No matter how plainly it was spelt out to them they chose to ignore the message. Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him. But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him. This was the final straw and they dragged him off and stoned him to death. Yet even here, Stephen not thinking of himself, prays for them.
Nothing has really changed has it.
Friend, today the offer of the glory of the salvation of Jesus Christ is staring you in the face. Yet do you accept it or do you still keep kicking back, do you keep resisting even though it has been plainly put to you many times before. It is all so much easier to be the equivalent of a TV couch potato through your life. It is so much easier to walk the wide and popular path of earthly materialism and easy rewards than it is to go along the narrow path that leads to salvation. Friend, the gift of forgiveness of sin, salvation and eternal life has been offered a considerable cost through the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.