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

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

3. 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.

4. Proverbs 16:18-19
Pride 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.

5. Psalm 33:11-13
The 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.

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

7. 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,

8. 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.

9. Romans 12:1-2
I 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.

10. 2 Peter 2:22
But 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.”

11. Romans 12:1-2
I 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.

12. Romans 6:3-4
Or 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.

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

14. 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?’

15. Job 38:1-6
Then the Lord answered Job out of the
whirlwind, and said:
“Who is this who darkens counsel
By 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.

16. 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

17. 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.

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

19. Phil 3:13-14
Brethren, 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.