Sharper Iron From Kfuo Radio

Rev. Matt Wietfeldt, Director of Admissions and the Christ Academy program at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, IN, joins host Rev. Timothy Appel to study Acts 7:17-43. Stephen continues his proclamation before the Sanhedrin by focusing on God’s grace shown through Moses. Though Pharaoh intended evil against the LORD and His people, the LORD worked it for good and used Pharaoh’s own daughter to raise Moses. When Moses acted violently as a deliverer before his commissioning, the people rejected him and he was forced to flee to Midian. Forty years later, the LORD called Moses in the burning bush to return to Egypt and bring His people out. Over and over, Stephen emphasizes that Moses is the one God called and the one through whom God worked, yet the people of Israel continually rejected Moses and turned toward idolatry. Stephen preaches this so that the Sanhedrin would recognize that they are following that same deadly path by rejecting Jesus and repent before it’s too late. “To the End of th