Stephen’s Sermon: Beyond the Land Pt. 2
Continuing in Stephen’s sermon, with his counter accusations toward the Sanhedrin, against their temple idolizing, and their history of rejecting God’s servants sent to deliver them. We see that true worship is not that which trust in external forms and circumstances alone, but that which draws near to God through Christ, our true High Priest, both in Spirit and in truth.
Acts 7:9-16 “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household. Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first visit. And on the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family became known to Pharaoh. And Joseph sent and summoned Jacob his father and all his kindred, seventy-five persons in all. And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers, and they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.”
Series - “Acts: Christ’s Church Built”
Speaker: Samuel Wente