Are these charges true? 6/23/15

Day 172 - Reading the New Testament in one year.

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/niv/Acts.7

Acts 7:1-21
Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin
7 Then the high priest asked Stephen, “Are these charges true?”

2 To this he replied: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Harran. 3 ‘Leave your country and your people,’ God said, ‘and go to the land I will show you.’[a]

4 “So he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Harran. After the death of his father, God sent him to this land where you are now living. 5 He gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. But God promised him that he and his descendants after him would possess the land, even though at that time Abraham had no child. 6 God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated. 7 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come out of that country and worship me in this place.’[b] 8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth. Later Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

9 “Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him 10 and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt. So Pharaoh made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.

11 “Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food. 12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit. 13 On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family. 14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. 15 Then Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our ancestors died. 16 Their bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.

17 “As the time drew near for God to fulfill his promise to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had greatly increased. 18 Then ‘a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.’[c] 19 He dealt treacherously with our people and oppressed our ancestors by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

20 “At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child.[d] For three months he was cared for by his family. 21 When he was placed outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

June 23rd A new base 

“And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.”
2 CORINTHIANS 5:15
One of the main reasons that Christ died on the cross was to give us a new base of operation in our spirit, that we would no longer live to ourselves. Thus, the practical issue of the cross in our lives is that we no longer live to ourselves but to Him. This means we have a new center, a new point of reference, a new base from which we operate, a new source from which we draw our resources. In Galatians 2:20 our new base of operation is described: “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” Our base of operation is no longer our self. The cross has freed us from ever again having to take the self as the source from which we live. Now we can deal with everything from the Lord, in the Lord, and with the Lord. We have to worship the Lord for coming to us by His mighty hand in our environment, through the members of the Body, and through the supply from the Word — all of which are to deal with our self to effect a transfer of source. This transfer to a new base of operation means that we no longer operate out of the self. When the self is denied, we are a person enjoying the Lord as our source. This denying of self is not the practice of asceticism; rather, it issues from our enjoyment of Christ as the Spirit in our spirit. By the Spirit we are putting to death all the practices of the body (Rom. 8:13). In this way we are operating out of a new base. However, the less we allow the Lord to deal with our self, the more we will crowd Christ out, not allowing Him to be our source and center from which we handle everything. If the self is not denied, we are just little “gods,” doing our own thing and operating our own lives. Our base of operation and understanding is just the self. Thus, we can see that the goal of dealing with the self is to effect a subjective transfer of source, giving us a new base of operation.

Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH)

Anna, Ariana,Ariel, Rene, and Willie.

Health and Healing

Vonetta's mom and Willie

Support and Comfort

Praise Alert
Anna is out of the hospital.

National
Conflict between citizens and  police officer. 

International

Israel and Palestine
Iraq

Syrians

Ukraine

Missing plane and passengers.
Missing Nigerian Christian girls.
Families of slain Kenyans.
Families of all the recent plane crashes.

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