• Sacrificing Ourselves

  • May 20 2024
  • Length: 46 mins
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Sacrificing Ourselves

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  • Having taken on Stephen in debate, the Jewish religionists realise they cannot take the theological high-ground. Instead, they resort to breaking their own law even further by stirring up hatred via the mob and recruiting false witnesses.--Stephen gives a potted history of Israel. By this, he shows his credentials as a Jew. However, towards its end he turns the story into a polemic against his audience, accusing them of killing their Messiah and those who predicted his coming- the prophets. He further tells them that they are breakers of the Mosaic Law.--His exclamation that he was seeing a vision of the Son at God's right hand was too much, and the crowd drags him away to kill him.--We can view the cause of his murder as a clash between his godly attributes and their wicked ones. We notice too the parallels between Stephen's death and that of Jesus. Finally, the definition of -martyr- is explored, and it is discovered that all God's people are to -martyr- themselves through daily sacrifice in God's service.
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