What is true religion? It is the exact opposite of all this. Our Lord was put to death because He exposed that kind of belief, and here Stephen was on trial for his life because he was exposing it also in his own way. What are the characteristics of true religion? First, true religion is based entirely and exclusively on God’s revelation and teaching. The forty-fourth verse is so vital here: “Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he [God] had appointed, speaking unto Moses,
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