PT-3 "Moses" (Acts 7:17-37)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/18/2017 9:28 AM

My Worship Time                                                                                         Focus:  PT-3 “Moses”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Acts 7:17-37

            Message of the verse:  35  "This Moses whom they disowned, saying, ’WHO MADE YOU A RULER AND A JUDGE?’ is the one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush. 36  "This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.”

            Moses accomplished his mission despite having others who told him that he was not the one to rule over them and so we see in verse 36 that Moses led them out and as he led them out he performed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and he also divided the Red Sea so Israel could go across on dry land, and then in the wilderness for forty years more miracles were performed.  The children of Israel rebelled against Moses at the Red Sea, and also while in the wilderness causing them to have to be in the wilderness for forty years, as they wondered outside the Promised Land, as God was upset with this generation.

            As we read what Stephen had to say about Moses we can see that he had the greatest respect for Moses and certainly was not saying anything negative against him as his accusers said that he was doing.

            “37 “This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ’GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN.’”  This verse tells us that Moses reminds the Sanhedrin that Moses prophesied that God would raise up someone like him from the children of Israel.

            John MacArthur writes “That passage, taken from Deuteronomy 8:15, was well known to all of Stephen’s contemporaries.  In John 6:14, the crowd said to Jesus, “This is of a truth the Prophet who is to come into the world.”  They affirmed that He was the One Moses had promised would come, and affirmation with which these Jews would not agree.  They were thus doing again what their fathers had done—rejecting the God-sent deliverer.  Only this was more serious than all the others combined.  This was the Messiah they were rejecting.

            “Had the Sanhedrin been willing to consider the facts, they could not have missed the parallels between their nation’s history and their behavior toward Jesus.  Nor could they have missed the parallels between Jesus and Moses.  Moses humbled himself by leaving Pharaoh’s palace; Jesus humbled Himself by becoming man (Phil. 2:7-8).  Moses was rejected at first; so was Jesus (John 1:11).  Moses was a shepherd; Jesus is the Good Shepherd (John 10:11, 14).  Moses redeemed his people from bondage in Egypt; Jesus redeems men from bondage to sin.  The history of Moses foreshadows the history of Jesus Christ.

Answer to yesterday’s Bible question:  “Jezebel” (1 Kings 21:7-16)

Today’s Bible question:  “What classification is given to the letters of instruction pertaining to the governing of churches and training of church members?”

Then answer in our Next SD.

11/18/2017 9:46 AM