C.R.P. Day 322 - Acts 7-8

Stephen speaks against the blasphemous charges that were associated with him to the council; Stephen recounts Abraham leaving Mesopotamia I’m leaving his father; Abraham is given the covenant of the circumcision; and Abraham begets Isaac and circumcises Isaac on the eighth day; Isaac begets Jacob and Jacob he gets the 12 patriarchs; Stephen recounts Joseph and what happens to the children of Israel while in Egypt under Joseph; Stephen recounts the second pharaoh and how he places the children of Israel into bondage; Stephen recounts Moses being born to Hebrew parents but being raised in Egyptian by pharaohs daughter; Stephen recounts Moses seeing the burning bush; Stephen recounts David who found favor wanting to build a dwelling for the God of Jacob; but Solomon built God house; Stephen accuses the council of always resisting the Holy Spirit as their forefathers did; The councilmembers cry out with a loud voice stopped their ears and rent him with an accord they cast him out of the city and stoned him; Stephen gases into heaven and seize the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand before he dies he praise to the Lord to not charge them with the sin of killing him; so persecutes the Church; Phillip preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ in the city of Samaria; The people in Samaria previously followed Simon, a sorcerer, who also converts to following Jesus Christ; Peter and John, after hearing that some Maria has received the word of God, go to Philip; The Holy Spirit had not fallen upon any of those baptized in Samaria; When Simon, the sorcerer, sees Peter and John laying hands on the people and they receive the holy spirit he asked to be given that power also and offers them money; Peter rebuke Simon stating that he neither has part nor portion in this matter for his heart is not right in the side of God; he tells him to repent therefore of his wickedness and pray to God if perhaps the thought of his heart may be forgiven; Phillip is charged to leave Samaria and go down from Jerusalem to Gaza and there he meets an Ethiopian eunuch; Philip asked the eunuch as the eunuch is reading the prophet Isaiah, do you understand what you were reading? Philip explains the Scriptures and preaches to him about Jesus Christ and the Eunuch sees water and asked to be baptized immediately; The spirit takes Philip away from the Eunuch and he was found at Azotus and then in Caesarea;