SAUL (''ASKED FOR''): ''THE MAN WHO WAS SINCERE, BUT SINCERELY WRONG'' (5 OF 7)
Scripture: Acts 7:51-60
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Saul (''asked for''): ''The man who was sincere, but sincerely wrong'' (5 of 7)
Series: Greatest Villains of the Bible
Richard Bradley
Acts 7:51-60
Have you ever been completely sincere about something but sincerely wrong? Just because we are sincere about what we believe; just because we believe fervently, it doesn't mean we aren't wrong. Also, believing strongly in something doesn't make us right. Saul was certainly fervent in his religious beliefs but he was completely wrong about what he believed. As God's people, we must be ultimately concerned with truth. It doesn't matter how sincere we are if we are sincerely wrong as was Saul.
THE REASON SAUL'S RELIGION WAS WRONG (Acts 7:51-60).
51 ''You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.''
54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, ''Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!'' 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, ''Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.'' 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, ''Lord, do not charge them with this sin.'' And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Saul's religion was wrong because Christ was not at the heart of his religious pursuits. In th ...
Series: Greatest Villains of the Bible
Richard Bradley
Acts 7:51-60
Have you ever been completely sincere about something but sincerely wrong? Just because we are sincere about what we believe; just because we believe fervently, it doesn't mean we aren't wrong. Also, believing strongly in something doesn't make us right. Saul was certainly fervent in his religious beliefs but he was completely wrong about what he believed. As God's people, we must be ultimately concerned with truth. It doesn't matter how sincere we are if we are sincerely wrong as was Saul.
THE REASON SAUL'S RELIGION WAS WRONG (Acts 7:51-60).
51 ''You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers, 53 who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it.''
54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, ''Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!'' 57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, ''Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.'' 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, ''Lord, do not charge them with this sin.'' And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
Saul's religion was wrong because Christ was not at the heart of his religious pursuits. In th ...
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