LESSON 36

STEPHEN’S TESTIMONY – PART 8

GOD’S HOUSE

Acts 7:47-50 King James Version (KJV)

⁴⁷ But Solomon built him an house. ⁴⁸ Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, ⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? ⁵⁰ Hath not my hand made all these things?

Acts 7:47-50 Common English Bible (CEB)

⁴⁷ But it was Solomon who actually built a house for God.⁴⁸ However, the Most High doesn’t live in houses built by human hands. As the prophet says, ⁴⁹ Heaven is my throne,
    and the earth is my footstool. ‘What kind of house will you build for me,’ says the Lord,
    ‘or where is my resting place? ⁵⁰ Didn’t I make all these things with my own hand?

1.   SOLOMON’S TEMPLE TOOK 13 YEARS TO BUILD V. 47

Ø  1 Kings 9:9-11

2.   GOD DOESN’T LIVE IN TEMPLES MADE BY MAN V. 48

Ø  Heaven is my throne

Ø  Earth is my footstool

3.   WHAT HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD ME? V. 49b

4.   HATH NOT MY HAND MADE ALL THESE THINGS? V. 50

YET HE LIVES WITHIN OUR HEARTS!

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LESSON 35

STEPHEN’S TESTIMONY – PART 7

THE REPLACEMENT gods

Acts 7:41-46 King James Version (KJV)

⁴¹ And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. ⁴² Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? ⁴³ Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon. ⁴⁴ Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen. ⁴⁵ Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David; ⁴⁶ Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

1.   REJECTED GOD AND MOSES V. 40

2.   MADE A CALF + OTHER gods V. 41-43

3.   GOD GAVE THEM UP TO WORSHIP THE HOST OF HEAVEN V. 42

4.   TABERNACLE V. 44

5.   JOSHUA’S CAMPAIGN V. 45a

6.   DAVID’S SUCCESS V. 45b

7.   DAVID’S DESIRE V. 46

WE ARE TO SET THE LORD GOD EVER BEFORE OUR FACES IN WORSHIP HIM ONLY!

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LESSON 34

STEPHEN’S TESTIMONY – PART 6

REJECTION OF GOD’S LEADERSHIP

Acts 7:35-40 King James Version (KJV)

³⁵ This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. ³⁶ He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years. ³⁷ This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. ³⁸ This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: ³⁹ To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, ⁴⁰ Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

1.   THEY REFUSED MOSES’ LEADERSHIP V. 35

2.   GOD SENT HIM AS A DELIVER AND RULER V. 35B

3.   MOSES BROUGHT THEM OUT AND SHOWED SIGNS & WONDERS V. 36

4.   GOD WILL RAISE UP A PROPHET V. 37

5.   THIS IS HE V. 38

6.   FATHERS WOULD NOT OBEY V. 39

7.   MAKE US gods TO GO BEFORE US V. 40

REJECTION OF GOD OPENS THE DOOR FOR ALL MANNER OF EVIL TO COME

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