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Patterns that Reveal God’s Purpose
By Apostle Aje Pelser at Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town, 12th May 2019.
In Stephen the Martyr’s Sermon we see several patterns that reveal God’s Purpose with His people in the past, present and future.
Pattern #1: Worship of not is not restricted to a geographical place.
Act 7:2 And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
Pattern #2: God revealed Himself to Abraham before he reached his promised land.
Act 7:3 and said to him, ‘GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY AND FROM YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.’
Pattern #3: God appeared to Moses and gave his laws to Moses while he was still in the wilderness.
Act 7:25 For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
Act 7:30 “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
Act 7:38 “This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,
Act 7:39 whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,
Pattern #4: God has never dwelt in temples made with hands. Heaven is His throne and earth is his footstool. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Act 7:47 But Solomon built Him a house.
Act 7:48 “However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
Act 7:49 ‘HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL. WHAT HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME? SAYS THE LORD, OR WHAT IS THE PLACE OF MY REST?
Act 7:50 HAS MY HAND NOT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?’
1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Eph 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Eph 2:20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
Eph 2:21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
Eph 2:22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Pattern #5: God’s true prophets always suffer rejection in their own time from their own people.
Act 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Act 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,
Joseph’s brothers sold him to the Ishmaelites as a slave. Moses was rejected by his own people even though God raised him up to be a deliverer of his people.
Act 7:9 “And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
Act 7:10 and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor
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By Apostle Aje Pelser at Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town, 12th May 2019.
In Stephen the Martyr’s Sermon we see several patterns that reveal God’s Purpose with His people in the past, present and future.
Pattern #1: Worship of not is not restricted to a geographical place.
Act 7:2 And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
Pattern #2: God revealed Himself to Abraham before he reached his promised land.
Act 7:3 and said to him, ‘GET OUT OF YOUR COUNTRY AND FROM YOUR RELATIVES, AND COME TO A LAND THAT I WILL SHOW YOU.’
Pattern #3: God appeared to Moses and gave his laws to Moses while he was still in the wilderness.
Act 7:25 For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.
Act 7:30 “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.
Act 7:38 “This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,
Act 7:39 whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,
Pattern #4: God has never dwelt in temples made with hands. Heaven is His throne and earth is his footstool. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Act 7:47 But Solomon built Him a house.
Act 7:48 “However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says:
Act 7:49 ‘HEAVEN IS MY THRONE, AND EARTH IS MY FOOTSTOOL. WHAT HOUSE WILL YOU BUILD FOR ME? SAYS THE LORD, OR WHAT IS THE PLACE OF MY REST?
Act 7:50 HAS MY HAND NOT MADE ALL THESE THINGS?’
1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Eph 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
Eph 2:20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
Eph 2:21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
Eph 2:22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Pattern #5: God’s true prophets always suffer rejection in their own time from their own people.
Act 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Act 7:52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers,
Joseph’s brothers sold him to the Ishmaelites as a slave. Moses was rejected by his own people even though God raised him up to be a deliverer of his people.
Act 7:9 “And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him
Act 7:10 and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor