to this segment. Watch us clean,
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  Speaker 1: put a hedge around us, and cancel the assignments of
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  Speaker 1: hell in our lives. Oh God, Father God, we see
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  Speaker 1: the great power that fell on Stephan in the early
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  Speaker 1: Church and the Apostles. We asked for that same power,
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  Speaker 1: that same spirit to fall on us. Now, let us
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  Speaker 1: message and with the power to preach it with miracles,
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  Speaker 1: we receive the power. We receive your forgiveness because you
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  Speaker 1: are faithful to your word. Strengthen our faith in these areas,
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  Speaker 1: Oh Lord. And we asked this in Jesus' name. Amen, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: If you pray that prayer, let us know in the
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  Speaker 1: And remember, it's not about us, It's all about the
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  Speaker 1: Christ in us. Amen.
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