"And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people." -- "They went on stoning Stephen as he called on the Lord and said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!” -- "...I also was standing by approving, and watching out for the coats of those who were slaying him." (Acts 6:8, Acts 7:59, Acts 22:20).

Sometimes, when you preach Grace and move with confidence in your spiritual gifts for people's benefit, you get stoned. But that's OK, because sometimes the person doing (or approving) the stoning ends up becoming a Paul: they get knocked off their (high) horse, the scales fall off their eyes, and their name (or purpose) changes. It is then that they will continue striving, for the REST (both duration and condition) of their life, to explain both their encounter with the agape love from their Father and His continual pleasure in them as a beloved child, because of the super-abounding grace in which they have ALWAYS existed.

May their dullness of hearing be gone, so that they may receive and understand the word of righteousness (Hebrews 5:11-13).