7 People In Act 2

When it comes to people in the Bible being like Jesus. My mind immediately goes to one person. This man became like Jesus in such a short amount of time. This man’s name is Stephen, and this is his story. In acts 6:1-7, we see that the church is growing rapidly and an issue is brought to the attention of the Apostles that the food rations were not given out fairly. So the 12 Apostles got together and they gathered the people and said get seven people from among you, with good reputations, wisdom, and full of the spirit. We will train and teach them to do this work. For it is not desirable for us to leave the Word of God to serve the tables. So the people are happy and they chose the seven people and in verse 5 is says they chose Stephen, a …show more content…
In verse 5 it says Stephen a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit. In verse 8 it says Stephen a man full of faith and Power. Verse 5 says faith in the original Greek and verse 8 says full of Grace. The Apostle Luke wanted us to really capture the essence of Stephen so he used full of Grace the second time. So what does it mean when it says he is full of grace? Luke used the word grace in its pre Christian usage as charm or charisma. The Grace of the Lord had produced an identifiable grace, a charisma, about Stephen. Meaning when Stephen was around, people listened because the grace of God was in him in such a way they felt at home around him. We see the Stephen was so full of the grace of Jesus Christ that he as a deacon, was able to perform miracles like the …show more content…
He started at Abraham and finished at David. And in verse 51 he told them you stiff necked and uncircumcised in the heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. You hear the Word but yet you do not follow it. The bible says that when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they became angry. Stephen being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. So they dragged him out of the city to stone him. and the Bible says that Stephen said Lord Jesus receive my Spirit and he knelt down and said Lord, do not charge them with this sin and when he said that he fell asleep. Who does this sound like? This man did nothing wrong but perform miracles, and treated people with love. Stephen’s story sounds very familiar to that of Jesus. When Jesus died he still effected the lives of people, so did Stephen. In the midst of Stephen’s death a man name Saul was present. It is easy believe that a seed was planted that day, and a few chapters later Saul became the Apostle Paul. So, now when thinking of people who were most like Jesus. Stephen can now be moved towards the top of the