Moved with Envy

Open Door Baptist Church

Stephen’s case against the establishment has 8 accusations:

1.

Acts 7:2-10

The will of God was with Joseph, the establishment rejected him.

2.

Acts 7:17-29, 35

Moses came as a deliverer and was rejected. This is the first time that the children of Israel rejected Moses.

This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush. v. 35

3.

Acts 7:36-37

Moses prophesied the coming of the Messiah whom the establishment crucified.

4.

Acts 7:38-43

The tablets of the 10 commandments which Moses smashed and had to make again.

To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, v. 39

5.

Acts 7:40-41

The golden calf.

6.

Acts 7:42

The host of heaven.

7.

Acts 7:43

Moloch and Remphan.

8.

Acts 7:51-53

1. Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears
2. the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers
3. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.