“Why People Don’t Experience God”Acts 6:8-7:50

I. The Danger of Experience –(pride/unteachability) 6:9

I. The Danger of Experience –(pride/unteachability) 6:9

Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen.

Proverbs 16:18-19Pride goes before destruction,And a haughty spirit before a fall.Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Psalm 33:11-13The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men.

II> Creating a False God- 7:38-41

II> Creating a False God- 7:38-41

“This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us, whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods to go before us; as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ And they made a calf in those days, offered sacrifices to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

Romans 12:1-2I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

2 Peter 2:22But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

Romans 12:1-2I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 6:3-4Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

III> Clinging to Ritual So Much That It Blinds Us to His Awesomeness-

III> Clinging to Ritual So Much That It Blinds Us From His Awesomeness-

“However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says: ‘Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool.What house will you build for Me? says the LORD, Or what is the place of My rest? Has My hand not made all these things?’

Job 38:1-6Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:“Who is this who darkens counselBy words without knowledge?Now prepare yourself like a man;I will question you, and you shall answer Me. “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Tell Me, if you have understanding.

Who determined its measurements?Surely you know!Or who stretched the line upon it?To what were its foundations fastened?Or who laid its cornerstone,

All the way through Chap. 38 and 39 and begins 40

Job 40:2“Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?He who rebukes God, let him answer it.” Then Job answered the Lord and said:“Behold, I am vile;What shall I answer You?I lay my hand over my mouth.

Psalm 147:4-5He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding isinfinite.

Phil 3:13-14Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.