Title Receive My Soul (Acts 7:55-60)
Each person has a different way of living and different habits of living.
People who sit in the office from early morning until late at night and work all day looking at computer monitors.
People, there are people just giving phone numbers all day
There are people, and there are people who work in the freezer even in the cold winter.
Some people sleep during the day and work only at night, while others work all day and night.
What matters is not how you judge a person for their job, but how you respect and respect them.
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Deacon Stephen is an ordinary weaver, but to this day, he is respected as the most precious person to us.
What made you respect Deacon Stephen?
1. A person who speaks of heaven.
“(55) Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit… looked up to heaven, and looked up.”
Those who speak heavenly things speak by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit rather than by their own will or emotions,
All speak with meekness and humility.
And rather than speaking in a way that pleases people, you have to speak boldly and courageously with faith and conviction.
One should be able to look up to the sky and speak the heavenly things without being ashamed and not trembling with fear or anxiety.
All.
"(6:10) They were not able to withstand that Stephen spoke in wisdom and in the Holy Spirit..."
I need to be able to trust the people who hear me.
It should be able to speak of earthly things, heavenly things rather than worldly words.
2. A person who speaks not to blame others.
Of course, those who throw stones at the butler Stephen are full of sins and faults.
"(7:51) A stiff-necked man, uncircumcised in heart and ear... ye always resist the Holy Spirit"
"(52b) ... Now you are the raptors and murderers of the righteous."
"(53) You received the law that the angels preached, and you did not keep it."
"(54) And when they heard the word, they were pierced in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him."
"(57) And they cried out with a loud voice, and covered their ears, and rushed to him with all their heart."
"(58) Throw them out of the city and stone them"
“(59) And they stoned Stephen.”
This is enough to be condemned.
He is a socially murderer, religiously lawbreaker, and conscientiously stabbed and sharpening his teeth.
Still, Stephen said,
(60) "Lord, do not hold this sin against them."
3. A person who speaks asking the Lord for his soul
(59) And they stoned Stephen, and Stephen cried out, saying, Lord Jesus, receive my soul.
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When others cause serious harm or harm to me, and when I am falsely framed or threatened with life
It hurts a lot when you get it.
How painful it must be to be stoned to death by people you don't know, people who have neither manners nor common sense.
But Stephen said, Receive my soul, and entrusted everything to the Lord Jesus.
What can you do?
"(6:5) A man full of faith and the Holy Spirit"
“(6:8) Stephen was full of grace and power…”