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How precious the grace that Stephen showed as he knelt and cried with a loud voice: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge." It was the practical grace of a Christian doing well, suffering for it, and taking it patiently.
Excerpt- There had been a transitional testimony up to this. The Messiah was rejected on earth, and the Jews were the most extreme in urging the deepest shame and ignominy for Him who was born King of the Jews. Thus, they in their blindness fulfilled the scriptures that so it must be, if even privileged man be as wicked as God is good. But as Peter preached, God raised Him up and made the very Jesus whom His people crucified both Lord and Christ. No apostle exceeded this till now. In Acts 3:13 and 4:27 it is still the Messianic title of “servant” (not” Son”). Stephen, on the utter refusal of Israel to bow his stiff neck, testifies to His being “the Son of man:” an enlarged and judicial title of His glory, well known even in the O.T. in the Psalms and Prophets, as the Lord had pointed out its force from the time that rejection began decidedly. So that Stephen was quite in keeping with the truth; for the Jew stood in dead opposition to the glorified Messiah, no less than to the Messiah in humiliation. Jesus was still standing at God's right hand. But the Judge was at the door. So he saw Him on high and proclaimed Him as the Son of man, who will surely come in the clouds of heaven, judging Israel and all the nations.
Nor should we overlook that, as he said, Lo, I behold the heavens opened.” To him it was a literal sight, as none should doubt who believe in God's power and grace. It is recorded for our comfort in faith. For it is meant to be as real in its spiritual significance to the Christian, as it was in every way to him who saw and bore witness. As for us the veil is ever rent, so the heavens are always open. Jesus is there, the Son of God, sent that we might live through Him, and that He might die for us as propitiation for our sins. He is there now for us, man entered into the glory of God, and Savior of all who believe, the fore-runner for such there. And the heavens which were opened on Him, heaven's object, are open for us, that we may be at home in spirit there, before He comes to fetch us. Here we are unknown; our citizenship is there where He is. It is our joy and privilege to be heavenly, and not of the world as He is not. We are already delivered by His grace from that judgment which the Name imports for Israel and the nations; for we belong to Him, no longer to them. We say it, not of pride but of faith, being not even our own but bought with a price, and what a price!
Table of Contents
1. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 1.
2. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 2. The Appeal - Abraham
3. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 3. Joseph and His Patriarchal Brethren
4. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 4. Appeal to Moses Next
5. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 5. Moses in Midian
6. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 6. Moses in the Wilderness
7. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 7. The Tent Exchanged for the Temple
8. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 8. Appeal to Conscience. Acts 7:61-53
9. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 8. His Sight of Jesus on High and the Fury of the Jews
10. Stephen the Christian Protomartyr: 9. The Christian's Death Under Man