48"Yet that doesn''t mean that Most High God lives in a building made by carpenters and masons. The prophet Isaiah put it well when he wrote,g
49"Heaven is my throne room; I rest my feet on earth. So what kind of house will you build me?" says God. "Where I can get away and relax?h
Acts 7 records Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin, the longest speech in Acts. Rather than a legal defense, Stephen retells Israel's story from Abraham to Solomon, highlighting a recurring pattern: God's people resist His messengers and miss His presence. The speech culminate
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