Acts 7:1-16
The high priest
said, "Are these things so?"
He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared
to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
and said to him, 'Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into
a land which I will show you.'
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran.
From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you
are now living.
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot
on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed
after him, when he still had no child.
God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange
land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
'I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,' said God,
'and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.'
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father
of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob,
and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
"The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him
into Egypt. God was with him,
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and
wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all
his house.
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great
affliction. Our fathers found no food.
But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our
fathers the first time.
On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's
race was revealed to Pharaoh.
Joseph sent, and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives,
seventy-five souls.
Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that
Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.
Insight- When questioned by the high priest, Stephen spoke about the
dealings of God Almighty with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph and how he
established the covenant of circumcision with Abraham.
God keeps the covenants that he makes with his people. He is faithful.
Question- Do you believe that God Almighty has made a covenant of
gifting eternal life through his son Jesus Christ to all who believe in him?
Are you a recipient of that gift?
Prayer- Dear Father in Heaven, thank you that you are a covenant
keeping God. Help me to trust in your goodness and faithfulness. In Jesus name.
Amen.
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