God will save me.
God is and always been in the business of saving us. He is attentive to our cry and in his time he will and has come to rescue us (Ps34:17-19). But, receiving and accepting that that rescue came from God has been a challenge for many. Sometimes God uses thee negative to fulfill his purpose in us (Ps138:8). The early church as soon as it began, began transitioning getting ready for the end of the days’ time. More and more people began to resist the doctrine of the rapture, as a sign of the end times. Persecution of the church escalated to ultimate heights. God’s promises of redemption have always withstood the test of times. For example, God promise David that he would establish one of his descents to reign in his kingdom and he did. He gave him Solomon and Jesus to reign (2Sa7:12-13). But many times, people refused to understand the mark of the times. Stephen, filled with the Holy Ghost found himself in a major resistance with people who did not understand the times they were in, and was accused of speaking against God and Moses (6:11).
Acts 7:24-27
24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
The Jews were very educated when it came to know their history and from where God brought them from. So, when Stephen began to detail and remind them of how God used Moses to deliver them, they got angry. When Moses became forty years of age it came into his heart to visit his people (Acts7:23). Now Moses did not have need to visit his people because he had it all while living in the palace. Paul tells us that it is God who puts it in us to do his will (Ph2:13). When Moses saw what was happening to his people he arose to his call, and he defended his brethren. He reacted to what was in God’s heart (Act7:34), he saw, heard they cry and came down to deliver them. Moses thought, that because of the history of the Jews that they would understand the promise of deliverance made to Abraham, but they did not.
Because God has a peculiar way of saving us, each uniquely designed to our lives we might not want to understand that this is the way he has chosen. For all things work together for a good to them who love God and are called (Ro8:28).
Palms 34:17-19
17 The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
Psalms 138:8
8 The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
2 Samuel 7:12-13
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.
Acts 7:23
23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
Philippians 2:13
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Romans 8:28
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.