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Friday 9 October: Acts 7:51-54:
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Friday 9 October: Acts 7:51-54:
V51: The long record of God’s dealings with His OT people, and increasingly their rebellion and disobedience, is abruptly brought to an end, to accuse this generation of the same stubborn disbelief and refusal to heed the Holy Spirit their ancestors had shown.
V52-53: Their fathers have persecuted and killed the prophets God sent to them, rejecting their teaching of the coming of the ” righteous one” – of Jesus, God’s true anointed, whom they have now rejected and killed. ( Compare the Lord’s own parable in Matthew 21:33-39.) This is the culmination and purpose of Stephen’s whole address, showing how this generation have done just as their fathers did – in the ultimate way, by the death of Jesus Himself. Doesn’t this long account show the wonder of God’s long-suffering grace. Yet, as here, sinful hearts still reject His grace.
V54: They are untouched by all Stephen has said, and only react with fury and hatred.