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7\u00a0<\/strong>Then the high priest asked Stephen, \u201cAre these charges true?\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

2\u00a0<\/sup>To this he replied: \u201cBrothers and fathers,\u00a0listen to me! The God of glory\u00a0appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.\u00a03\u00a0<\/sup>\u2018Leave your country and your people,\u2019 God said, \u2018and go to the land I will show you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

4\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cSo he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living.\u00a05\u00a0<\/sup>He gave him no inheritance here,\u00a0not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land,\u00a0even though at that time Abraham had no child.\u00a06\u00a0<\/sup>God spoke to him in this way: \u2018For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.\u00a07\u00a0<\/sup>But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,\u2019 God said, \u2018and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.\u00a08\u00a0<\/sup>Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.\u00a0And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth.\u00a0Later Isaac became the father of Jacob,\u00a0and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

9\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cBecause the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph,\u00a0they sold him as a slave into Egypt.\u00a0But God was with him\u00a010\u00a0<\/sup>and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

11\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThen a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.\u00a012\u00a0<\/sup>When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit.\u00a013\u00a0<\/sup>On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was,\u00a0and Pharaoh learned about Joseph\u2019s family.\u00a014\u00a0<\/sup>After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family,\u00a0seventy-five in all.\u00a015\u00a0<\/sup>Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died.\u00a016\u00a0<\/sup>Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

17\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cAs the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased.\u00a018\u00a0<\/sup>Then \u2018a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.\u00a019\u00a0<\/sup>He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

20\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cAt that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.\u00a0For three months he was cared for by his family.\u00a021\u00a0<\/sup>When he was placed outside, Pharaoh\u2019s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.\u00a022\u00a0<\/sup>Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians\u00a0and was powerful in speech and action.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

23\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cWhen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.\u00a024\u00a0<\/sup>He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian.\u00a025\u00a0<\/sup>Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.\u00a026\u00a0<\/sup>The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, \u2018Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?\u2019<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

27\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cBut the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, \u2018Who made you ruler and judge over us?\u00a028\u00a0<\/sup>Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?\u2019\u00a029\u00a0<\/sup>When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

30\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cAfter forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.\u00a031\u00a0<\/sup>When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. As he went over to get a closer look, he heard the Lord say:\u00a032\u00a0<\/sup>\u2018I am the God of your fathers,\u00a0the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\u00a0Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

33\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThen the Lord said to him, \u2018Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.\u00a034\u00a0<\/sup>I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.\u2019<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

35\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThis is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, \u2018Who made you ruler and judge?\u2019\u00a0He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.\u00a036\u00a0<\/sup>He led them out of Egypt\u00a0and performed wonders and signs\u00a0in Egypt, at the Red Sea\u00a0and for forty years in the wilderness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

37\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cThis is the Moses who told the Israelites, \u2018God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your own people.\u00a038\u00a0<\/sup>He was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the angel\u00a0who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors;\u00a0and he received living words\u00a0to pass on to us.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

39\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cBut our ancestors refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.\u00a040\u00a0<\/sup>They told Aaron, \u2018Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who led us out of Egypt\u2014we don\u2019t know what has happened to him!\u00a041\u00a0<\/sup>That was the time they made an idol in the form of a calf. They brought sacrifices to it and reveled in what their own hands had made.\u00a042\u00a0<\/sup>But God turned away from them\u00a0and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.\u00a0This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201c\u2018Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
43\u00a0<\/sup>You have taken up the tabernacle of Molek
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the star of your god Rephan,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the idols you made to worship.
Therefore I will send you into exile\u00a0beyond Babylon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

44\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cOur ancestors had the tabernacle of the covenant law\u00a0with them in the wilderness. It had been made as God directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.\u00a045\u00a0<\/sup>After receiving the tabernacle, our ancestors under Joshua brought it with them when they took the land from the nations God drove out before them.\u00a0It remained in the land until the time of David,\u00a046\u00a0<\/sup>who enjoyed God\u2019s favor and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.\u00a047\u00a0<\/sup>But it was Solomon who built a house for him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

48\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cHowever, the Most High\u00a0does not live in houses made by human hands.\u00a0As the prophet says:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

49\u00a0<\/sup>\u201c\u2018Heaven is my throne,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and the earth is my footstool.
What kind of house will you build for me?
says the Lord.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Or where will my resting place be?
50\u00a0<\/sup>Has not my hand made all these things?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

51\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cYou stiff-necked people!\u00a0Your hearts\u00a0and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!\u00a052\u00a0<\/sup>Was there ever a prophet your ancestors did not persecute?\u00a0They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him\u2014\u00a053\u00a0<\/sup>you who have received the law that was given through angels\u00a0but have not obeyed it.\u201d<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

7\u00a0Then the high priest asked Stephen, \u201cAre these charges true?\u201d 2\u00a0To this he replied: \u201cBrothers and fathers,\u00a0listen to me! The God of glory\u00a0appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran.\u00a03\u00a0\u2018Leave your country and your people,\u2019 God said, \u2018and go to the land I will show you. 4\u00a0\u201cSo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1469,"parent":0,"template":"","books-of-the-bible":[508],"type-of-passage":[462],"topic":[385],"passage-topics":[289,293,288,285,287,294,295,291,284,290,283,286,292],"language":[51],"yoast_head":"\nStephen\u2019s speech to the Sanhedrin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Colin Earle recited Acts 7:2-53 on January 29, 2017 at the Altamont campus of Valley Bible Church in California. 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