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MAY 25, 2022
STUDY NOTES
ACTS 7:20-43
BIBLE TEACHER: CLIFTON JONES
“THE GOD OF GLORY”—PART 2
INTRODUCTION
Our title for the message comes from, Act 7:2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God
of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,
Stephen’s message to the Sanhedrin Court was:
The God of Glory appeared to Abraham (vss.
2-8)
The God of Glory appeared to Joseph (vss.
9-19)
The God of Glory appeared to Moses (vss.
20-43)
The God of Glory is the God of the Tabernacle (vss.
44-46)
The God of Glory is the God of the Temple (vss.
47-50)
The God of Glory is the God Israel rejected (vss.
51-53)
The God of Glory is the God of Stephen (vss.
54-60)
Stephen begins his message with the beginning of the nation of Israel, God’s call to Abraham
He uses the history of Israel to show how God worked through Israel to bring forth their Messiah, Jesus
He used their history to show how often Israel had refused to believe God and obey His word
And now they are as guilty as their fathers were because they had rejected Jesus as the Messiah
Stephen was teaching and preaching Jesus because he believed God and accepted Jesus as the Savior
The point of Stephen’s message is, “to God be the Glory, because He is “The God of Glory”
THE GOD OF GLORY IS THE GOD OF MOSES (Acts 7:20-43)
Stephen had been accused of speaking blasphemous words against Moses (Acts 6:11)
Stephen now presents the truth of Moses according to the Old Testament scripture
He also shows the Sanhedrin the truth of how Israel rejected God’s chosen man, Moses
God’s hand was upon Moses at the time of his birth, God miraculously delivered him (20-21)
The king had ordered the death of every male Hebrew baby, Exo 1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his
people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Moses’ parents believed that their son was a gift from God
They knew that if that was true, God’s protective hand would be upon him
They protected him for three months from the hands of Pharaoh’s soldiers
Then they placed Moses in a basket and put him in the river, God honored the faith of Moses’ parents
Through the hand of God, Pharaoh’s daughter found him and took him as her son
Moses’ own mother was hired by Pharaoh’s daughter to nurse the baby
Moses grew up in Egypt, his education prepared him to be a prince in Egypt, but he was not an Egyptian
In his heart he knew that he was an Israelite, he knew that God had a purpose for his life (22-23)
Stephen had a purpose in mind when he said Moses “was mighty in words and deeds”
Throughout his message Stephen is pointing to the truth of Jesus, compare the description, Luk 24:19
And he said unto them, What things?
And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a
prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
Moses knew that his brethren was the children of Israel, and that he was called by God to help them
Moses proved his calling by protecting an Israelite and expected his brethren to understand why (24-25)
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He thought that by killing the Egyptian they would know God sent him to deliver Israel from bondage
Stephen’s point is that Israel had rejected the one God sent to deliver them (26-28)
They should have been reminded of Israel’s rejection of Jesus when Pilate presented Him to them,
Joh 19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the
Jews, Behold your King! Joh 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him.
Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King?
The chief priests answered, We have no king but
Caesar.
Joh 19:16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified.
And they took Jesus, and
led him away.
Moses had to leave Egypt and was gone for 40 years, Israel continued to suffer in Egypt
Moses became the father of two sons (29) their names are interesting and significant
The first son, Exo 2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been
a stranger in a strange land.
The meaning is he was a child born while Moses was an alien in a foreign land
The second son, Exo 18:4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was
mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
THE GOD OF GLORY APPEARS TO MOSES
Act 7:30 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina
an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
The account of Moses and the burning bush experience is found in Exodus 3:1-10
It was a holy experience, Exo 3:5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet,
for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
(Acts 7:33)
Most conservative Bible scholars agree that this was an appearance of the pre-incarnate Christ
No wonder Moses marveled at that which he saw, and then he heard the “voice of the Lord,” Act 7:32
Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob.
Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
God assures Moses that He had not forgotten or forsaken His chosen people, Act 7:34 I have seen, I
have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am
come down to deliver them.
And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
Forty years earlier Moses had in mind the deliverance of his brethren from Egyptian bondage
Now God says, “I will send thee into Egypt,” God would deliver His chosen people through Moses
Stephen is continually presenting OT truths that have NT applications
God saw the affliction of sinful man and sent His Son to deliver them, Gal 1:4 Who gave himself for our
sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
Israel refused their God-sent deliverer, they could have been delivered 40 years earlier
They denied Moses, but God had prepared Moses to be their deliverer (Acts 7:35)
None other than the one they had earlier rejected is the one God used to bring them out of Egypt
Act 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt,
and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
Stephen covers a lot of years and events in this verse, he does not detail those years and events
But the Jews knew the story well, they were educated in the work of God through Moses
They also knew the truth of what Stephen then tells them, Act 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto
the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like
unto me; him shall ye hear.
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They knew that Stephen quoted from a Messianic prophecy, Deu 18:15 The LORD thy God will raise up
unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
Stephen spoke clearly, this Moses, rejected by Israel, the one who delivered Israel from Egypt
He is the one who gave us the great Messianic prophecy, Peter had already told them the same thing,
Act 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of
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