According to Stephen, those who reject Jesus are following the same path as the people who rejected Moses and then followed idols. Such a strong message strikes a nerve, and Stephen becomes the first martyr of the church because of it.

Proverbs 19:15 " Laziness casts one into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger"   Matt 5:6 "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For, they shall be filled."  My friends, Surrender is not Surrender until you’re Surrendered. Then and only then will the fruit of Surrender be evident to bring Glory to God. 

Drifting. Neglecting. Letting slip. This is the opposite of perseverance. The opposite of hanging in there over the long haul.

We find Jesus there. His deity, His glory, a Creator, Heir of all things, superior to all things, and Savior. If you knew nothing more about Him than you found in chapters 1-2, you would know abundant.  

Prayer is the breath of the spiritual man, and is nothing other than the sound of the Spirit of God in him; and such prayer cannot fail of success.  You see when we Pray to God this is communion with Him. God loves His bride to talk with Him.  

People store truths in their brains but never put them to use. For James, the only good religion is religion lived out every day.  My friends the Lord is returning for His bride that is without Spot or Wrinkle

Therefore, it would be a sin of omission for us not to care for the needy. In fact, this is how Jesus explains it at the end of Matthew 25 whereas people were cast into hell, not because of what they did, but because of what they didn’t do

God describes His relationship with His people like a marriage, and when His people forsake Him in sin, it is a picture of spiritual unfaithfulness or adultery.  
The more we are conformed to the pattern of this world, living like this world and loving this world, the more we betray our God and cheat on Him.  

You see, you don’t get this wisdom from intellectual effort of practical experience as much as you get it from being with God.  A kind of wisdom, a Godly wisdom, see’s things from an eternal perspective that only comes from God.  We must go to Him constantly in prayer and in the Word, crying out to Him in order to receive His wisdom. 

The question is Not. What is this wisdom?  But who is this Wisdom?  1st Corinth 1:24 says that Christ is the wisdom of God. Similarly, 1st Corinth 1:30 says that Christ became wisdom for us. As our substitute on the cross, our foolish words and their consequences were all imputed to Him, and His righteous words, His wisdom, was imputed to us