Sermon Illustrations for Easter 5 (2014)
Acts 7:55-60
When someone today claims to have a vision of Jesus and God, we don't drag them off to be stoned. We figure that they are stoned and take them to a rehab center.
There was a book written by a man who claimed to have received visions of the Lord, who gave him instructions. When the synod president read it, he said it must have been from God because everything God told that man was true to Lutheran doctrine. Why didn't the Pharisees believe, since everything Jesus said confirmed Old Testament scripture?