Bulletin https://faithlife.com/slccfaith/bulletins/122031840

"From Rags to Rewards"

1) Stephen was ______ with the ____ Spirit and spoke with great ________ and __________.

Acts 7:51

51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.

2) All of us must _________ ask the ____ to _______ our ______.

Psalm 139:23-24

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!3

24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting!4

Acts 7:52-53

52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”

3) We may ___ throw ______ but we throw ______. We say things that ____ others.

Acts 7:54

The Stoning of Stephen

54 Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.

4) Stephen ____ them very ___ because he ____ them what was ____.

Acts 7:55

55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing pat the right hand of God.

Acts 7:56

56 And he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing pat the right hand of God.”

Mark 16:19

19 So then the Lord Jesus, g after he had spoken to them, h was taken up into heaven and i sat down at the right hand of God.

5) How _______ this will be and how _____ the ________ as we get ____.

Acts 7:57

57 But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together2 at him.

6) It seems like many _____ also hold their ____ shut when it comes to _______ about _____.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

15 And I commend j oy, for man w has nothing better under the sun but to x eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.

Acts 7:58

58 Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments vat the feet of a young man named Saul.

7) God is going to do something _______ to ____ and he will _______ this day for ____ years to come.

Acts 7:59

59 And as they were stoning Stephen, whe called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 7:60

60 And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.