Acts 7:35-60

The Most High does not live in houses made by men. (Acts 7:48 NIV)

Christianity has become a tremendous buildup of things which were
not at the beginning. The Christianity which we know today is a very complicated
thing. The hands of men have come upon the things of God, and men have tried to
build this great thing according to their own judgment. And so we have...

The Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. (Acts 7:48 ISV)

What Stephen saw, and what is stated, intimated, and implicit in the New
Testament (a monumental document on the matter is "the Letter to the Hebrews"),
was that Solomon was – at most – but a figure of a greater "Son," and his
temple, with all its glory, wealth, and beauty, was only a pointer...

“Look, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing in the place of honor at God’s right hand!” Then they put their hands over their ears and began shouting. They rushed at him and dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. (Acts 7:56-58 NLT)

You and I, on the broadest basis of the Christian life, are here... to
represent a check; and because we are here for that, we shall be...

We who worship by the Spirit of God are the ones who are truly circumcised. We rely on what Christ Jesus has done for us. We put no confidence in human effort.
(Philippians 3:3 NLT)

In the New Testament circumcision is regarded as spiritual and inward. Paul
said it quite emphatically, “Neither is that circumcision which is outward in
the flesh... circumcision...

Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of
God! (Acts 7:56 ISV)

One, perhaps supreme, factor in the significance of Stephen was what he saw
at the end and said with almost his last breath: "Behold, I see the heavens
opened; and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God" (Acts 7:56). Here we
have the central and basic...

The Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. (Acts 7:48 NLT)

Christendom is largely constituted by this [aesthetic] sense – its architecture, its
ritual, its music, its adornment, its lighting (or lack of it), its tone, its
atmosphere, its vestments and so forth. All are of the soul.... Spiritual death
marks that realm, and while there may be intense...

Wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) into My name, there I AM in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20 AMP)

Jesus, as the Truth, is
contrasted with Satan, the liar. But He is also contrasted with all
representations, types, symbols, outward forms, etc., which were – and are – not
the true, the real. When our Lord spoke of His body as the Temple,...