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Moses The Minister Series
Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Mar 28, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: Moses the Minister
Acts 7:37 - 43 Moses the Minister
1. His Prophecy
The Man - 37 This is that Moses,
The Messenger - which said unto the children of Israel,
The Message - A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
like unto me;
A Prophet - A prophet
A Promise - shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
A Provision - of your brethren,
A Purpose - like unto me;
A Power - him shall ye hear.
2. His Provision - It Is -
A Broken Place - 38 This is he,
A Barren Place - that was in the church in the wilderness
A Blessed Place - with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina and with our fathers:
A Binding Place - who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
3. His Prevention
The Root of Disobedience - 39 to whom our fathers would not obey,
The Response of Disobedience - but thrust him from them,
The Result of Disobedience - and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,
4. His Provocation -
They Rejected -
The Man - 40 saying unto Aaron,
The Message - Make us gods to go before us:
The Messenger - for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt,
we wot not what is become of him.
The Master -
Their Works - 41 And they made a calf in those days,
Their Worship - and offered sacrifice unto the idol,
Their Wickedness - and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
5. His Proclamation
God's Timing - 42 Then God turned,
God's Terror - and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
God's Truth - as it is written in the book of the prophets,
God's Testimony -
Their Distinction - O ye house of Israel,
Their Denial - have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Their Departure - 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
(an Ammonite idol to whom children were sacrificed)
and the star of your god Remphan, (the Coptic name for Saturn, to which the Arabs, Egyptians, and Phoenicians paid divine honours.)
Their Depravity - figures which ye made to worship them:
Their Denunciation - and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
