{"id":1522,"date":"2019-04-07T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2019-04-07T08:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T16:42:25","slug":"devotion-acts-7-1-51-irrefutable-defense-part-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Acts 7.1-51 Irrefutable Defense Part 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
Acts 7:1-51 \/ 23-29<\/b>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201cWhen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. 26 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\u00a0 27 \u201cBut the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, \u2018Who made you ruler and judge over us?\u00a0 28 Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?\u2019 29 When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.\u00a0 \u201c\u201cWhen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.\u201d<\/i><\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Stephen stated Moses\u2019s age to be forty years old.\u00a0 However we do not see in the Old Testament that Moses was forty years old, but rather that He had \u201cgrown up.\u201d (Exodus 2:11<\/b>) The expression we might say is that he had \u201ccome into his own\u201d or that he had \u201carrived\u201d at the pinnacle of his success.\u00a0 Stephen, however, had not pulled the number forty out of his hat, but is likely relating the number that rabbis often taught was Moses age at that time.\u00a0 As the Lord has inspired here what His age was bears witness to the taught age of Moses.<\/div>\n
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\u201cHe saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 At this time Moses wanted to find out more about \u201chis own people.\u201d\u00a0 He likely was experiencing what many people are now experiencing as they make Ancestry.com such a popular website.\u00a0 It would seem quite natural that he would want to know more about his people that he has been separated from for forty years.<\/div>\n
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It would seem that the Moses had heard the calling that God had given to him to be used to rescue His people.\u00a0 Here again, the similarity between him and Jesus jumps out at us.\u00a0 Moses was called to redeem Israel as Jesus came to save Israel (Israel first and then the world).\u00a0 \u00a0The first instance of Moses stepping out to save his people he was rejected, he was not recognized as a man sent by God.\u00a0 We know that the majority of Jews also rejected Jesus as the man sent to be their Savior.\u00a0 Moses then went to the Gentiles and made his dwelling place among them. Jesus, after being rejected by Israel (In general) next made salvation available to the Gentiles.\u00a0 When Moses went back Israel, this time in the timing of God (Interestingly after another forty years), the calling came to fruition and Israel was saved as God worked through Moses.\u00a0 When Jesus comes back, Israel will be saved!\u00a0 Praise the Lord for the Scarlet thread of God\u2019s plan that runs through His Word!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe 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\u00a0 27 \u201cBut the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, \u2018Who made you ruler and judge over us?\u00a0 28 Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?\u2019 29 When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.\u00a0 \u201c\u201cWhen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0 Even when we know the Lord is calling us to a ministry or work, we must do it in the Lord\u2019s time and as He calls it to be done.\u00a0 It is His ministry that He allows us to be a part of and it is not our ministry.\u00a0 We too often decide, not by God\u2019s Word or by being led by His Spirit, when and how to do the ministry that God has called us out to do.\u00a0 We move in our timing and in our thoughts about how God will develop this ministry instead of seeking when and how God will move.\u00a0 \u00a0We become impatient and seek out how God moves with others instead of allowing His Spirit to lead, provide and guide us.\u00a0 Then we wonder why the ministry that we are sure that God called us to has not prospered.\u00a0 Sadly, many do not understand what it means to be led by the Spirit of God and that brings a sad ending to many good intentions.\u00a0 If God wants us to do something then let\u2019s be ready to go when He leads.\u00a0 True is the saying that \u201cWhere God guides, God provides.\u201d\u00a0 Praise our God who is faithful and patient with us and who can, even when we err, put us back on the right path and bring about His will for us.\u00a0 Thank you Lord!\u00a0 Praise you Lord!\u00a0 Praise God!<\/div>\n
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Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0– Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/div>\n
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Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0– But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.<\/div>\n
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Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0– He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acts 7:1-51 \/ 23-29\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u201cWhen Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[82,2257,94,17],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-acts","tag-exodus","tag-micah","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}