Bible
message from Acts 17:
A
university lecture? The philosophers of
Athens were interested to hear anything! So Paul was invited to deliver his
point of view.
He acknowledged their religiousness, but
one of the worship alters he saw summed up the major problem among them:
“ To the unknown god” !! - was it set up just in case they had missed a
god, or was it indicating God as unknowable?
In reality it expressed the fundamental issue – in all their worshipping,
they didn’t know the true and living God.
…….same
problem today.
The
creator God is greater than man made idols, greater than temples or cathedrals.
The LORD God does not depend on priests or philanthropists. He is the maker, the giver of life, the sovereign
who personally interacts and interrupts in the affairs of humanity.
Besides
coming to us in various ways, He invites us to “seek after God and perhaps feel
our way toward Him and find Him – though He is not far from anyone of us.” (Acts 17:27).
God
is spirit not stone, and is able to respond to our spiritual quest seeking the ‘higher
power’.
God
is just and good – all the time. But that includes judgement. Each of us are
accountable to Him.
God
has appointed a special judge. It is the man Christ Jesus who as man
understands humanity and as Son of God has the official right to judge the
world.
God
raised Jesus from death, and in His rising there is both forgiveness for all
who truly believe in Him, and punishment for all who do not obey the Gospel.
That
day some believed, some procrastinated, some laughed!
Where
are you today?
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